How to convert a Keynote Presentation into a PDF in Python

Trying to work with Mac-based file formats on a Windows or Linux system is a sure ticket to a painful time. The typical solution to this problem generally isn’t much better — setting up a method for format conversion. This can quickly eat up an afternoon in a whirlwind of frustration. And that’s why I am here before you today, to give you a way out. I am about to show you how to implement such a conversion method into your project in but a few minutes.

To begin, we will install the package we need to use.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now we can call our API function that will perform the conversion between .KEY and .PDF.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Convert Keynote Presentation (KEY) to PDF
api_response = api_instance.convert_document_keynote_to_pdf(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convert_document_keynote_to_pdf: %s\n" % e)

Done!