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From: gtr on 30 Jun 2010 22:45 On 2010-06-30 17:27:12 -0700, erilar said: > I don't have time yet to download the free trial of iWork 09, but would > like a couple questions answered by someone who knows/uses it. > > The first one is, are you locked into their preformatted "templates"? Yes. For more detail, demo it. I love it, I've always loved it and I always will love it. > And had anyone with it added the "Pages" app to an iPad? I'm REALLY > curious about this. Not me. -- If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jun 2010 22:53 On 06-30-2010 20:27, erilar wrote: > I don't have time yet to download the free trial of iWork 09, but would > like a couple questions answered by someone who knows/uses it. It's smaller than one CD installed. Does that take longer to download than typing two hundred words on Usenet and reading three hundred words of response? “You always have time for what you do first.” PKB--when I think how much I'd accomplish if I didn't have Usenet … -- Wes Groleau Daily Hoax: http://www.snopes2.com/cgi-bin/random/random.asp
From: Matthew Lybanon on 1 Jul 2010 10:46 In article <drache-876FBF.19271130062010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > I don't have time yet to download the free trial of iWork 09, but would > like a couple questions answered by someone who knows/uses it. > > The first one is, are you locked into their preformatted "templates"? > I prefer to create my own, but past experience with fancy programs is > that the more preformatted stuff is offered, the less freedom I'm > allowed. > > And had anyone with it added the "Pages" app to an iPad? I'm REALLY > curious about this. The templates include blank pages. (There are two types of documents, word processor documents and "canvas" documents. The latter are--I guess--like NeoOffice Drawings, in which you can put text boxes and graphic elements where you want them.) And the preformatted templates allow you easily to move around, resize, add, and delete the various elements, so yu can tailor a design you like to suit your needs.
From: AES on 1 Jul 2010 11:28 In article <1415279927299639984.702888drache-chibardun.netinvalid(a)news.eternal-sept ember.org>, Erilar <drache(a)chibardun.netinvalid> wrote: > What I was thinking of doing with the iPad was carrying along > information created at home that I might need somewhere I'd only have > the iPad with me and might need to not only refer to, but to edit > slightly, such as travel info and bibliographies. It sounds as if that > would be feasible. That's the way I could see myself using an iPad also: All my primary working tools, all of my primary files, always on my home-base computer (which is in fact a laptop, and goes with me on longer trips when that's necessary, but normally stays connected to a bunch of peripherals on my physical desktop at my home base). Then, occasionally, for short jaunts, dump a subset of my files onto the iPad, with one simple drag and drop, to be read or studied and maybe slightly altered during the time away from home, and immediately dumped back to the primary home laptop in the same way on return. From everything I've read thus far, that's not the way the iPad works. You can't just plug it into your home computer with a USB or Firewire cable (or a flash drive); drag and drop files to it with one simple mouse action; have access to this stuff with (possibly simplified or slower) versions of your primary tools (_including non-Apple tools_) on the iPad while you're on the road; and reverse the process when you're back. Be glad to be shown I'm wrong on this . . .
From: Erilar on 1 Jul 2010 11:36
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 06-30-2010 20:27, erilar wrote: >> I don't have time yet to download the free trial of iWork 09, but > > would >> like a couple questions answered by someone who knows/uses it. > > It's smaller than one CD installed. Does that take longer to download > than typing two hundred words on Usenet and reading three hundred > words > of response? > > “You always have time for what you do first.” > > PKB--when I think how much I'd accomplish if I didn't have Usenet … Oh, I know installing it won't be a problem, but I want to have time for plenty of experimenting. Avoiding Usenet would free some up, but I don't c Hoose to do that. Just had an object lesson in one downside of doing this in my recliner: wriggling dog causes typos! -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist |