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iWork Updates are Here!!!!
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p0intblank said:I really want to try out iWork, but Apple doesn't have a free trial on their site.
Ask an Apple Genius. Or buy iLife. They didn't have iWork the day after the keynote at my AStore, but they had iLife. I used the iWork trial disc to buy a liscense
ccool2ax said:
Oh okay, that flew right past me.
$40 is hella cheap for software... I just may get it.
ccool2ax said:
Actually, Pages (and I believe Keynote as well) has an awful bug related to image correction. I don't know if this update fixes it, but I'm anxious to find out.
I've shifted about 50% of my Word use to Pages and appreciate the clean appearance of the design. I still use Word for some long documents & manuals that were started there, as well as some of the more complex tables I need from time to time. I think Pages will improve over time (the addition of auto-correction was a big one) and I'll move more work to it.
The biggest gap is, for me, a spreadsheet and hopefully that will come in the '07 version. Might be nice if they threw in a FileMaker Jr. with it and the other apps that will let it replace AppleWorks.
For a trial version of iWork find anyone who has a new Mac or a new copy of iLife 06 - a trial version comes with them and you can give it a go.
The biggest gap is, for me, a spreadsheet and hopefully that will come in the '07 version. Might be nice if they threw in a FileMaker Jr. with it and the other apps that will let it replace AppleWorks.
For a trial version of iWork find anyone who has a new Mac or a new copy of iLife 06 - a trial version comes with them and you can give it a go.
This is great! They've finally fixed a small, but long-standing punctuation problem in Pages: smart quotation marks immediately following an open bracket (" would face the wrong way, i.e. left toward the bracket rather than right toward the following quotation. It now works as it should. Now if they can just manage to get language specific punctuation working (like in Word), I'll be a very happy camper.
I've still got iWorks 05 and was waiting for 07, but these extras are making it look better and better. They include some of the things I have to go back to Appleworks for.
Can anyone please tell me if a problem I have with 05 is fixed? When copying something that is in a text box in Pages, the copied text box isn't as moveable as the original; it's got some black and some blue frame when highlighted, not all black like the original. Other than always using new text boxes does anyone know a way around this? I know the problem of the command key not working with keyboard viewer wasn't fixed with 06 but I don't know if the upgrade will help.
I still use Appleworks occasionally because it has mail merge and drawing features, some of which this new upgrade now supplies and I use InDesign for more complex stuff, but Pages is great, easy to use and getting better.
Can anyone please tell me if a problem I have with 05 is fixed? When copying something that is in a text box in Pages, the copied text box isn't as moveable as the original; it's got some black and some blue frame when highlighted, not all black like the original. Other than always using new text boxes does anyone know a way around this? I know the problem of the command key not working with keyboard viewer wasn't fixed with 06 but I don't know if the upgrade will help.
I still use Appleworks occasionally because it has mail merge and drawing features, some of which this new upgrade now supplies and I use InDesign for more complex stuff, but Pages is great, easy to use and getting better.
Bug in Software Update
I moved my iWork apps to a subfolder inside the Application folder. Software Update showed no updates available this morning. So I downloaded the standalone updaters, and they failed saying they couldn't locate any installations of iWork apps. As sooon as I moved the updates back into the Applications folder, and ran Software Update again, the updates showed.
I can't imagine the number of apps that aren't getting properly patched because of Apple's reliance on static locations.
I moved my iWork apps to a subfolder inside the Application folder. Software Update showed no updates available this morning. So I downloaded the standalone updaters, and they failed saying they couldn't locate any installations of iWork apps. As sooon as I moved the updates back into the Applications folder, and ran Software Update again, the updates showed.
I can't imagine the number of apps that aren't getting properly patched because of Apple's reliance on static locations.
Well, I only use it for reports, letters and such. Heck, I don't even know how to use a spreadsheet!
Besides, keynote looks %&*# cool!
Guess who Apple's next iWork customer is?
Besides, keynote looks %&*# cool!
Guess who Apple's next iWork customer is?
Kingsly said:
I used it to write a manual for my college assignment, it had to have the usual table of contents, index, bibliography, definitions, images with captions (ie: figure 1.1, etc) and so on. It worked flawlessly and actually looks a whole lot better than anything I could have done in Word. Even the cover looks amazing. I have to submit a hard copy and an electronic copy, they expect to receive a .doc file of course but they're getting it in pdf. I exported my Pages manual to pdf (using "print") and the end result is exactly how it looks in Pages.
So yeah I like Pages. It's easier to use and just as good as Word.
I love pages, but the problem I have had most recently is that after you type a letter, once you reopen it pages updates the date automatically. Kind of irritating when you need to find the date you typed the letter. At least finder can help approximate it.
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yojitani said:
This happens only when you use the Insert/Date and time. Just type it in, and it won't change!
I've discovered that this update fixes a major bug in Pages 2.0 (not advertised by Apple, naturally). In 2.0, if you used the Adjust Image pane to correct image levels, etc. of a jpeg, Pages would create an uncompressed tiff image for each adjustment, and store them in the document package. These images are huge! If later you decided to revert to the original image, Pages would not delete the adjustment files from the package, so the file would balloon and stay that way. Now, with 2.01, Pages creates much more efficient jpeg adjustment files, and they are properly deleted if the image is reverted to the original.
I'm still waiting for a performance boost... Pages gets slower every time I use it...
But yes it's amazing, I don't even have Word on my hard drive anymore.
Does anyone else think the new Keynote templates are weird? That whole 3D-wood-graph thing, not really working IMO.
But yes it's amazing, I don't even have Word on my hard drive anymore.
Does anyone else think the new Keynote templates are weird? That whole 3D-wood-graph thing, not really working IMO.
bousozoku said:
Not sure what you mean, the 2.01 update? AFAIK, Apple never even acknowledged that it was a problem.
bousozoku said:
Right, I know. But the specific flaw it fixed wasn't described in the documentation for the update, or anywhere else that I've seen. It was a pretty big one IMO, so I thought knowing that would make the update seem a bit more urgent for Pages users. Probably Keynote 3.0 has the same issue, but I haven't tested it.
ccool2ax said:
Nah, talking about my university store, has it for 40$ I think the store gets it at the discounted price is why.
bousozoku said:You expected them to admit to something that big?
So long as they can fix it before too many people notice, anyway. I only picked up on this issue a couple of weeks ago, so as far as I'm concerned, Apple got right on it!
