The iPad version of
Apple’s iWork suite has been updated with various enhancements, including new language support, better landscape view (for Pages), bug fixes (mostly for Numbers), and more. Each application can be downloaded individually by iPad users via the iTunes App Store. The entire suite costs $29.99, while each app in part costs $9.99.
Version 1.1 of
Pages gets support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish, enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel, improved reliability when exporting Microsoft Word documents, and more. The toolbar and ruler are now available in wide-screen landscape view, while documents now automatically fit to page width in landscape view. The update also addresses issues with exporting documents previously imported from Microsoft Word, and fixes various small bugs.
Download Pages for iPad (Update / Buy) Numbers gets additional languages as well, (French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish) and Enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel. Version 1.1 improves reliability when importing Numbers ’09 spreadsheets, and addresses a chart font-size issue when exporting spreadsheets previously imported from Microsoft Excel, to name a few additional changes. Bug fixes are also listed on its iTunes page.
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Keynote, Apple has added Support for French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish, enhanced Back/Front slider in the Arrange panel, and a new option to show additional alignment guides at smaller intervals. The update also improves reliability when importing Keynote ’09 presentations, or when importing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. It addresses a chart font size issue when exporting presentations previously imported from Microsoft PowerPoint and fixes an issue preventing access to some table cell color fills in landscape mode with an external keyboard, Apple says.
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