KNOWLEDGEBASE - ARTICLE #1891

Sending a graph (or layout) to Keynote 6.0 - 6.5 doesn't work.

The Send button (and command) in Prism is intended to let you send a graph or layout to Keynote or Powerpoint in one click.

What is supposed to happen: If that application isn't running, Prism launches it. Prism then provokes the creation of a new slide, changes its background to matches the page background in Prism, and then inserts the current graph or layout onto that slide.

This command simply does not work with Keynote starting with version 6.0 (released in October 2013) and continuing up to Keynote 6.5 (released in early 2015).  Prism is able to launch Keynote, if it isn't already running, but is not able to instruct Keynote to make a new slide or accept the graph. It is not possible for us to fix Prism to make this work; the fix will have to come from Apple improving/fixing AppleScript. Apple did this, and Keynote 6.6 works fine with Prism 7.

The work around is to create the new slide manually, copy the graph or layout to the clipboard in Prism, and then paste into Keynote. 

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