Working on the bleeding edge will lead to some cuts every once in a while.  I report hereby one such situation for the convenience of those who may want to follow my advice regarding the the production of mp4 movies out of PP files using Keynote.

I have created my lecture podcasts recording Keynote presentations and converting them  to movies.  I also provide printed slides to my students as pdf files.  Keynote allows one to print presentations to pdf files.  They look great in the Mac Preview viewer.  They also look good in Acrobat 7 but not in Acrobat 8.  For some reasons the colors get mixed up when viewing the  files with Acrobat 8, the viewer that most people will use.  Text boxes containing text in black fonts appear randomly gray and become very hard to read. The files are not usable.

The remedy is to print first the slides (using Keynote's built in facilities) to ps files, and then to convert these ps files to pdf by Acrobat.  This is not convenient, but seems, unfortunately, necessary for the time being.

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