Hi :) Just in case anyone thought i was sounding unusually knowledgeable (and about Macs!) all my stuff was in the snipped out bit. It was all Alex and Ken there.
I have just had a few days (1hour/day) on a Macbook but it's the first time i have used Mac in about a decade. Wow though! It was really nice and smooth! It had some features that i really like Gnu&Linux for, such as multiple workspaces/virtual screens. Some things were a bit upside down. When you want to move a page up the screen to go on to the next page the gesture is to slide your fingers up. Hmmm, now i write that it seems more logical than the Windows way! I'm not likely to buy one but it's really nice to use. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Ken Springer <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, 24 May 2013, 0:47 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: no answers to my question > > >On 5/23/13 4:44 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: >> Le 22/05/13 20:45, Tom Davies a écrit : >> > ><snip> > >> Now, Pages/Numbers/Keynote support might interest more people, but for >> that you would need a Mac developer with some serious time on his/her >> hands and at the moment there aren't many floating around in this project. > >FWIW, all three will Save As in MS Office formats, for those that need >to share a file with someone else. In addition, OS X allows you to save >that file as a PDF file from the Save/Save As print dialog. > >The downside of saving as MS Office format, I think you are l likely to >lose some formatting the OS X are capable of that MS formats are not. I >know this is true for Keynote to PowerPoint files. > >As for the other two... I never liked Pages, just a personal >preference, so don't use it. But, our club newsletter creator has >created quite the results with Pages. I'm not sure I'd want to tackle >it in MS Word. As for Numbers, never used it, as to me all the >spreadsheets may as well be identical. I use a spreadsheet for simple >number crunching, not a graphing program, or database program. >> >> To my knowledge, not even other apps on OSX can open the >> Pages/Numbers/Keynote files. > >I have to say, some will, but you have to understand the results might >not be what you want. That's a problem with importing any file created >by any program, in either direction, as I noted with Keynote files above. > >> One would have thought that if the problem >> of interoperability with these formats was that acute, then some bright >> Mac spark would have developed an app that could do just that, convert >> them to something more useful. > >I don't have the time to test, but possibly saving as a PDF, and then >importing into another program may work. > > >-- >Ken > >Mac OS X 10.8.3 >Firefox 20.0 >Thunderbird 17.0.5 >LibreOffice 4.0.1.2 > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
