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Apple iWork Screenshots

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gee-look-it-processes-words dept.

applextrent submitted a story with a bunch of screen shots of Apple's new iWork package, including Keynote 2 and Pages, the new Apple word processor. Nothing particularly surprising here.

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  1. Apple Screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    A little bird told me that Apple posted their own screenshots. http://www.apple.com/iwork/

  2. Re:Updating? You mean releasing... by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative
    Would you care to tell me what package is being "updated" by iWorks?

    Keynote?

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  3. Re:Updating? You mean releasing... by nazgul000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    iWork isn't by any means an entirely new software package. Keynote is of course an existing product, though updated here to a new version.

    More interestingly, Pages (the word processor) appears to be an update of a software package of the same name that was released for NeXT in 1994 by a company called Pages Software. So here we have yet MORE benefits of the NeXT purchase, albeit delayed by 8 years...

    From the linked 1994 NeXTWorld article: The software, three years in the making, takes a new approach to word processing that doesn't include such conventional tools as rulers, font panels, and style sheets. Pages is being positioned as an easy-to-use word processor in light of NeXT's de-emphasis on publishing and a lack of available word-processing software for NEXTSTEP.

    "The early view of the product was that it was more of a publishing product," said Larry Spelhaug, CEO of Pages Software. "Internally, we always assumed that it would have full word-processing capability but that wasn't perceived outside the company."

    Pages' extensive feature set, roughly equivalent to the latest versions of WordPerfect and Microsoft Word, was entirely implemented in object-based code. The software uses design templates to ease document creation."

  4. Re:Does the suite the OASIS-format or not? by neuroklinik · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, it took me about three clicks from Apple's home page to get to http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/compatibility.htm l.

    Oh yeah, and Keynote's file format is XML, and it's very well documented here: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2067 .html.

  5. Re:Document Format by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    *yawn*.

    Of course someone knows. Apple, for one, know... and they've been kind enough to tell us all on their web site. At the URL http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/compatibility.htm l nonetheless.

    It'll save to RTF, PDF, DOC, HTML and Plain Text.

  6. Re:Format by PinkX · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you ever used Keynote?

    If both Keynote 2 and Pages uses the same principle on their document formats as the original Keynote, it's nothing but open.

    The Keynote documents (.key) are actually directories, not files, which have an XML file (presentation.apxl) and all the images, textures and data files used on it, on its original format (PNG, TIFF, etc.)

    So I don't see how could this be 'another propietary Office format'. Given the facts just mentioned anyone could potentially write a Keynote viewer for Linux or whatever OS he/she might choose (or think of a Keynote to Magicpoint converter). Even the transition effects could be somehow recreated using OpenGL, as they're also into the XML file.

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