.KEY File Format – Message type numbers

The type in each object’s MessageInfo (see IWA archives) says which message the payload is. Keynote keeps the mapping in its TSPRegistry and never writes it into the file. iWorkFileFormat read the registry out of the running programs (Keynote 6.0, Pages 5.0, Numbers 3.0) and cleaned the result up by hand; this page lists every number it found for Keynote: the shared frameworks’ numbers, which are the same in Pages and Numbers, and Keynote’s own. Apple has published none of it, and later versions of Keynote add numbers that are not listed here.

Messages named “Command…” or “…CommandArchive” are undo commands; the fields of the others are on document messages, slides, builds and transitions, text and styles and drawables. Some messages have more than one number: KN.SlideArchive is 5 and 6, KN.PlaceholderArchive 7 and 12, TSWP.StorageArchive 2001 and 2005, TSWP.TextualAttachmentArchive 14, 2004, 2007 and 2009, and TST.TableDataList 6005 and 6201. The registry does not say how the numbers of one message differ.