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Apple Posts iWork for iOS Beta 4, iBooks 1.3.1 Update
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I want to know if iWork for iOS will ever have feature parity with iWork for Mac OS. My biggest complaint with iWork for iOS is the shortcomings relative to their "big siblings".
Now, I can understand that the full desktop versions might have some more advanced features, but I'd like to see some of the more basic aspects brought in.
Landscape mode in Pages
Page Layout mode for Pages
Text in text blocks wraps around wrapping objects
Etc.
Etc.
Now, I can understand that the full desktop versions might have some more advanced features, but I'd like to see some of the more basic aspects brought in.
Landscape mode in Pages
Page Layout mode for Pages
Text in text blocks wraps around wrapping objects
Etc.
Etc.
Looked at LaTeX and that is too complicated. I would say that 90% of the scientific community couldn't care less about a program if they need to go through all these webpages first to learn how it goes. And does it solve the issue with placement of figures...? Don't get me wrong, its a great idea but not ripe yet for everyday and everywhere use.
Pages has landscape mode. Love it on my iPad.
Who knows? Someday it could have most of the desktop features. Sure is better than word on my iPad or for that matter any flavor of tablet...... oh that's right.
Maybe some of you people should try pages on your iPads, etc. I have actually brought in quite a few of my business templates in and the formatting /styles work very nicely. Of course, not all the fonts are found on the iOS version yet
but the major ones are.
When icloud is activated my use of pages, keynote and numbers will be made tenfold easier.
iBooks purchased are only readable on an iOS device
I was amazed to learn just how many folks are furious about this limitation that Apple's FairPlay 2 DRM encryption of iBooks purchased on iTunes with a MacBook, are only readable on an iOS device.
One of the many, many threads loaded with comments by frustrated and furious people on this issue is
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2427314?start=105&tstart=0
I was amazed to learn just how many folks are furious about this limitation that Apple's FairPlay 2 DRM encryption of iBooks purchased on iTunes with a MacBook, are only readable on an iOS device.
One of the many, many threads loaded with comments by frustrated and furious people on this issue is
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2427314?start=105&tstart=0
Okay, are we talking about landscape screen mode, or landscape print mode? I know it has landscape screen mode. What I want is to be able to set up a document to print in landscape orientation. Now, if there's some way to do that that you know of, don't just say "Pages has a landscape mode", explain how to turn it on, as I've been through the settings forward and backward and haven't found such a thing.
Pages has landscape mode on the iPad. We're talking about it getting landscape mode on the iPhone, where it currently only works in portrait.
And you're talking about landscape screen mode, not landscape printing mode. I know it has a landscape screen mode. That's how I use it on my iPad. I want to be able to create a document that will print in landscape orientation. You can do it in Numbers, but not Pages.
We're talking about WYSIWYG editors here... of course there are Nisus Writer and Mellel, for instance, but the point still is, that if Apple want's iWork to be an actual competitive office suite (both on OS X and iOS) that could be used for work, not only for making "missing cat" signs, it needs to start innovating some features that others have implemented years ago. I sincerely hope they can do that, as working in Pages is otherwise so much smoother than in other WYSIWYG text editors.
I think the LaTeX post was specifically about scientific community and yes, something like Lyx could be used if one can invest the time (once per type of document) in coming up with a latex template.
My pet peve with IOS iWork is that even the file formats aren't the same. So, I can't create a file in IOS and just continue on the desktop and swap back again. Not without conversions to and fro.