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iWork is the Apple suite of office application to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations on the Mac and iOS devices.

iWork is the Apple suite of office application to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations on the Mac and iOS devices.

It consists of:

  • Pages '09 : With advanced tools for writing and easy page layout, your documents in Pages are beautiful beyond words.
  • Numbers '09 : Numbers helps you get more from your data with easy-to-create formulas, one-click charts and table categories.
  • Keynote '09 : New cinematic animations, transitions and effects in Keynote will keep your audience captivated.

the apps are available as Mac and iOS with some differences due to different features of the platforms.

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Apple iWork Mime Types

I was wondering what the mime type for iWork's Pages is? And also what the mime type is for the rest of the software in the iWork suite? I looked around online and I didn't see it anywhere.
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Is there a way to export (say, from an NSAttributedString representation) directly to an iWork Pages format?

Looking at https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSAttributedString_AppKitAdditions/Reference/Reference.html, there are quite a few document formats that AppKit makes it easy to export to,…
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Creating a new table in iWork numbers on a specific sheet using applescript

I am having trouble creating a new table on a specific sheet using Applescript unless the sheet I want insert the new table in is either new or current selected. The general form of the code I am using is: tell application "Numbers" tell…
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UIDocumentInteractionController - our own app shows up in list

Our app can deal with say Pages files as an example and needs to both hand off files to other applications as well as receive files from other applications. So we edit the plist CFBundleDocumentTypes to say that we can deal with Pages files.…
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Converting MS Word 2002 Templates from PC to Mac

I have to convert several hundred MS Word 2002 Templates (on the PC) to work on the Macintosh. I have to evaluate whether the Word Templates can be run in iWork Pages and Microsoft Word for the Mac. I am unable to convert the following: Word…
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Batch convert Mac iWork files to PDF on the command line

I'm trying to batch convert a bunch of assorted iWork files (Numbers, Pages, Keynote) to PDF on the command line. I've been trying cups-filter but there's no MIME type filter for the iWork types. I then looked into using qlmanage to generate the…
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Generating Powerpoint or Keynote from XML (or via a Ruby gem?)

I'm looking for a nice way to generate either a Keynote file from XML or a Powerpoint file that I can then import to Keynote. Basically, I'm looking for a simple human-writable markup format (for easy scripting) that can be exported into slides. I…
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Applescript has no permissions to save file

I'm trying to write a script that will convert .numbers documents to .csv documents. It needs to be executable from the command line so I can use it in a pre-commit git hook. I've written an AppleScript to take a path to a numbers file and export it…
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Creation of vector of unknown size in Excel

I am attempting to translate my existing Matlab code into Numbers (basically Excel). In Matlab, I have the following code: clear all; clc; n = 30 x = 1:(n-1) T = 295; D = T./(n-x) E = T/n for i=1:(n-2) C(i) = D(i+1) - D(i) end hold…
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How to make a range in Numbers (iWork) using JXA

I'm using JXA for automating a process using Numbers app. What I need is to select a range of cells to apply width, but JXA doesn't allow me to get them. According to apple documentation I only need to use make or push the created object inside of…
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Decompressing Snappy Files Missing Stream Identifier Chunk and CRC-32C Checksum

The iWork 2013 file format includes .iwa (iWork Archive) files stored within a .zip file. "IWA files are stored in Snappy's framing format, though they do not adhere rigorously to the spec. In particular, they do not include the required Stream…
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Is it possible to do some interop with iWork?

I know it is possible with the .NET framework of Microsoft to do some interoperability with Microsoft Office. Is there something that exist that resembles to it for iWork and the Cocoa framework? Edit: Here are more details. I would like to create…
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Duplicate a numbers sheet with applescript

I'm trying to duplicate a sheet in a numbers file (I need a new sheet everyday based on a template) using AppleScript. I'm really new to AppleScript but I'm already using it to fill-in some cells with results I get from a python script I run but…
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Exporting data to iWork Numbers

Has anyone tried exporting data to Numbers in iWork? I want to generate a spreadsheet programmatically but I'm not having much success. I've tried unzipping a .numbers document and analysing the XML to see if I could interpret it but it's far too…
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Decoding an .iwa file

I am looking to view the contents of an .iwa file in my Apple Numbers project. It seems like the format is a protobuf wrapped in snappy. I was wondering if there was a relatively simple/crude way to view the text contents of the data. I tried with a…
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