Tuesday, January 06, 2009

iWork '09 released - what's new and what isn't

There is a new version of iWork out there today. This is an incomplete list of new functionality in Pages '09/Pages 4.0:
  • Full screen view
  • Dynamic outlines
  • Mail Merge integration with Numbers
  • Support for MathType and EndNote
  • A "Share" menu to quickly mail documents to other users or to share them using "iwork.com" or iweb.
  • Documents are no longer packages, but "real" files, which more easily can be attached to emails.
  • Tables (but not images) in RTF files are now recognised.
  • Documents can be password protected.
  • Reduce File Size to remove non used data from cropped or shrunk pictures.
  • Insert Filename
  • Sub-pixel font smoothing seems solved
  • A more advanced gradient fill for graphics
  • A fix of the problem with exact line spacing.
  • Reflections can now be added to shapes.
  • You can now add paste tables from Safari.
  • The flag "Keep with following paragraph" now works for several paragraphs after each other.
The following new languages are added:
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Korean
  • Norwegian (BokmÃ¥l)
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Swedish
Some issues that are not fixed are:
  • Auto-save
  • Japanese furigana, vertical script
  • Right-to-left writing in for example Arabic and Hebrew
  • Support for Open Document format
  • There is still no easy way to change default font.
  • There is still no easy way to change default dictionary language inside Pages.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the Review. It was so helpful!