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Article:		Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint
Subject:		Just some helpful corrections
Date:		2003-09-14 06:57:14
From:		anonymous2
Great article. To make it clearer for the readers, I offer some corrections/suggestions. Cocoa applications typically use the Text Inspector for formatting text. To easily copyfit, there is a little-known slider widget that you can activate in the rightmost pane of the Text Inspector that lets you dynamically resize the text. The .key file "format" is indeed actually a directory behind the scenes, but the casual user wouldn't know it. Transferring files from one Mac to another is as easy as dragging the .key file. Don't worry about losing associated files or anything. Finally, the animations are called "builds" because you're talking about how and in what order the elements are built onto the slide. Not to be confused with "transitions", which direct how the slides switch from one to another. Your article lumps both of these instances into "transitions" which isn't precise.

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• Just some helpful corrections
  2003-09-15 22:39:00  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  >>animations are called "builds" because you're talking about how and in what order the elements are built onto the slide.
  
  also because for over 50 years the AV industry has called them that (might even go back to lantern slide presentations)

• Just some helpful corrections
  2003-09-14 13:20:43  Ian F. Darwin | [View]
  
  
  > Cocoa applications typically use the Text Inspector for
  > formatting text. To easily copyfit, there is a little-known
  > slider widget that you can activate in the rightmost
  > pane of the Text Inspector that lets you dynamically
  > resize the text.
  
  I presume you're talking about e.g., Show Fonts -> Extras -> Edit Sizes -> List and Slider, which is an option as you say in "[typical] Cocoa applications". Keynote provides something it calls the Text Inspector (see http://www.darwinsys.com/training/keynote/text-inspector.jpg if you don't have Keynote yet) which does not have this feature. BUT the one you're referring to is in fact found where you'd expect it, under Format -> Fonts -> Show Fonts. You'd also want to up the "Minimum" size there from 72 if you're using it for copy-fitting larger titles.
  
  So, thanks for the tip.
  
  Ian

• Just some helpful corrections
  2003-09-14 12:53:15  Ian F. Darwin | [View]
  
  
  I agree with yout that "the casual user wouldn't know" that a .key is a directory, any more than a .app is - that's one of the nice things about Mac OS - if it shows up in the finder, you can copy it with the finder (well, almost always).
  
  And I agree; could have been more clear about transitions vs builds.
  
  Ian