I've been making so many graphics in Keynote lately for use in videos and blog posts, but I really wish there was a quick keyboard shortcut to export the current slide as a PNG. Right now it takes about 9 clicks to export a slide.
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Well that was a massive fail. I tried it, but I don't think it can get into the specific bits needed to make that work in Keynote. Then it took over my computer and they keyboard and most clicks stopped working. Had to restart.
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I definitely can do it. As for stopping clicks from working, I actually can't do that, so I'm not entirely sure what happened. Ask on the forum (forum.keyboardmaestro.com/) if you need some help making the macro.

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Alright I will give it a try! forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/…

Export the Current Keynote Slide as a PNG

I use Keynote for creating graphics for various purposes, and I've found myself frustrated by the number of manual steps needed to export a single slide as a PNG image. I was pointed to Keyboard...

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That AppleScript is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! ✨ The only minor inconvenience is that it sets all slides to unskipped afterwards, but that's fine for how I'm using it in this case!
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Replying to @chris79 @keyboardmaestro
Yeah that's tricky, because if you don't skip all but the selected slide, then it exports all of them. Ideally there should be an AppleScript action for exporting only the selected slides, but I don't think that exists.

Dec 22, 2022 · 5:59 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @chris79 @keyboardmaestro
No. I wrote it in 3 years ago. At first, exporting as PDF....then split PDF's selected page on Keynote. It is pretty old script. You might have to do some modification.... piyocast.com/as/archives/657…
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