Keynote Presentation to iPhoto Book

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Keynote Presentation to iPhoto Book

I am giving a very important presentation to some of my executives, using Apple Keynote. I would like to bind the presentation for them into a book. I got to thinking that maybe the easiest way to do this would be as an iPhoto book. As anyone tried this? What dimensions do I need to use for a landscape-formatted book?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9), 2 GB RAM

Posted on Mar 16, 2007 4:33 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Mar 16, 2007 8:40 PM in response to Michael Hyatt1

Michael:

The iPhoto books are 8.5 . 11. One way you can create a book from the presentations slides would be to do a Print to PDF and select the Send PDF to iPhoto option. That will create a high resolution jpg of each "page"/slide and import into iPhoto. Then create a book using a theme with a one photo per page layout and put one slide on a page. If you can't do Print to PDF then maybe there's another way to make a jpg or other image file of each slide and import into iPhoto.

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Answer 2

Mar 18, 2007 9:32 AM in response to Old Toad

I just figured out how to do this. To avoid the low resolution symbol in iPhoto, follow these steps:

1. In Keynote, go to the Document Inspector.
2. In slide size, select Custom Slide Size.
3. Enter 2048 x 1572. This is double the standard size of 1024 x 768. This will in effect increase the resolution of each slide.
4. Export the slides you want to use directly into iPhoto by selecting File | Export | Images. May sure that you have selected "Export Images into iPhoto." You can use any format you want. I have tested them all. Just make sure that the "Quality" slider is at 100%.
5. Click on the Next button. Keynote will then export whatever slides you selected directly into iPhoto and you can create your book as you normally would.

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Answer 3

Mar 18, 2007 10:56 AM in response to Michael Hyatt1

One small correction. If you want your slides to fit exactly on the iPhoto Book page, you will want to make your Keynote slides to be 2200 x 1700. This is a ratio equivalent to the 11" x 8½" page size of the large formatted books.

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