OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 09:23:02 EST 2014


Things look pretty negative about Pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pages_%28word_processor%29

"As of November 2012, Pages does not support OpenDocument file format. 
The only known software other than Pages which can open its files is the 
Google Docs Viewer.[11] It can view the files, and save them as PDF via 
the Print function, but not edit them.

While there is no program that can view or edit a .pages file using 
Windows or Linux, some content can be retrieved from a document created 
in Pages '09, because a .pages file is actually a bundle."

So, even more closed-shop than MSW.

This does not entirely surprise me, as Apple, having spent years on 
anti-Microsoft propaganda, a lot based in the lack of interoperability
between Macintosh and Windows, have been, recently, doing their damndest 
to make the bi-planetary Mac OS - iOS system into a walled
garden.

Richmond.




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