If you're an iWork 08 user, then you may want to run a software update, as Apple has just pushed out updates for all three applications. As ever, there's hugely informative release notes: for Pages 3.0.2 and Numbers 1.0.2 "[t]his update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X" while the Keynote 4.0.2 update "primarily addresses performance issues while playing or exporting presentations."On the TUAW Intel testbed here in the UK, the updates weigh in at 32.4MB, 29.3MB and 27.4MB for Keynote, Pages and Numbers respectively.
Keynote 4.0.2 at Apple.com
Pages 3.0.2 at Apple.com
Numbers 1.0.2 at Apple.com
Thanks to all those who sent this in!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-29-2008 @ 5:09PM
Allen said...
Downloaded the updates … but when I try to install, I get an alert that an eligible application cannot be found in the location /Applications. And yet, that is indeed where those applications actually are! What gives?
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1-29-2008 @ 6:59PM
Sandeep Gupta said...
same here.....any idea how to fix this?
1-29-2008 @ 5:25PM
anonymous said...
worked fine for me
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1-29-2008 @ 5:47PM
Quine said...
I hope this fixed some of the numerous numbers bugs x_x and the couple pages bugs. keynote has seemed to work excellently for me, though I remember hearing of a bug that caused the comp to crash when you hit play so I sure hope that's fixed.
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1-29-2008 @ 6:04PM
XGM said...
I wish i could put on some mathematical formulas into iWork. Since i have a physics course it would help if i had something to easily put in formulas and such.
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1-29-2008 @ 6:08PM
dan said...
@XGM You should give LatexIT a try. It is a simplified version of Latex which only generates equations and the commands while scary at first are easy to get the hang of.
For example, for the greek symbol "mu" type \mu for square root of 2 \sqrt{2}.
LatexIt generates a transparent PDF graphic of the equation which you can drag into your document. It comes out extremely professional (indeed most professional Physics textbooks are set using Latex!)
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1-29-2008 @ 6:39PM
Micah said...
Keynote had some major issue exporting to Quicktime. I tried to use it to put some graphs and stuff together for a video. It would not play well with any transitions or anything more complicated than changing to the next slide. Hopefully they fixed that.
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1-29-2008 @ 7:05PM
paul said...
Unless they made it less bloated, I'll stick to using WriteRoom.
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1-29-2008 @ 7:48PM
Timzilla said...
The update to Keynote fixes some of the export to Quicktime timing issues. Now you can export to full size, custom settings a .mov export with recorded timing.
However, try to add a voice over to that and the timing is again, way way off.
This is a bit of an improvement, but still without the ability to create properly timed narrated presentation that can be exported and burned to DVD at full quality, Keynote still does not work as advertised...
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1-29-2008 @ 7:56PM
Micah said...
I downloaded the update and tested the stuff that I was doing. It works perfectly, of course the project was due 2 weeks ago and I had to find another work around.
As for the Audio, I ended up just popping it in iMovie and Garageband and doing the audio there. You have more control of the audio in those programs anyway.
1-29-2008 @ 8:34PM
rich m said...
I can't download it, it says I'm current.
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1-29-2008 @ 8:35PM
rich m said...
just fixed it, needed to recreate the iwork '08 folder in applications
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1-29-2008 @ 9:56PM
Allen said...
Aha! Thanks for the tip.
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1-30-2008 @ 2:15PM
Sam Gross said...
Software update isn't even finding the updates. Maybe Allen, Sandeep, and Rich's problems were the reason?
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1-31-2008 @ 11:34AM
Steve in Denmark said...
Like the man says, you need to recreate the iWork '08 (written like that) folder in Applications - and put the three programmes in it - then all is peace and love.
2-06-2008 @ 4:38AM
Shirl said...
Can anybody help with how to make a pdf file that is small enough to email from a Numbers document that's very big. I added thumbnails of photos to a Numbers spreadsheet (I thought the thumbnails would be small, but no) and the resulting 10 pg. file was 94 MB. Numbers' smallest pdf setting produced a 35 MB pdf file -- way too big to be useful for anything. Acrobat Distiller won't recognize Numbers files (how come?), and the Numbers file won't go into InDesign (a tedious solution but I can distill better from InDesign). Numbers isn't much use to me if I can't get the file into a shareable size! Any ideas?
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3-04-2008 @ 2:44PM
ssh said...
Depending on how small it needs to be, try using repeat compression (e.g. somefile.zip.dmg).