ODF from Apple?

kazar (apparently) - 04:45am Oct 20, 2007 PST
via email - Datatude Ltd., strategies and solutions

In another thread, Paul Bradstreet wrote:
> Just set up our new iMac (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo), but Appleworks keeps
> crashing. Ensured I have the latest Appleworks update, but it's
> crash-after-crash. Have kept my old(er) iMac, so I haven't entirely lost
> the thousands of AW documents I want to keep (some as templates). Not sure
> I would have upgraded if I'd known about this issue...!

this kind of thing is exactly why I'm trying to move to the OpenDoc
format ... and OpenOffice.org has gone a long way with their Aqua
version. But certainly it would be nice if Apple themselves produced a
suite that plays well with ODF, if not one that uses it as the default
format for Keynote, Numbers, and

I'm curious whether iWork saves (or whether a future version will save)
in opendoc formats? I understand Leopard will support ODF and TextEdit
will support it. Anyone?

Meanwhile, I really need to hunt through archived documents to convert
my AppleWorks (and even ClarisWorks) docs to MS Office formats, and then
to ODF as, hopefully, if the ODF dream works out as planned -- their
final permanent format.

kazar