it would be nice if iWork used ODF as it’s really not productivity software if its formats are not compatible with the rest of the world no matter what OS and software one is using
from Oiselarius@dice.camp to apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2024 15:40
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@apple_enthusiast it would be nice if iWork used ODF as it’s really not productivity software if its formats are not compatible with the rest of the world no matter what OS and software one is using particularly when ODF is now the ISO recognized format.

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reddig33@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2024 15:58 next collapse

That would be nice. That said, Pages exports to RTF and Numbers exports to CSV. These are standard interchange formats.

Oiselarius@dice.camp on 15 Sep 2024 04:53 next collapse

@reddig33 tried export tests and too much is “lost in translation”, not as much lost exporting to docx but still not a complete translation. Using LibreOffice and Collabora with ODF and collaborating with MSO users will have to do as there are no problems there. iWork sadly isn’t all that useful as long as it remains closed.

xcjs@programming.dev on 18 Sep 2024 14:13 collapse

CSV only exports data, not formulas. I don’t really consider it a proper spreadsheet interchange format.

kinttach@lemm.ee on 11 Sep 2024 17:01 collapse

I have used the Excel/Word/Keynote formats with iWork and it’s okay. MS Office is the de-facto standard format and recognized by Google Docs, OpenOffice, and of course MS Office.

I don’t think it’s a truly open format like ODF, but you can be sure it’ll be recognized everywhere for a long time.