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File extension

.key

Category

Document File

Description

Files with a .key extension are created by Apple's "Keynote" application which forms part of Apple's iWork office suite, a set of applications which run on the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, and also includes Numbers (for spreadsheets) and Pages (for word processing).

Keynote began life in 2002 as an internal Apple tool developed for Steve Jobs to help him present at MacWorld. The first version was made available to the public in 2003 as Keynote 1.0 and was designed to compete with Microsoft's Powerpoint presentation software which formed part of Microsoft Office.

Designed to let users easily create, play and share presentations, Keynote contains most of the features found in modern presentation software, such as a slide navigator, the ability to add tables, shapes and charts to slides and a powerful media browser which allows users to drag and drop music from from iTunes, and photos from iPhoto and Aperture into their slides.

Keynote contains a large number of pre-designed themes to let users select common presentation formats, and powerful graphics tools to manipulate embedded images and provide advanced 3D transitions between slides (powered by OpenGL). The major Keynote releases are summarised below:

Version	Date	Key features
1.0	January 2003	First version - basic features - Import Powerpoint presentations, slide navigator, graphics support for rotations, resizing and opacity, charts and slide transitions.
2.0	January 2005	Released in iWork '05. Contained improved animations for slides and text, iLife media browser, new themes, more presenter controls, embedded hyperlinks and the ability to export presentations to Macromedia Flash.
3.0	January 2006	Released in iWork '06 with new themes, HD-capability, improved graphing and table features, cinematic transitions and 3D graphs.
4.0	August 2007	Released in iWork '08 with easier to use animation features, new templates, smart builds (for predefined animations), instant alpha (for removing backgrounds from photographs), and a new narration to add a voiceover to slideshows.
5.0	January 2009	Released in iWork '09. Contains support for MathType equations, a new share menu, trackpad support, "magic move" (for easier transitions), improved presenter tools, but removed support for exporting to Flash.
5.1	July 2011	Added support for Mac OS X Lion, and included support for full screen functionality, auto-save, resume and versioning. Also with improved compatibility with Microsoft Office.
5.2	July 2012	Support added for iCloud documents and Retina displays.
5.3	December 2012	Adds Keynote support for iOS 6.0
6.0	October 2013	Part of new iWork suite for Mac, with 64-bit support and iCloud syncing.
6.1	January 2014	Improved compatibility with Microsoft Powerpoint.
6.5	October 2014	Updated design of OS X Yosemite, iOS 8 and a new file format to improve support for 3rd party online services.

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Technical Details

Official file format specifications for iWork Keynote files are not published by Apple, but it is still possible to look at a developer document Apple released for iWork '05 file formats.

A .key file is actually a compressed ZIP file comprised of a number of other different files combined that together make up a .key file. The most recent version of Keynote saves files with an "Index" directory containing Apple's proprietary IWA file format, a "Metadata" directory with .plist files, a "Data" directory with image assets (e.g. backgrounds and photos used in slides) and one or more jpg files for allowing quick previews.

Files created by Keynote in iWork cannot be opened by programs other than iWork.

Associated programs

Apple iWork
Keynote 5.1
Keynote 5.2
Keynote 5.3
Keynote 6.0
Keynote 6.1
Keynote 6.2
Keynote 6.5

Developed by

Apple Inc

MIME type

application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey
application/vnd.apple.keynote

Useful links

Keynote details on Wikipedia
Keynote supported file formats
Ars Technica review of iWork '14
Tim Bray on the early history of the Keynote file format
Apple iWork product page
Keynote file format compatibility
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Using Zamzar it is possible to convert KEY files to a variety of other formats:

key to html (Hypertext Markup Language)
key to jpg (JPEG compliant image)
key to key09 (Apple iWork '09 Keynote Document)
key to mov (Apple QuickTime Movie)
key to pdf (Portable Document Format)
key to png (Portable Network Graphic)
key to ppt (Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)
key to pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Presentation)
key to tiff (Tagged image file format)

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File extension	.pdf
Category	Document File
Description	PDF is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is separate from the original operating system, application or hardware from where it was originally created. A PDF file can be any length, contain any number of fonts and images and is designed to enable the creation and transfer of printer-ready output.
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Technical Details	Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document (and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images and 2D vector graphics that compose the document. They do not encode information that is specific to the application software, hardware, or operating system used to create or view the document.
Associated programs	Adobe Viewer Ghostscript Ghostview Xpdf gPDF
Developed by	Adobe Systems
MIME type	application/pdf
Useful links	Adobe Reader (to view) Adobe Acrobat (to edit) Convert PDF file

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