c|net: Keynote causing problems for many
updated 11:40 am EST, Thu January 23, 2003
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01/23, 12:26pm |
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dubious at best
first of all, this is a cnet article about Apple, which immediately makes the objectivity questionable. secondly, nice source selection by using an Internet message board for your data collection. "Yikesboy" makes an excellent reference. ;P
the complaint about the PDF file size is valid only in the context that all PDF files created with OS X are large, and there's no control over that. that's obviously not a Keynote-specific problem, and not something to fault the application for. It's hardly a reason to fault the OS, as i think most people are happy just having such an easy method of creating a PDF file in the first place.
this "article" is almost like an MS sponsored smear campaign. cnet can stick it.
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01/23, 12:26pm |
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Printing???
Its a presentation package. Why are people printing?
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01/23, 12:26pm |
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hmm
my boss let me buy keynote but i have to use it on my Pismo because my destop at work doesn't have jaguar. i've been using keynote for about a week now and it hasn't crashed or brought down the OS and i've been playing with it heavily to test its capabilites.
actually i'm more pissed at how it makes all my graphics look fuzzier than they should and that if i save my presentations in ppt format then all the cool keynote effects i use look like c*** once i bring it back into powerpoint.
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01/23, 12:34pm |
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Hmmm...
No problems here so far (knock on wood). I'm actually giving my presentation next Wed. & Thurs, so I'll repost afterwards.
As for the quality when exporting back in to PPT, what did you expect? Keynote can't make PPT any better. Overall, I'm amazed at how well Keynote "dumbs down" the files so PPT can open them. Obviously, the high quality Keynote transitions are replaced by the antiquated PPT ones, but overall, the presentation comes through fine.
This product has a way to go before eclipsing PPT in features, but already outshines PPT in sheer quality of work.
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01/23, 12:35pm |
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hmm
my boss let me buy keynote but i have to use it on my Pismo because my destop at work doesn't have jaguar. i've been using keynote for about a week now and it hasn't crashed or brought down the OS and i've been playing with it heavily to test its capabilites.
actually i'm more pissed at how it makes all my graphics look fuzzier than they should and that if i save my presentations in ppt format then all the cool keynote effects i use look like c*** once i bring it back into powerpoint.
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01/23, 12:39pm |
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oh come on...
perhaps these people didn't hear the part about this app being built for steve himself, who always has access to the best computers and printers that apple has to offer. put this app on a dual 1.25 GHz machine, and i am sure it works great. next, people will be complaining about it not importing their macwrite files, and rattle off a complaint email via claris emailer via classic. ;-)
'course, i think the marketing gurus made a dumb@ss mistake when they quoted the system requirements so low on the website. way too optimistic, IMHO.
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01/23, 01:03pm |
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1.0
So basically it's front page news that Keynote 1.0 behaves pretty much how you would expect a 1.0 product to work. If you buy something the day it is released, sad to say, you should expect a few problems--especially with a borderline system. I don't know of any first release products that haven't had a bug fix releas in a short time. My Photoshop is at 7.0.1.
But of course, when Apple does the right thing and fixes the resported bugs, that won't be front page news. So it goes for everyones favorite punching bag.
(Holding off to test something until it has no bugs is a great theory. I worked for a company that tried it. They went out of business very quickly. The marketplace punishes slow shipping dates far worse than bugs.)
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01/23, 01:53pm |
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It's not the app.
It's the users. They simply lack Steve's touch.
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01/23, 01:54pm |
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Message board resources
Imagine if Cnet used all of the MS support discussion boards for any/everything they make and reported those as "news.". There wouldn't be enough web space available for all the "breaking news" items.
Nice going Cnet, great indepth reportage. You haven't anything better to do with your "play time" other than snooping around on Apple's discussion boards so, that you can gin up something as weak as this and then call it news? Give me a break... Yesterday, must have been a slow tech news day or we just hired Jr. out of HS for his first real story. You guys got editors over there that approve or disapprove running c*** like this. Guess not.
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oh come on...
perhaps these people didn't hear the part about this app being built for steve himself, who always has access to the best computers and printers that apple has to offer. put this app on a dual 1.25 GHz machine, and i am sure it works great. next, people will be complaining about it not importing their macwrite files, and rattle off a complaint email via claris emailer via classic. ;-)
'course, i think the marketing gurus made a dumb@ss mistake when they quoted the system requirements so low on the website. way too optimistic, IMHO.