Hi Rob, sounds like weird.. I had zero problems in the more than 8 years I have been working with it day in day out for presentations (up to 6Gb document once) and lately the guides that took only 300Mb on the master document…
But yes, I do back up regularly. ;-) thanks Regarding the bandwidth issue with the background… i will see what I can do. thanks a lot Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 12 Aug 2014, at 20:38, Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com> wrote: > Keynote... can I strongly advise to make regular backups. a colleague, (hi > Jo!) Was crunching final hours in the early morning on his presentation when > was low on disc space , it crashed, and his file was empty from then onwards. > Quick digging online revealed it was not uncommon either! So save version > numbers :) > > Also, can I make a small request for lighter weight pdf version. I think that > the version you are outputing so far has a giant bitmap background per page > and is really inefficient use of bandwidth. It's like PowerPoint rather than > a real optimized pdf creation tool , but just plain text with illustrations > should be way smaller than what yours are ending up in file size. > > Still, don't want to seem ungrateful as what I have read so far is very > usefull indeed! > > On 12 Aug 2014 19:49, "Jordi Bares" <jordiba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been using Apple's Keynote, actually it is so efficient I would love > to carry on using it but I am afraid it is going to have to be ported to > either InDesign or iBook Author. > > My feeling is that the lower common denominator (PDF) is what I have already > so feels like doing the work again to do the same again… I rather add some > really valuable stuff on it don't you think? > > Unfortunately iPad is the only platform that works as it should so I am > against the wall there… :-P > > Jordi Bares > jordiba...@gmail.com > > On 12 Aug 2014, at 18:49, Michael Clarke <m...@bluecstudios.com> wrote: > >> I’m doing some interactive PDFs and rich media works OK. Just OK, though. >> >> Jordi — what are you using to lay out the pubs. Have you considered using >> Adobe DPS? >> >> Michael Clarke Design >> Blue C Studios >> 713-927-9835 >> >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 12:43 PM, <pete...@skynet.be> <pete...@skynet.be> wrote: >> >>> >... don't do it exclusively for the ipad... >>> > Remember you can read pdfs in the ipad, and also on the droids. >>> >>> this. >>> >> >