Steven Kovar - Interactive Designer

Keynote ‘09 - “View Package Contents”

April 15, 2009

I’ve always thought that one of the cool things about Keynote was that you could right-click on a file and “view package contents”, which allowed you to see all of the imported items in your keynote like you would a normal folder in Finder. There are a lot of reasons why this is useful, one of which is tracking down image sizes in the event that an image is oversized, causing bloat in your Keynote file size. I’ve also used it to quickly swap out images that needed a slight update or revision.

With Keynote ‘09, the option by default has been removed. No worries… in KN ‘09 preferences, select, “Save new documents as packages” and all new presentations will be saved as a package. For files that were saved without this option checked, you can save them back to ‘08, then open in ‘09 and save again to save your presentation as a package.

Update

According to a discussion on Apple Support, another way is to add the extension “.zip” to your file, then double-click to unzip it, then change the extension of the folder you’ll see to “.key”, and you’ll have an ‘09 Keynote package.

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