With the introduction of Live Video objects in the Keynote 11.2 update, it’s now a snap to move beyond simple screenshots of your app concepts with an integrated, live view of an attached iOS device’s screen – perfect for integrating live Prototypes or Demos directly into your presentation.
In our latest tutorial, we walk through all the basics of configuring your demo device as a Live Video Source and bringing your prototypes to life directly on your slide.
The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote & Pages 11 arrived in March, further refining the latest generation of Apple’s presentation and publishing apps and continuing the evolutions unveiled with the launch of the Keynote & Pages 10.x cycle in 2020.
The latest iWork apps continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern, second-era lineage. If you’re already up-to-date with Keynote or Pages 10.x, the upgrade to Keynote or Pages 11 should feel largely familiar outside of new features & UI enhancements, with no major changes to general workflow.
The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote and Pages 10 arrived on March 31st, further refining the latest generation of Apple’s presentation and publishing apps and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Keynote 6 and Pages 5. Keynote and Pages for iOS are updated as well, also to version 10.0, adopting most of the same core features of the desktop updates and continuing to add full feature-parity with the desktop apps.
As with last year’s updates, most of the notable new features this cycle have come to both apps in parallel, including a new Theme / Template Chooser experience, expanded Sharing options, as well as Drop Cap support, new (and updated) built-in Themes and Templates, and a few new Font choices as well.
Throughout 2019, ePUB Book Templates have been the most frequently requested addition to our Pages Templates systems. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve started to integrate new ePUB Template packs as Add-Ons to our template systems: downloads for Vienna for Pages and Inductor for Pages are available today, and additional systems will be coming online in the weeks ahead.
We’ve largely followed the approach Apple established in the Books sub-tab on the Pages template chooser – with Portrait-style templates designed for traditional, text-oriented reflow/adaptive ePUB books, as well as fixed-layout Landscape templates that provide a more ePUB-optimized variation of each system’s Horizontal Brochure template (available in the Pro Edition downloads).
If you’re new to working with ePUB, you’ll want to have a look at Apple’s Support Article on Creating/Exporting ePUB Books in Pages for more detailed information on what is & isn’t supported in each format, along with tips on publishing your eBooks to your iCloud account or directly to the Apple Books Store.
We’ll be posting update packs for the back catalog on a rolling basis moving forward – keep an eye on the Updates table on our homepage or Support page for more information as it’s available.
Our Upgrade Report is freshly updated with a deeper look at the new Keynote 9.1 & Pages 8.1 Updates – including new Advanced Text Fills, Face Detection-Aware Cropping, new Inline Objects for Keynote, plus the return of Page-Level Copy & Paste to Pages. https://www.keynotepro.com/support/Keynote9-Pages8-Update_04092019.html
The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote 9 and Pages 8 arrived on March 29th, further refining the latest generation of Apple’s presentation and publishing apps and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Keynote 6 & Pages 5. Keynote and Pages for iOS are updated as well to version 5.0, adopting many of the same core features of the desktop updates and continuing to add increasing feature-parity with the desktop app.
With the architectural reboot of the previous cycles now firmly in the rear-view mirror, Keynote 9 and Pages 8 continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern lineage. If you’re already up-to-date with Keynote 8 or Pages 7, the upgrade to Keynote 9 & Pages 8 should feel very familiar, with no major changes to general workflow or the underlying theme / template architectures. All of our currently-shipping NXT-generation themes and templates should perform as expected in the new apps.
Smart Calendar Templates are now available as an update to Verge for Pages: a mix of photo & planning calendars in the signature Verge layout styles, just change a date field & the Smart Calendar does the rest.
The latest generation of Pages – Pages 7 – arrived in March, further refining the latest generation of Apple’s signature publishing app and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Pages 5. As we noted in our latest Upgrade Report, Pages 7 adopted a number of exciting new features this generation – and we’re now pleased to announce the release of our first wave of updates tailored especially for the latest architectural & workflow revisions that came along with the Pages 7 release.
As we first hinted at in our Upgrade Report, the re-introduction of Page Masters is something of a seismic shift in the Template Architecture landscape, offering major improvements to authoring workflow & ease-of-use, particularly when it comes to mobile authoring & complex document types like Brochures or Newsletters. Longtime or even casual users of Keynote will find the process of constructing & editing a Page Layout document very familiar now, and Pages ‘09 authors will finally feel right at home in the transition back toward a more Constructive authoring paradigm.
In many ways, Pages 7 is the long-awaited true successor to Pages '09: the core workflow that made Pages such a joy to use in the first place is not just back – it’s better than ever before. If you’re new to Pages since version 5.x, you’re going to be in for a real treat when you settle into the new workflow. But if you’re one of the surprising number of Pages '09 holdouts we’ve heard from over the last year while we’ve worked to forge a way forward from the Classic-Era Pages model, Pages 7.x is the proverbial droid you’ve been looking for.
The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote 8 and Pages 7 arrived on March 27th, further refining the latest generation of Apple’s presentation and publishing apps and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Keynote 6 & Pages 5. Keynote and Pages for iOS are updated as well to version 4.0, adopting many of the same core features of the desktop updates and continuing to add increasing feature-parity with the desktop app.
With the dust of the architectural reboots largely settled during the apps’ maturation through the Keynote 7 / Pages 6 lines, Keynote 8 and Pages 7 continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern lineage. Pages is the clear stand-out in this cycle, with notable improvements on the Authoring Experience front when it comes to Page Layout documents - including the return of Page Masters - and solidly closing the gap on all but a few absent features in the Pages ‘09 vs Pages 6.x evolution.
If you’re already up-to-date with Keynote 7 or Pages 6, the upgrade to Keynote 8 & Pages 7 should feel minimal at the outset, with no major changes to architecture or general workflow. And if you’re just now making the break from the classic iWork '09 workflow, you may be in for a pleasant surprise in terms of how far the new apps have come the last few cycles.
For the last several years, we’ve used our iOS QuickLaunch functionality to deliver starter files with pre-applied themes to our customers using Keynote for iOS. Thanks to recent updates, we’re now able to leverage that functionality on native .kth theme files themselves, allowing us to initiate installation of our themes directly into your Keynote for iOS Theme Chooser from the KeynotePro website.
If you’ve ever used our QuickLaunch process to get a theme onto your iOS device, the updated Direct Install process will be very familiar - but rather than ending up with a single instance of the theme pre-applied to a new .key file in Keynote for iOS, you’ll now end up with a desktop-like native theme experience, with the theme appearing in the My Themes tab of the Theme Chooser that appears when you create a new document (shown above). It’s a big, big improvement over the old QuickLaunch workflow - and goes a long way toward providing a more consistent experience between desktop & mobile authoring scenarios moving forward.
