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Sep 28, 09 - 04:44 pm Comment from: this guy

I hope it writes my papers for me.

I wish Apple would work on launch times. There is no reason an application should take so long on fully updated modern hardware.

Sep 28, 09 - 04:58 pm Comment from: Jubei

I love iWork. I just Apple makes it a Pro version one day so that I can really get rid of that bloated POS Office. Or heck make a Windows version, since I'm forced to use Windows by its web enabled Monopoly scheme.

Sep 28, 09 - 05:01 pm Comment from: Jubei

Forgot to mention, good thin Neo Office and Open Office Org is available for an alternative to office. I encourage all of you to use one of these if Office is being rammed down your throat. Then again your IT/CIO manager may frown and force you to use Office instead.

Sep 28, 09 - 05:04 pm Comment from: Brulek

Anything to be free of that blight on humanity know as microsh*t....Actually iWork is quite good for 98% of things.

Sep 28, 09 - 05:29 pm Comment from: HolyMackerel

@ Jubei
I do all my Word/Excel work in NeoOffice and love it, but the drawing and PowerPoint modules so truly awful they would make a Linux UI programmer cry. For these and more I use iWork.

microcosm codec still doesn't work when exporting keynote as QT movie. Still no way to change shortcuts, still no layers. Good old Apple thinking. Oh well, the powerpoint converts will love it - and I guess that's all what matters, right?

Layers? This is a presentation program, not Photoshop.

Sep 28, 09 - 11:33 pm Comment from: Cubert

I sincerely hope that they have finally thinned out the molasses that opens Keynote files.

Sep 29, 09 - 03:30 am Comment from: LLIB SETAG

iWork Pages will open MSWord files or save as MS Word.doc files. Why use MSOffice at all? Keynote + Numbers do the same thing. Plus if you NEED to flashback to the past, Macs will run Windows, so you don't need a PC at all. Snow Leopard has MS Exchange support + Bonjour so integration with WinServer network is easy.
iWork rocks!

@wrong again,

are you seriously implying that the only app you've seen out there where layers make sense, is Photoshop? Layers always make sense when amounts of images are being stacked, and where the selection of these single groups or elements becomes difficult. Anyway, it looks like you're not in the need for layers or more advanced selection tools. Good for you.

"Anyway, it looks like you're not in the need for layers or more advanced selection tools."

And no one using a PRESENTATION application does either. Maybe drawing, maybe painting, but Keynote is first and foremost a presentation app. Is Keynote handy when creating complex motion layouts due to it's high quality image rendering? Yup. But if you get to the point where you need Keynote to have layers, it's time to graduate to a non-presentation app. Right tool for the right job, y'know?