What to do when you find that you can’t use ‘presenter view’ at a conference
by Iain on November 10, 2010
Just turned up at the CAT conference to find out that I can’t use ‘Presenter View’ in Keynote. This has happened before and I just winged it. But today I figured I could find a quick way to get everything onto my iPhone in a simple way that will work with any version of Keynote and doesn’t require any fancy apps…
So here’s what to do if you find yourself in a ‘can’t see my presentation notes’ kind of an emergency.
First, don’t panic…
Then hit ‘print’ in Keynote…
Your special friend is ‘save PDF to iPhoto’…
Then just go to iTunes and sync your photos…
And you’re done.
You now have a perfectly usable set of notes inside the ‘Photos’ app on your iPhone.
There might be a quicker way, but this felt like a pretty tight workflow in a sticky situation.
6 comments
Nice little workaround – sure lots of people have had that issue and this will give them a solution…
Of course, you could always do away with your notes (#4 of my top ten speaking tips, for what it’s worth):
http://mediasnackers.com/2010/07/my-top-ten-speaking-tips/ :-)
by DK on 10/11/2010 at 9:08 am. #
You can also download this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote-remote/id300719251?mt=8
Which lets you use your iPhone as a wireless remote and gives you a second display of your presentation and notes.
by Rob on 10/11/2010 at 3:55 pm. #
I’m pretty sure this solves it too:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/keynote-remote/id300719251?mt=8
:D
by Andy on 10/11/2010 at 5:20 pm. #
Not if it’s running on the conference computer.
Plus I’ve been burned by flaky conference wi-fi before.
And, yes, you could set up a wireless network from the computer, but I’ve had issues with that before too…
by Iain on 10/11/2010 at 5:36 pm. #
This is fab. Me and Ben Hammersley nearly did this today.
by Ben on 11/11/2010 at 10:52 pm. #
I always save a copy in my DropBox and then mark it as a favorite. Similar approach, slightly different work-flow.
by nuzzaci on 14/11/2010 at 10:40 am. #