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1. #PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE MAC OS#
2. #PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE PDF#
3. #PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE INSTALL#
4. #PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE WINDOWS#

#PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE MAC OS#

Pro Tip: I’ve been writing about MacOS X and its many great programs since before Mac OS 9, so please do check out my extensive Mac help pages while you’re here on the site.

#PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE PDF#

Of course, not every single PDF file will reduce as dramatically and some won’t shrink at all, but just about every time I’ve used this feature, it’s helped make my files smaller and more easily shared. That’s a savings of about 85% which is something every single recipient of your handouts will appreciate. That is a sweet savings! We went from 100MB to 15.4MB with about 30 seconds worth of effort. Now let’s have a look at the Get Info window of the new shrunk PDF: Choose that, give the new PDF document a different name to the original and save it. And the choice we want for this task, highlighted: “ Reduce File Size“. Okay, click to open up the menu and check out those glorious options:Ĭool choices, eh? Not sure when you’d want Sepia tone unless you’re creating ye olde pdf documenty, but otherwise, pretty cool stuff. So there are a bunch of really useful Quartz filters that are hidden, like at this spot in Preview.

#PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE WINDOWS#

Quartz is the render engine that the overall Mac windows system uses and it’s also utilized for working with PDF documents. The secret is in the “ Quartz Filter” menu. So export it is!Ī window pops up with no clue how you can reduce the PDF file: You wouldn’t think of exporting a PDF from another PDF but that’s how you can gain access to the key control. You can almost always do this by simply double-clicking on the file. To shrink it down, open it up in Preview. It’s 51 pages and takes up 100.9MB on disk. I have the “More info” open because it’s interesting to view too, showing details like the number of pages and the (odd) resolution of the document too. To test this I have a Keynote-produced handout for a digital marketing class I’m teaching, and as the Get Info window shows, it’s pretty darn massive: That program is… Preview! Yes, it’s one of the many programs on your Mac that has a lot more capabilities than you probably realize. There are a lot of third party PDF management tools, but it turns out that a program included with MacOS X can shrink your PDF files pretty darn well all by itself. This can result in enormous PDF files that are tens or even hundreds of megabytes in size, way too big for most purposes. The problem is that by default the entire system was designed to capture printable documents, which means that generally speaking the docs are huge because images and any custom content is at print resolution, rather than screen display resolution. Still, I hope someone comes up with a smoother solution.Everyone has grown to love – well, tolerate – PDF files when you want something to look consistent across platforms, operating systems and distribution channels. Having selected all those slides, you can change the format back to what you want (like 4:3) and it should scale them up accordingly. You can select all slides and chose an appropriate background, like plain white, for example. Create a new Keynote and adjust the page dimension in the document settings to this size. With a "good" PDF, the size issue should be solved.Įdit 2: A workaround for the second issue is to pull one page into your keynote and then select the PDF on that new page and check its size under "format". I hope some commenters can fix those issues!Įdit 1: tuns out the size issue was due to the PDF I used. you cannot seem to customize the importing process: in my case, the PDFs were centered on the new slides, but wouldn't fill the page.

#PDF TO KEYNOTE CONVERTER MAC FREE INSTALL#

Non ideal solution: install poppler brew install poppler