PRESS RELEASE
January 7, 2003
Apple Unveils Keynote
Professional-Quality Presentations for Everyone
MARKHAM, Ontario—January 7, 2003—Apple® today unveiled Keynote™, a newgeneration of presentation software that brings the ability to createstunning, professional-quality presentations to everyone. Featuring Apple´slegendary ease of use, Keynote includes professionally designed themes,amazing typography, pro-quality image resizing, animated charts and tablesthat can be created in seconds, and cinematic-quality transitions. Availableimmediately for $159 (CDN), Keynote imports and exports PowerPoint,QuickTime® and PDF files to make creating and sharing presentations easierthan ever.
"Using Keynote is like having a professional graphics department to createyour slides," said Steve Jobs, Apple´s CEO. "This is the application to usewhen your presentation really counts."
Keynote includes 12 Apple-designed themes featuring coordinated backgrounds,fonts, colors, bullets, tables and charts. Users can change the theme oftheir presentation any number of times, modify an existing theme to theirliking, or create custom themes to give their presentations a totally uniquelook.
Keynote takes advantage of the Mac® OS X-only technology Quartz™ as well asOpenGL to create presentations with stunning, pro-quality graphic elementssuch as fully anti-aliased text, transparency, dynamic drop shadows andcinematic-quality transitions between slides. Users can easily drag-and-dropgraphics, digital photos, QuickTime movies and audio into their slides.Keynote´s alignment guides and rulers ensure that all text and graphicelements are placed precisely where users want them.
Keynote makes it easy to create impressive charts and tables in seconds.Users can choose from eight flexible chart types, progressively disclosechart and table information, and create unique animations, shadows andlabels on any chart or table. Chart and table data can be imported fromapplications such as Excel and AppleWorks® or organized directly inKeynote´s Chart Data Editor.
Keynote also makes managing large slide shows incredibly simple. Theinnovative slide Navigator gives users a quick visual overview of the wholeslideshow at all times. Slide thumbnails can be grouped into sections thatcan be collapsed or expanded, making it easy to see and organize the bigpicture. For text-oriented presentations, Keynote provides a text outlineview and speaker´s notes.
Pricing & Availability
Keynote is immediately available through the Apple Store®(https://www.apple.com/canadastore) and throughApple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $159 (CDN).Minimum system requirements include Mac OS X version 10.2 "Jaguar" (Mac OS Xv. 10.2.3 recommended), PowerPC G3 processor, 256MB RAM and 8MB video RAM.
Keynote is immediately available through the Apple Store®(https://www.apple.com/canadastore) and throughApple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $159 (CDN).Minimum system requirements include Mac OS X version 10.2 "Jaguar" (Mac OS Xv. 10.2.3 recommended), PowerPC G3 processor, 256MB RAM and 8MB video RAM.
Apple Canada Inc. is headquartered in Markham, Ontario and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple products are available at more than 450 Authorized Apple Canada Dealer locations across Canada.
- Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh,Keynote, QuickTime, Quartz,AppleWorks and Apple Store are either registered trademarks or trademarks ofApple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respectiveowners.