Apple's iWork Pages: OpenOffice.org format?

[Andrew Zschetzsche]

Hmmm, interesting.  I wonder what, if any, crossover capability there is?


On 1/21/05 11:10 PM, "Clinton MacDonald" <clint.macdonald at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Friends:
> 
> I just received and installed my copy of Apple's recently announced
> iWork suite which contains Keynote (Apple's PowerPoint killer -- which I
> love) and Pages, a brand-new word processing application. Well, it seems
> that the Pages file format is a gzipped XML file ("index.xml.gz"). Isn't
> that the same format used by OpenOffice.org?
> 
> Also, when examining the "About Pages" box, there is an Acknowledgments
> button... which opens to a GNU Library General Public License ("Free
> Software Foundation ­ (libiconv) Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc.").
> 
> Way to go, Apple!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint

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