Apple ’s iPad - ified iWork apps are in general praised for theirpolish and functionality . But one place these apps , particularly Keynote , can strike myopic is when spread out a text file imported from their desktop counterparts . Specifically , import a Keynote presentation can often reave vital data point out of the written document .

If you demand to wrap up a Keynote presentment on your iPad and maintain things like arrange and images , Apple has a new documentation written document just for you .

Keynote for iPad : salutary practicesdoesn’t quite turn over into industry secrets like how to properly pace your presentation or “ for the love of all thing holy : halt using Comic Sans . ” But it does cover some cosmopolitan rules for assure that the Keynote display you crafted on your Mac will still look and bear the same way when you continue working on it with your iPad . Apple recommend specific themes , a coast sizing , fonts common to both platforms , superior lantern slide types , and trope data formatting that will not get lose in version from Mac to iPad .

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Apple also linksthis support documentthat plow how to reduce PDF file size of it with Mac OS X ’s Preview app if you absolutely must use PDFs in your presentations .

It ’s nice to see Apple help iPad users to Keynote better on - the - go , but I wonder if the other iWork apps for iPad could benefit with their own “ beneficial practices ” Commerce Department . I ’ve heard of arrange problems when transferring Pages doc from Mac to iPad , and I ’m sure phone number might have some similar issues to describe for .

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