I Love Quality Software: Apple?s Pages - No Fluff Just Stuff

I Love Quality Software: Apple?s Pages

Posted by: Ben Galbraith on November 13, 2006

I love Apple’s Pages. Sure, it’s missing tons of features from Microsoft Word. But what it does, it does well, and its got a fast and easy to use interface. Styles seem to work better than with Word.

Of course, I need to work with my Microsoft Word colleagues from time-to-time. I exported a Pages document to Word format today, and I was very pleasantly surprised to see that my Pages comments were also converted over to Word comments:

Pages Comment...
...Converted to MS Word

I assumed the comments would be lost. It’s the attention to details (like getting an exporter to work really well) that matter to me. Details, details, details.

Ben Galbraith

About Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several Java-related books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, an experienced CTO and Java Architect, and is presently a consultant specializing in Java Swing and Ajax development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he’s been professionally coding in Java. Ben has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide at venues including JavaOne, The Ajax Experience, JavaPolis, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium series; he was the top-rated speaker at JavaOne 2006.

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