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// Open Script Editor and Export this as an Application
//
// Then drop a keynote file on it in the Finder and it will properly resize
// and rotate everything so the Keynote file becomes usable as a prototype
// in the iPhone keynote app
// rotateDocument exported function
//
// Accepts a Keynote document and will rotate
// all the slides and elements in the slide 90 degrees
// counterclockwise.
//
// Useful for demoing a Keynote document on an actual device because
// Keynote for iOS is landscape only and will not "play" a document
// in portrait
function rotateDocument(doc) {
height = doc.height()
width = doc.width()
doc.height = width
doc.width = height
rotateSlides(doc)
}
// rotateSlides exported function
//
// Accepts a Keynote document and will rotate
// all the elements in all the slides 90 degrees counterclockwise
function rotateSlides(doc) {
for (j in doc.slides) {
slide = doc.slides[j]
rotateSlide(doc, slide)
}
}
function rotateSlide(doc, slide) {
// When resizing the slide, Keynote tries to still fit
// all the elements in the new size, causing them to shrink.
// The growthFactor controls how much we grow the elements in the slide
// to compensate for that shrinking
growthFactor = 1.777777778
slideHeight = doc.height()
slideWidth = doc.width()
function moveLine(item) {
moveShape(item, false)
}
// moveShape is the workhorse of this script
// It will rotate, move, and resize the element in the slide
//
// The hasTextObject argument is a boolean that specifies whether
// the element passed in can have a textObject. For example,
// a shape can have text (like the text inside of a round rectangle),
// but lines don't have text.
function moveShape(item, hasTextObject) {
position = item.position()
originalX = position.x
originalY = position.y
width = item.width()
height = item.height()
// After rotating 90 degress, the Y axis becomes the X axis
// The yCenterOffset offsets the item from the center of the Y axis
// after it's been rotated
yCenterOffset = Math.round((width / 2 - ((slideWidth / 2) - originalX)) * growthFactor)
originalRotation = item.rotation()
item.rotation = originalRotation + 90
newWidth = width * growthFactor
newHeight = height * growthFactor
item.width = newWidth
item.height = newHeight
if (hasTextObject) {
text = item.objectText
originalSize = text.size()
text.size = originalSize * growthFactor
}
newWidth = item.width()
centerXTarget = (slideHeight / 2) - (newWidth / 2) - yCenterOffset
item.position = $.NSMakePoint(originalY * growthFactor, centerXTarget)
}
function moveText(item) {
moveShape(item, true)
}
function moveImage(item) {
moveLine(item, true)
}
for (i in slide.shapes) {
shape = slide.shapes[i]
moveShape(shape, true)
}
for (i in slide.textItems) {
text = slide.textItems[i]
moveText(text)
}
for (i in slide.lines) {
line = slide.lines[i]
moveLine(line)
}
for (i in slide.images) {
image = slide.images[i]
moveImage(image)
}
}
Keynote = Application("Keynote")
app = Application.currentApplication()
app.includeStandardAdditions = true
function openDocuments(docs) {
firstDoc = docs[0]
doc = Keynote.open(firstDoc)
rotateDocument(doc)
app.displayNotification(firstDoc.toString() + " finished converting")
}
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