Hi, I've released emkey 0.2, a simple post-processing tool for Keynote documents. As of now it might be particularly useful for people using Python code on Keynote slides, but it's easy to imagine additional features. Please see the full Readme for this first release below. Regards, Dinu emkey ===== Summary ------- emkey is an EmPy-based post-processing tool for Apple Keynote documents. Overview -------- emkey is a simple command-line tool for post-processing Apple Keynote documents. It currently imports external text snippets on single slides and can apply syntax color highlighting to them if these are Python source code. Basics ------ emkey works on the APXL [1]_ presentation file of a Keynote [2]_ document. Before using it you create a normal Keynote presentation document. EmPy [3]_ tags like ``@load("fibo.py", colored=1)`` on a slide will then be expanded during post-processing by emkey with the content of the respective file, with syntax highlighting for Python code if desired. The tool makes one backup of the APXL file before modifying it, and allows to revert to this backup after post-processing. History ------- :0.2: first release Requirements ------------ There are no special requirements for running emkey, except a Python interpreter 2.x [4]_, EmPy 3.x (3.3 included), copyrighted by Erik Max Francis and PyFontify (0.5 included), copyrighted by Just van Rossum. Licence ------- emkey is released under the GPL - see the included file, "GPL.txt". The included EmPy and PyFontify modules are licensed under the LGPL and the Python License, respectively. Download -------- The emkey distribution, including one Keynote sample document is available from: http://python.net/~gherman/emkey.html Notes ------ Thanks to Erik Max Francis and Just van Rossum who have kindly allowed to include EmPy and PyFontify respectively into the emkey distribution. Note, that there is no installation procedure by which you might risk to overwrite an existing EmPy or PyFontify. **Be careful when using emkey on Keynote documents! Remember to revert to the original version before re-editing the document with Keynote, again!** Future ------ In principle one could extend this tool to provide further kinds of post-processing capabilities on Keynote files, which, of course, needs intimate knowledge of the APXL files. Links ----- .. [1] http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2067.html .. [2] http://www.apple.com/keynote .. [3] http://www.alcyone.com/software/empy .. [4] http://www.python.org Author ------ Dinu Gherman, http://python.net/~gherman/Contact.html, 2003-10-31