support for other Apple iWorks documents (Pages, ...)?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 21:20, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday February 01 2019 12:01:08 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> >I doubt it due to scope of the challenge. It's not matter of just plugging
> >the lib into Calligra filters.
>
> Looking at how lean the Keynote import plugin seems to be I was hoping it
> would. But I also just discovered that plugin doesn't work with my .key
> files - after I managed to force-build Stage which was uneventful once I
> had figured out which file to hack (is there an official way to say "ignore
> there's no current maintainer, just build it"?)
>
> >+ NIH. Sending ODF files to users of MSO is no longer a blocker, why it
> >would be different with Apple users?
>
> Not sure what you mean here; I'm looking for import of my .pages documents.
> I don't remember if and how well my version(*) of Pages exports to ODF
> format, but it's export to .doc is ... perfectable.
>

I mean that if ODF was a common denominator for iWorks->outside world too
then the future would be brighter. That's a wishful thinking of course.
Unless export of ODF was modernized, Apple is now way more closed-mindset
company than MS ;)


> *) From iWorks 09. Old, but one of the best releases before they started
> stripping more advanced features that may or may not have been restored in
> later versions which won't run on my OS version.
>
> I'll see if and how LO deals with those .pages files (pardon, directories
> :) ) of mine.
>


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