Keynote question

[Rose]

My thought is to burn quite a collection of collected reference text files.
If I use the Keynote structure for the files and an autorun in the CD root
referencing Keynote then will the files open and be visible on the CD?
If I want this to be a collection that I give to someone they would have to
have Keynote on their harddrive or is there a 'viewer or reader'?
I was reading the details on the TreePad site and there is reference to a
viewer.
To date I have just put the files in a directory but I have an imbedded
habit of the 8 character file name so the names are meaningful to me (likely
only me) so I make a title text file with brief explanations.
The lurking thought is to put all these tips and hints into an organized,
easily accessible format and if someone else could borrow or have the cd it
would be an easy use reference.
Has anyone used Keynote in this manner?

 

[-½cut]

If I use the Keynote structure for the files and an autorun in the CD
root referencing Keynote then will the files open and be visible on
the CD?

It'll be a .knt file, and will pop up on the host computer ONLY if KeyNote
is already installed.
You could use the "export to HTML" function; index it with something like
Dir2HTML and autorun the index.html, thus popping up the default browser on
the host system. Ugly, but it'd work.

 

[Rose]

If I use the Keynote structure for the files and an autorun in the CD

root referencing Keynote then will the files open and be visible on
the CD?

-1/2cut wrote....
It'll be a .knt file, and will pop up on the host computer ONLY if KeyNote
is already installed.
You could use the "export to HTML" function; index it with something like
Dir2HTML and autorun the index.html, thus popping up the default browser on
the host system. Ugly, but it'd work.

I thought about that. I had started transferring (by hand)all the collected
files into html pages. I had made some templates and since its text its no
big deal to copy, paste, do some extra html code formatting and insert that
title into the html index. The end result is like a web page. Of course, the
desire for INSTANTLY completed has seeped into the conscious as a result of
all the current technology and utilities. Perhaps I'll just continue to have
that task as a winter project.
Thanks for the input.
Rose

 

[Neowulf]

My thought is to burn quite a collection of collected reference text files.

If I use the Keynote structure for the files and an autorun in the CD root
referencing Keynote then will the files open and be visible on the CD?
If I want this to be a collection that I give to someone they would have to
have Keynote on their harddrive or is there a 'viewer or reader'?

Well, you can download the Keynote file format and make your own
viewer.

I do have experience adding a collection of reference text files, and
Keynote chokes if the file gets too big. Okay, so they were Project
Gutenburg texts--not likely that we're dealing with the same file
sizes.


Aaron


P.S.
KeyNote ROCKS, D00D!!!

 

[-½cut]

I do have experience adding a collection of reference text files, and
Keynote chokes if the file gets too big.

I have also blown up KeyNote with Project Gutenberg texts. I found that -
provided they are virtual nodes- KeyNote does OK with everything except
those 100Mb gene-maps....and I'm only running a PII-400 with 128Mb RAM. If
you have your texts in 'regular' nodes (ie, part of the .knt file rather
than just referenced by it) then KeyNote explodes much quicker.