Aaron Parecki

that's.... ridiculous and fantastic

@aaronpk years ago, I wrote a little script that automatically converted a Keynote deck into individual PDF files (one per slide, vector, scalable) and then created a PPTX file out of the result. Not editable, obviously, but a nice shortcut. Sadly, I can’t find the script anymore!

That’s a disaster of another sort.

unfortunately it's going into a deck with a bunch of other slides womp womp

I just refuse. You can have pdf if you (quite reasonably) don’t want keynote.

Keynote is just a better authoring environment than PowerPoint. And my choice of tool needs to be optimized for me, the author and not someone else’s desires.

i mean the conversion worked reasonably well, it just still takes a lot of fiddling to get things looking just right, since there's always something that goes wrong with font sizes or alignment and such

That's not what we want! What would make the experience better for you?