Re: iWork 09 support

Greg Titus wrote:
> 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 

Wow, that's quick work :-)

> 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.

Drat.

> 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.

That's a pity, as the LinkBack plugin doesn't work with Pages/Numbers, 
and only with old versions of Keynote.

There's not a whole lot you can do about that of course...

Cheers,

Chris