"With the latest release of Apple's office productivity suite, iWork '08, the Pages application moves into the ranks of full-fledged word processing applications. Previously known more for its page layout capabilities than for its word processing capabilities, Pages now enables users to switch seamlessly between writing and designing documents. In addition, the application offers 140 document templates and a snazzy track-changes feature, both of which work to position iWork '08 as an apt rival to Microsoft's Office 2004 for Mac in the OS X-compatible office productivity arena."
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Member since:2005-07-23
But then if someone writes a document in staroffice 12 which uses odf 2.2 and I want to open that in ilife '11 which uses 1.7 and it don't know about all the new stuff in 2.2 won't I have the same problem and can't open it completely?
But sure, the actuall data within the file is readable.
Can anyone add to ODF? Could Apple say "hey we need this functionallity added, add that so we can use it" and it would get added even if openoffice didn't understood it, got a use for it and couldn't show it?
If not it's rather useless and Apples decision is understandable. I doubt they do it as much for vendor lockin as they do it because it's more convenient for them. Also Pages have existed longer than ODF have been a standard haven't it? And only open-/staroffice used it back then.
Member since:2005-07-06
It's the developer's responsibility to keep his application updated to follow subsequent ODF specifications.
Seems like it:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=offic...
Yes.
As I said: Pages changes its file format every release.
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2005-07-06
Even ODF needs updates. As long as updates don't break backward compatibility just because they can and as long as the changes are documented there's no problems with updates.
ODF 1.1 (the current version) should support everything used by iWork 08. KWord is frame-based just like Pages and Numbers' concept with several sheets on one page is basically the same as KOffice 2's Flake Shape concept.
If the KOffice developers can implant all that with ODF, Apple could have done the same.