Apple iWork '06 (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION]
![Apple iWork '06 (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION]](/Images/B0007LW23A/medium.jpg) | Average Customer Rating: Recommend iWork 06 lets you choose an Apple-designed template, then add your own text, charts, tables, shapes, and iLife photos, movies, and music. Create eyecatching three-dimensional charts, tables with calculations, freeform shapes and photo masks, and more. Pages 2 includes mail merge, auto-correction, and new Page Thumbnails and Search views. Keynote 3 features stunning new animation effects, a Light Table view, and tools to help you rehearse,… Product details and pricing info |
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34 Customer Reviews Posted
- Nice product ruined by poor PDF support
- I've used iWork for a number of projects including my wedding invitations which were sent to a professional printer and a Quicktime slideshow for job interviews. Both Pages and Keynote are fairly intuitive applications with sleek features allow home users to produce some very nice documents and presentations.
Both applications come with some fantastic templates, though I was disappointed not to find a large collection of user-created templates online.
Pages, in particular, was what I was most interested in, having familiarity with--but not the budget for--both Quark Xpress and InDesign. However, I discovered a major problem with Pages that made the program so unreliable that I'm now very reluctant to use it for anything that will be shared. After producing dozens of resumés in Pages, exporting them to PDF format, and mailing them to potential employers, I ran into a few that would require me to mail a hard copy.
For some reason which I can no longer recall, I decided to print these resumés at a nearby 24-hour print center. So I exported the PDFs, emailed them to the print center, and when to pick them up. Unfortunately, the printouts were a garbled mess of nonsensical characters. So I tried again, but got the same results. Surely this problem was due to the fact that the print center was printing the documents using PCs and not Macs, I thought. But when I opened the documents on my Mac using Adobe products like Reader or Illustrator--rather than Preview--I found that the problem was not limited to PCs.
After a short time on Apple's support pages, I found others with the same problems and there was no patch or update available to fix it. I can no longer trust Pages to produce documents used by anyone other than myself and shudder to think how many of my resumés and cover letters were disregarded when the receiving party was only able to view a mess of random characters. Shame on Apple for not releasing a fix for this known problem in iWork '06 and I can only hope that it will be taken care of in '07.
EDIT: After reading the comment which said that the PDF problem is system-wide and not iWork specific, I've upgraded my rating to **** from **. I'd probably give it 5-stars if some reliable cross-platform export solution had been present (like a reliable PDF export). - 2007-01-04, 13 of 15 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Solid product
- Having worked on both Macs and PCs with professional-quality design programs, I found iWorks to be a great fit for someone working on his own. The templates are easy to use and modify.
- 2007-01-04, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Amazing
- The iWork suite is amazing. The software has a word processor program and a presentation program. It is amazing because it works, Yes, it works. No need for third party software to organize photos or burn DVDs (conflict galore). The presentation SW is fantastic. I've used the Microsoft product Powerpoint, but Keynote has some very nice features. These features are very eay to understand as well. Presentations done on the Mac, just seem to stand out/above. Products for the Mac just seems to work and work well. Kudos to the Apple, I do not know why it took me so long to convert.
- 2006-12-20, 5 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- very very good
- Its more easy to work in iwork and my papers have better looks
- 2006-11-08, 1 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Beats Microsoft Office... beats it real bad
- For years I used Microsoft office for word processing and slideshows. I hated it with all that is within me. I BEGGED my boss to buy iWork for the office. She refused - if Office was good enough for the peecee using accountants and office managers, it was good enough for us mac-lovin' creatives as well.
When I bought my new iMac for use at home the first software i purchased was iWork. I have not been disappointed. This is the best word processor I have ever used. Definately worth purchasing. - 2006-11-03, 5 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
