Re: iWork 09 support

Hi Chris,

I've done some quick reverse-engineering of that using the 30 day free  
download of iWork 09. Unfortunately, they aren't doing any kind of  
generalized updating/embedding architecture. Instead, they've  
specifically shared the code for chart drawing between all 3 apps, and  
the linking is just to a Numbers file alias and chart name, and then  
Pages or Keynote actually opens up and reads the Numbers file to  
update the data and then uses its own copy of the code to render the  
chart.

In short, it's very specific to charts and it isn't generic enough for  
Graffle updating/embedding, so LinkBack is still very likely still the  
only solution.

	- Greg

On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:

> This is probably to early to get any sensible answers, but I'll ask  
> anyway!
>
> There's some kind of live updating/embedding of objects in iWork 09.  
> Does support for that extend to third party apps like OmniGraffle,  
> or do we still have to rely on Linkback plugins/hacks for iWork?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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