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History
iWork '05
iWork '05 was launched in January 11, 2005 and features a new version of Keynote (Keynote 2), and the first release of Pages (Pages 1.0).iWork '06
In January 2006, Apple introduced iWork '06 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, which features new versions of Pages (Pages 2) and Keynote (Keynote 3). New features common to both programs include 3D charts, tables with formula support, reviewer comments, and shaped image masking. The addition of tables with formula support may have been added to quiet rumors of an Apple spreadsheet application. Since iWork's focus is on presentation, Apple incorporated a way to put most common spreadsheet features into a table while providing only limited additional functionality.Contents
iWork is comprised of two applications: Pages and Keynote.Pages
Pages is a word processing application with an emphasis on presentation. It is useful for many projects beyond that of the standard word-processing application. Pages comes loaded with a set of Apple-designed templates for presentations including:
- Newsletters
- Journals
- Invitations
- Stationary
- Resumés
- Education Projects
- Marketing Projects
- Pages files (.pages)
- Microsoft Word files (.doc)
- Portable Document Format (.pdf)
- Web Pages (.html)
- Rich text files (.rtf)
- Plain text files (.txt)
Keynote
Keynote is a slideshow application with an emphasis on presentation. It is similar in many ways to Microsoft's Powerpoint, but contains several features native to the iWork suite. Keynote makes use of iLife integration by including a media browser for inserting pictures, music, and video from iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. Keynote also features the ability to include animation in slideshow presentations. Keynote is quite versatile in its ability to recognize and save to many formats, including:- Keynote presentations (.key)
- Microsoft Powerpoint presentations (.ppt)
- Quicktime movies (.mov), which may be interactive depending on your choice.
- Macromedia Flash animations (.swf)
- PDF Acrobat PDF document (.pdf)
- Import any image format recognized by QuickTime, export several image formats (.jpg, .png or .tiff)
Criticism
iWork has been criticized due to the lack of a spreadsheet or database program as well as a project management program.The lack of the spreadsheet application could be considered intentional—in iWork '06, both Keynote 3 and Pages 2 allow one to create tables with automatically updating fields, thus reducing the necessity to have a distinct application devoted entirely to the spreadsheet capability. However, interchange with other programs would be difficult.
iWork has also been criticized due to lack of support of the OpenDocument format.
See also
External links
| Apple's iWork |
| Keynote | Pages |
| Apple Computer software | |
|---|---|
| Consumer
| .Mac > Front Row | iLife | iWork | Mac OS X | Photo Booth | QuickTime |
| Prosumer:
| Final Cut Express > Logic Express |
| Pro:
| Aperture | Final Cut Studio | Logic Pro | Shake |
| Server:
| Apple Remote Desktop > Mac OS X Server | WebObjects | Xsan |
| Discontinued:
| AppleWorks > HyperCard | MacDraw | Mac OS | MacPaint | MacProject | MacTerminal | MacWrite |
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