Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Jul 2006 17:46 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
PCMag reviews iWork '06. "For word processing, the Apple iWork '06 Pages program is no match for Microsoft Word or ThinkFree Office 3.0. But it's capable, and its ability to create gorgeous documents easily is unequaled on the Mac." My take: I concur. iWork is the best tool for the job when you need to create a document you yourself will distribute physically; however, since iWork uses a closed file format only iWork users can read, distributing it electronically is fairly useless.
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2006-07-13
When writing a document for others to edit, I think rtf is the best way.
RTF is a poorly documented format, and should not be used for collaboration if you wish to preserve formatting. Even microsofts own programs can't preserve the formatting on some RTF documents. If you wan't to use an open format, go for ODF, if you want to reach as many people as possible (and maintain editability) use .doc.
I personally prefer to work in LaTeX, but I wrote my bachelors thesis in business economics in OO.o using .doc to be able to collaborate with my partner. It worked great, even though we had a fairly advanced document (e.g. automatically generated index). In the end we converted it to pdf.
I haven't tried iWork, but I agree that using it's own file format is limiting factor for collaboration. It might be a great app, and it is sad that they chose the path of a closed file format.
However, one should remember that it takes a while to develop a program like pages, and that when they started ODF probably wasn't as known as it is now.