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I'm currently using Keynote to layout a web design, but I've made my slide too short. When I try to resize my slide, all the text increases in size, destroying my layout.

So my question is, is there a way to resize my slide without resizing the text?

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How do you re-size your slides? – Michiel May 24 '12 at 5:59
@Michiel In Inspector > Document > Document > Slide Size > Custom slide size... Then increase the height. – Michael May 24 '12 at 13:40

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Keynote files are zipped XML files. I created some little Apple Script to resize keynote files.

Some caveats:

  • It always resizes all slides, no selection possible. Maybe you can export the slides you want to resize to another file and only resize this, afterwards merging it back.
  • It requires xsltproc which is not included in Mac OS X by default. Choose between
    • Install XCode (from Mac App Store, command line tools only are fine, too) or
    • Install libxslt, eg. using homebrew: brew install libxslt

Though I don't believe the script could mess anything up, please do a backup before applying it!

Download keyresize.zip to fetch the script.

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