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Apple Keynote: export presenter notes. This version accounts for skipped slides.
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-- HOWTO: | |
-- after saving it, open with Script Editor (default) and run it | |
-- PREREQUISITES: | |
-- make sure your Keynote presentation is open in the background | |
-- AFTER EXPORT: | |
-- if you can't open the file due to encoding errors, open with Sublime (or another a text editor) and then "File / Save with encoding / UTF8" | |
tell application "Keynote" | |
activate | |
-- open (choose file) | |
tell front document | |
-- Get the name of the presentation. | |
set thePresentationName to name | |
-- Retrieve the titles of all slides. | |
set theTitles to object text of default title item of every slide | |
-- Retrieve the presenter notes for all slides. | |
set theNotes to presenter notes of every slide | |
-- Retrieve the skip status for all slides. | |
set theSkipStatus to skipped of every slide | |
end tell | |
end tell | |
set presenterNotes to "" | |
set actualSlideNumber to 0 -- Counter for actual slide number (excluding skipped slides) | |
repeat with a from 1 to length of theTitles | |
-- skip slides with empty notes and slides set as skipped | |
if not (item a of theNotes) = "" and not (item a of theSkipStatus) then | |
set actualSlideNumber to actualSlideNumber + 1 | |
set presenterNotes to presenterNotes & "#### Slide " & actualSlideNumber & return & return | |
set presenterNotes to presenterNotes & item a of theNotes & return & return | |
end if | |
end repeat | |
set the clipboard to presenterNotes | |
do shell script "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pbpaste > ~/Downloads/keynote-notes-" & quoted form of thePresentationName & ".md" | |
-- based on http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136118/how-to-print-full-presenter-notes-without-slides-in-keynote |
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