X11: GIMP and OpenOffice

[ravenvii]

iWork is awesome... if you want to work within it, and don't care about full compatibility with other programs as far as edit-able goes. If you don't mind saving as PDF, and viewing it on other computers that way, then iWork is fine. But if you need to edit your files on Word too, then iWork won't be that great.

But if you don't care about editing it on other computers, do get iWork. It's only $50 for students, and Keynote rocks.

 

[Platform]

iWork is awesome... if you want to work within it, and don't care about full compatibility with other programs as far as edit-able goes. If you don't mind saving as PDF, and viewing it on other computers that way, then iWork is fine. But if you need to edit your files on Word too, then iWork won't be that great.

But if you don't care about editing it on other computers, do get iWork. It's only $50 for students, and Keynote rocks.

Thanks

What are the bad parts with iWork and word (I only do the basic in word)
Keynote how is that with PP

 

[ravenvii]

Basically Pages has fancy templates and tools to make your document look pretty. Many of those fancy stuff won't appear right in Word. If you're talking straight-up document with minimal or no formatting, then Word won't have any problems.

As for what is Keynote, here's an idea: why don't you look it up yourself? www.apple.com/keynote their marketing team probably explains it better than I can.

 

[PlaceofDis]

keynote is a whole different beast than PP, and its a much better piece of presentation software than PP if you ask me, although i have yet to try out 2.0, still debating on if i should pick up iwork, not sure about pages personally

 

[freiheit]

Rather than OpenOffice, take the other poster's suggestion and try NeoOffice/J (which is the native aqua port). It works very well here (I've been an OpenOffice/StarOffice user on various platforms since version 4 and Neo is by far my favorite incarnation yet =])

Version 4, eh? I think I remember running that briefly under OS/2 back in the day. It was quite nice.

I also tend to agree that NeoOffice/J is a better solution than OpenOffice.org for the Mac. Yeah OOo works and it works pretty darned well. But NO/J is definitely faster for me and I like the native Aqua menus and whatnot. Either way, though, you're still stuck with the OpenOffice.org/StarOffice default file open/save dialogs, which IMHO really suck. Perhaps with support and donations (I donated!) the NeoOffice/J port can eventually use native Aqua file dialogs, too.

 

[Platform]

I have both Photoshop 7 and the GIMP 2.2

When I load an animated GIF into the GIMP it shows all of the layers and it can export it as an animation

If I try to do the same thing in Photoshop the it won't it says that it will only display a single layer A FREE APP CAN DO MORE THAN PHOTOSHOP

Or can this be done in the CS version