Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: no answers to my question

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 <snowshed1@q.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> 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
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