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Apple Publishes Keynote XML Schema

Posted by pudge on from the because-computers-are-just-too-fast dept.

grouchomarxist writes "Apple has published a technote on the XML file format (APXL schema) used by their new presentation application Keynote. They've also created a mailing list for those interested in writing Keynote tools." I am so there.

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  1. Adapt Axpoint to Keynote? by Void · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe one should fork the excellent-but-still-buggy-and-incomplete AxPoint system to be keynote compatible. For those that don't know axpoint: it's a perl module that generates nice PDF presentations from an xml file...

  2. Re:Is this unique? by Draoi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not that I'm aware of. However, there's nothing to stop you importing an existing .ppt file into Keynote & barfing it back out as the now-published xml file. Instant Powerpoint standardiser ... :-)

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  3. Re:Is this unique? by chipset · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's just one problem. The improt routine of KeyNote is not even close to being perfect. Every time I import one of the PPt presentations from work to use on my Mac, I spent 20 minutes cleaning things up. Some images don't come in, some things are changed, bullet points, etc.

    It certainly seems doable, but once it gets into Keynote, let the tweaking begin before you save it/export it.

    Chipset

  4. link by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Informative

    You got some gremlins in your URL.

    AxPoint

    While I'm here:
    Sample output
    Source File

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  5. The big picture by Aram+Fingal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if Keynote is just the first of a new suite to replace AppleWorks and if XML will make possible what OpenDoc failed to do. That is, make a fully modular office suite where you can mix and match, say a word processor from one developer and a spreadsheed from another and still have them work together as if they were integrated.

    OmniOutliner already exports to Keynote via XML. That's a good sign.