Jan
06
Apple announces iWork.com
Posted by | Posted in iWork Updates, Resources | Posted on 01-06-2009
Apple today announced the beta release of iWork.com, an online version of iWork (we suspect similar to Google Docs).
You now have the ability to send documents from the regular version of iWork up to the online version and share them with others. It doesn’t appear that you can edit documents, but you can share, comment and download files from the site.
But will my shared Keynote files include the fonts I used? Kind of a big deal.
I suspect not, but I guess we’ll find out. Usually when I give someone a custom theme, I give them the font too. Or I simply stick to the one that theme uses, which is usually one that came with Keynote or OS X.
…which leaves me with the ol’ Interactive QuickTime export as the only way to share my presos with the fonts I very deliberately chose. Those of us who choose specific fonts for specific reasons (such as the messages that fonts convey) don’t always stick to Myriad, Helvetica, or Times. The hope that I nourished was that if one couldn’t edit in the cloud, read-only font-sharing wouldn’t be a problem. I envision a day in which reasonable font access won’t be the hassle it is today
I got a demo of iWork.com from Apple. When you click the iWork.com button, it saves your presentation then sends it to an area hosted by Apple. Visitors to your iWork page can see the presentation page by page, but they can’t edit it. It doesn’t display like a “live” presentation, so it would mainly be used as a collaboration tool (unless they build in some form of Flash integrated playback at some future point). In this mode, there’s no worry about the fonts as you’re only looking at non-editable images.
Users are also given the option to download the Keynote document, a PDF, or a PowerPoint document. Presumably, the conversion is handled on the server side, so Apple can tweak the conversion as the beta period goes on. It’s THIS mode where I’m wondering if they include the fonts OR if they do something fancy like converting them to shapes. I’m going to try to get someone to download the .ppt file then see what’s what.
Keynote still exports as .ppt, but I’m willing to guess that the engine driving iWork.com is going to be better at it.
Hi all,
I was 90% sure we would see Keynote 09, so prepared my Macworld Presentation accordingly. I am hoping one of the leads of the Apple Keynote team will attend for some Q and A. He spoke of masking having changed when you use the option key – not sure if Brian noted it. I will try and cover some of the highlights in my presentation since I didn’t lock it down. But certainly, having presenter view show all the slides not just three is a real boon. More to come as I look and play, but good to see it’s being improved upon each year. Not sure how many features many of us have always wanted eg audio and timeline will ever make it in.
I’m still downloading, so I’ve been watching the videos. Holding down Option makes Keynote ignore detected boundaries. For example, with a logo on a single color background. You don’t have to worry about stretching the Instant Alpha so far that you erode the edges of your logo.
I’m wondering if this works more like Preview’s Instant Alpha? (there are minor differences between Preview and Keynote with Instant Alpha)
I am a novice keynote user and am hoping to get an answer to a simple question. My presentation has a bunch of graphs and the keynote file appears to blow up in size with graphs. Each graph appears to be several mb and so the final file ends up being of unmanageable size. How do I create a usable file that I ca then send around ? he graphs dont have to be editable in this version but saving it to pdf and inserting back in did not do anything. thanks for any help.
I want to use iwork to shared my presentatios with clients.
Can they play it with the animatios, the music, transitions, and all the effects I used from the iwork website? (not just the static page)….
thanks
F.