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Apple iWork Screenshots
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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A little bird told me that Apple posted their own screenshots. http://www.apple.com/iwork/
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."
Well, it took me about three clicks from Apple's home page to get to http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/compatibility.htm l.
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Oh yeah, and Keynote's file format is XML, and it's very well documented here: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn206