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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. "Nothing particularly surprising here" by chipster · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Is that a quote from CmdrTaco, or the author, Trent?

    If the former, *sigh*

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

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

  3. Does the suite the OASIS-format or not? by motown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So far, still nobody has been able to answer the question wether Apple's iWork suite will be using OASIS-compliant file formats or not.

    And even if hot: will iWork at least be able to import from and/or export to OASIS?

    Both OpenOffice and KOffice will be supporting OASIS and bringing Apple aboard will probably be crucial in order to establish a serious alternative to the Microsoft file format hegemony.

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    1. 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.

    2. Re:Does the suite the OASIS-format or not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And what about Ogg Vorbis? No one will buy this if it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis!

  4. Re:This does not belong here.. by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some of us care when someone (in this case Apple, in other cases Open Office, or KDE) releases software that challenges the dominant monopolist.

    I've seen articles on OpenOffice, AbiWord, and NeoOffice J. This article fits in with that theme.

    Do you have a particular anti Apple sentiment that makes this article particularly disturbing to you?

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  5. 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."

  6. Re:Office 2006 / Longhorn will copy by jo_ham · · Score: 5, Funny

    My MAC is 00:0d:93:ad:16:a4

    My Mac is a 15" Powerbook.

  7. It looks like you're writing an iLetter by WindFish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without Clippy, Pages just doesn't seem as user-friendly.