SCREEEECH!!! Keynote to PowerPoint Isn't Working :-(
mara06 (2548 pencils) | Sat, 2008-01-19 20:01Client miffed, but understanding. Designer (moi) preparing to schlep her Mac laptop to the presentation tomorrow to run it from Keynote, since the yahoo (the client's volunteer audio/visual nerd, not the Web presence) looks to me like the kind of guy who kills laptops just by looking at them.
What'd I do wrong, I wonder?
And why oh why didn't I marry that rich guy with the boring car and the stupid laugh thirty years ago? Oy....
:-)
Mara
ps: All's well that ends well. Mac wins, hands down. The idiot volunteer has been pushed off a cliff (and his little dog , too). Whew. Yay.
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Mara
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http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/12/keynote.html?page=3
I know that steely IT glare anywhere. :) Hope you made it through the presentation?
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Dirt and Rust
Well, the idiot volunteer showed up at the last minute with a remote control for his projector that the speaker (my client) didn't want to use without rehearsal; I don't blame him, of course. I note with pleasure that this was pretty much the last straw for my client concerning the idiot volunteer, who is now officially toast.
The projector was positioned (by the idiot volunteer) such that if I ran the show as I designed it, only about a tenth of it would have been contained within the boundaries of the screen, so I had to sit there clicking it through in the smaller Navigator mode, with the slides distorted, like a plain old history teacher slide show, c. 1953. The client was gracious enough to me to say he was pleased by how well we worked together, but I thought the whole thing was just ghastly.
The idiot volunteer, who has very grubby, dirty hands with ragged fingernails, also kept insisting on grabbing my laptop by its vulnerable display, putting his fingers down hard on the display area, though I asked him nicely not to, as one might warn a child not to touch a hot stove. He got angry at this, saying I was being rude. This is the guy that some people in other countries point to when they say how disgusting Americans are. Note to my global friends: we think they're disgusting, too. If you know any Customs officials, encourage them to pull these boors aside at the airport for additional questioning for AS LONG AS THEY WANT.
The Keynote-to-PowerPoint conversion might work if I spent more time on it. Maybe some "themes" translate more smoothly than others.
Mara
Maybe you should have distracted the volunteer with something that would have demanded his full attention and been more his speed...such as a banana.
It's too bad that you had to endure such an idiot. Unfortunately, they're out there, thriving and teeming and waiting to force their presence on the undeserving.
ttfn!
3dogmama
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