Odt Support

Hello
I'm thinking about buying Pages. But I have to know if Pages support odt file type? And if LibreOffice support Pages document?
Thanks

No, it doesn't. And note that the current version (5.1) is the only one easily available and that it is seriously crippled (it lacks about 100 features that were present in Pages 4.3 ("Pages 09") and is very buggy to boot.

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I would very much appreciate any direction.
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- Intellisense would be nice (but maybe mostly a "cool"/"demoware" feature). But maybe a hotkey for opening the "Oracle Explorer" with the active (eg. where the cursor is on or a the right of) table/view/function/package/... expaned would be more usefull. If the cursor is at the right of the keyword "FROM" a list of tables should be shown but if it is on "FROM" the help with the syntax should be shown. Escape should return focus to the query.
- Ctrl+L should make the selection lowercase and Ctrl+U make it uppercase (or Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Shift+U for compatibility with the rest of VS.NET). I find that the code, I use the editors "change case"-feature most on is sql sinse I really like sql keywords upper case and identifiers lower case (and oracle ofthe make everything uppercase).
- Now I see that there is a execute button on the toolbar, but (a) you have made it a strange brownish green (please make it greener) (b) you have placed it in the far left (or that is where it showed for me) in the top toolbar, where I had expected it to the left of the text "Query Editor" (inside the "ORACLE://<shema>.<datasource>/Query" pane).
- Move the title "Query Editor" to the Tab (that says "ORACLE://<shema>.<datasource>/Query"). This will save some vertical space and make space for the toolbar. The title "Query Output" might be remove altogether.
- Bind variables doesn't seem to be supported. I think that this is really a problem since *you should make it easy for developers to do the right think* and bind variables certainly is the right thing. You should bring up a window with the binds that are used in the query and enable me to set their type (if you can't figure it out from context (eg. emp.id=:emp_id would probably mean that :emp_id is a number) and their value. Also please persist the type/value for each variable name so I don't need to figure out the id of that employee I usally test with.
A few non-query window notes:
- In the spirit of "make it easy to do the right thing", what would be the easy way to call (and get intellisense on) a package function in a the cs-file?
- In the context menu for a procedure "Run" should be "Run..." sinse it just brings up a window. And you probably want to "Delete" at the bottom (above the line).
- In the context menu for a view "Retrive Data..." should be "Retrive Data" sinse it doesn't bring up a dialog. I accidentally selected it for a rather large/slow view and really wanted a "Stop" button (thanks for the option to stop after 30 seconds). I think you shouldn't retrive more than, say, 50 rows without the user explicitly saying so (and never blob/long raw columns or more than eg. 100 chars from a clob/long column).
- The default action when dobbelt clicking a table shouldn't be "Retrive Data..."(!), it should be "Design...".
- Choosing "Generate Create Script..." (which might just be called "Generate Script") on a produce, funciton or package, should bring up a preview window with a save-button.
- When opening a function in the "Oracle Explorer", setting the cursor on eg. the keyword FUNCTION and hitting F1, the help index opens searching for "Oracle.ODT.SQL.CREATE FUNCTION", but there is (of cause?) no such topic. If I select the any part of the text in the help index search box and hit delete, I am asked "Oracle Explorer, Are you sure that you want to permanently delete '<shema>.<datasource>.<function name>' from the database ?" which is definetly not was I want to do!
With regards to the rest of the add-in, what is was really hoping for was Visual Source Safe integration and easy procedure calling, but that doesn't seem to be implemented. But then I don't know what the problem statement for this add-in was.

.DOC(X) vs .PAGES vs .ODT -- usage/legacy/archiving questions...

(I know I know this has been discussed a lot I'm sure, but I still have some unresolved issues, so please try to bear with me.)
I know iWork is NOT the same as Office and is NOT meant as a replacement for Office (regardless of most Apple Store staff misrepresenting this "Save As" MS Office file extension functionality). However still longterm legacy issues persist that I'm wanting some help on from users here so that I won't have problems opening files in 10+ years time without in some way losing the original document formatting.
Just bought recently Macs, and I like Pages and Numbers usability, and understand they are not Office replacements when it comes to what they do and especially the formats you can save to while using (yes there's a script to save continuously CMD+S as .doc/.xls, but still the formatting allowed in iWork apps is usually not then allowable!).
My main issue then, is if Apple have changed their native formats (.pages & .numbers) heavily between '08 and '09 versions, so much so that users are complaining of losing formatting even on Apple's own upgraded products, then what is going to be the state of opening these things in 5-10-20 years time?
Is it really worth the risk of having HUGE legacy issues when archiving current files with Apple's format types, as Office formats are being ISO standardised?
The reason I raise this, is that from what I have read, MS Office is currently using these "Office Open XML" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OfficeOpenXML ) standards (.docx, .xlsx, pptx) which will be an International ISO standard. Thus ANY office program in the future will be able to open and edit cleanly WITHOUT losing any formatting on the original program.
Why is Apple outside of this with it's proprietary iWork formats, which are not very compatible. And more to the point, as a user who doesn't want format issues in the future when opening older files, what would be the benefit of saving to the iWork extensions?
I also have read about this other competing 'open' standardised format of OpenDocument/ODF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument ) —.odt, .ods, .odp, etc.— which only OpenOffice/NeoOffice seem to be going down (yes, I know TextEdit can open but limited).
But seeing as .doc & .xls have been the business formats of choice (MS Office legacy), are being ISO standardised, and still remain high % universal with most other users, why use ODF or iWork fomats AT ALL?
How do others around here deal with all these choices, when it comes to archives in the future?
Yours perplexed, Jim

Read this press release from MS in May 2008:
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
To summarise:
Basically MS Office are supporting BOTH formats: OOXML (Office Open XML: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx) and ODF (Open Document Format: .odt, .ods, .odp). So users will have the choice of which ISO standard to use.
This makes Apple's iWork completely redundant and out of the equation, as it only supports fully its own proprietary extensions (.pages, .numbers, .keynote). With half-exportable abilities to the old pre-XML Office formats (ie. without the "x" on the end) of .doc, .xls, .ppt.
So, if you really want a paid-for product (rather than the free, but not very good graphically "GUI" programs), you should almost certainly go for MS Office For Mac 2008. At least then you'll know that you'll be able to use BOTH the leading file standards going forward into the future.
Even if macro's are not on Office Mac 2008, the next edition will almost certainly have the full suite that the Office Windows 2010 will get.
...shame cause I really like iWork's interface more. Why Apple didn't focus on the iWork user interface and productivity rather than their own special not-widely-adopted proprietary formats, seems lacking in business sense, given us users are not completely thick and can work out a future dead-end format when we see it. (pages 08 not even working with pages 09 - outrageous IMO?!?)
Surely they realised that these two format systems are the future, yet are attempting to go completely against the grain WRONGLY trying to gain some kind of market share for themselves at the loss of interoperability with other users and platforms.
You can understand it from a straight money point of view (gaining a market share of users to keep for their own products only), but with online Google Apps now and MS's online offering improving soon, both using these two ISO standard formats; why would anyone want to be stuck on their own with the Apple iWork ones?
And hence why staff in store tell half-truths about iWork working with Office. As a relatively new Apple user I expected some specialities, but this I am most unimpressed about. Bad Bad Bad Bad.

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