http://www.bioneural.net bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:49:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.bioneural.net/images/kiwi-yellow-64px.png http://www.bioneural.net 64 64 bioneural.net http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2007%2F10%2F16%2Fshare-and-future-proof-iwork-08-documents%2F&seed_title=Share+and+future-proof+iWork+%26%23039%3B08+documents http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2007%2F10%2F16%2Fshare-and-future-proof-iwork-08-documents%2F&seed_title=Share+and+future-proof+iWork+%26%23039%3B08+documents#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:29 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2007/10/16/share-and-future-proof-iwork-08-documents/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

Can't open your old ClarisWorks or AppleWorks documents in iWork? Check the option to "Include preview in document" when saving in Pages, Keynote, or Numbers '08 to embed a PDF version. Access Preview.pdf inside the QuickLook folder via "Show Package Contents" (Mac without iWork) or by opening the filename folder (Windows). The advantage? You can re-edit the original while iWork is with us, but retain an archived cross-platform version until the end of PDF. [via macosxhints.com] ]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2007%2F10%2F16%2Fshare-and-future-proof-iwork-08-documents%2F&seed_title=Share+and+future-proof+iWork+%26%23039%3B08+documents/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2007%2F08%2F11%2Fiwork-08-and-support-for-open-xml%2F&seed_title=iWork+08+and+support+for+Open+XML http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2007%2F08%2F11%2Fiwork-08-and-support-for-open-xml%2F&seed_title=iWork+08+and+support+for+Open+XML#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:05:19 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2007/08/11/iwork-08-and-support-for-open-xml/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

A 30-day trial of Apple's iWork 08 is available for download, an application suite that "Works with Office". Pages professes compatibility with Microsoft Word, Numbers with Excel, and Keynote with PowerPoint. This includes read-only support for the Microsoft-sponsored Open XML file formats introduced with Office 2007 for Windows. Note that Office Open XML (OOXML) is not the same as OpenDocument format (ODF), an alternative XML-based open-source ISO standard as used in OpenOffice. iWork 08 promises to import and export to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint The iWork apps had no problems opening even quite complicated Word and PowerPoint documents I had made using Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. It opened my basic Excel spreadsheets too, continuing to automatically sum the columns as I adjusted my figures. As for the newer file formats, you can download "deliberately simple" Open XML sample documents here, including .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files. The ZIP archive usefully contains screen captures of the file contents as they should appear in Office 2007. Here were the results when I attempted to open them: Pages thinks the .docx file isn't in Word format Numbers thinks the .xlsx file is invalid Keynote appears to open the .pptx file but fails to display actual content Has anyone had success in using OOXML files with iWork 08? iWork otherwise looks very capable, and during my brief exploration I haven't found it lacking compared to my real world use of Office 2004 for Mac. iPhone also supports OOXML. Update: Even the Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta) failed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2007%2F08%2F11%2Fiwork-08-and-support-for-open-xml%2F&seed_title=iWork+08+and+support+for+Open+XML/feed/ 9 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/