Feb 27, 2014 Apple iWork 2013 represents the biggest update to this popular productivity suite in recent years. This version brings a unified interface and features set to OS X and iOS, allowing you to work across all platforms without compromising efficiency.
- Apple's iWork productivity suite has never been a world beater. Pitted against the near-omnipresent Microsoft Office and Google’s free web-based solutions and only available on Apple products.
- Oct 28, 2012 iWork, Apple's productivity suite, is the easiest way to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layout are easy using Pages.
With the October 2013 iWork update, the new UI is great but it seems one cannot store documents as 'flat file' any more. This really limits my ability to store the files, essentially ruling self-hosted version control (git, hg etc.) out of the picture.
The problem is:
adding a new picture to a document creates a new file within the bundle, which should be explicitly added to the version control
removing pictures removes them from the bundle but – again – version control should be notified.
I tried the trick of zipping the bundle and renaming it back to '.pages' (the way iWork'09 handled flat files) but it does not work.
Has anyone else been bit by this – do you have work-arounds (other than using iCloud, Dropbox – I'm fine with some of the documents living there but for some others I'd like to keep closer to my chest)?
Workarounds can be either on the iWork side, or ways that I get i.e. 'hg' (Mercurial) to version the bundle directories nicely.
Addendum
Iwork 2013 Torrent
As the SO item says, I solved this by hg addremove
. Other suggestions and discussion are still welcome. 🙂
Instructions
For this method to work, you will need a Hackintosh running OS X Mavericks, since only Mavericks is eligible for the iWork free update program. This method also works for real Macs that didn't qualify for the free update program. If your Hackintosh already has a retail copy of iWork installed, it's unclear whether this method will still work-- feel free to share your experiences in the comments.
Iwork 2013 Free Download
Step 1: Download a free trial of iWork 2009 from this mirror on Softpedia. To do so, click the 'External Mirror 1 [DMG]' download button (make sure not to accidentally click any of the ads).DOWNLOAD: Apple iWork '09: Free Download
Step 2: Mac OS X will download a DMG file. Double-click the file, which will open in a new Finder window. Inside that window, double-click 'Install iWork 09 Trial'.
Step 3: Run the iWork 2009 installer. Once installed, the Mac App Store will recognize that a copy of iWork already exists on your Hackintosh, and assume that you require a free upgrade to iWork 2013. You may have to restart your computer to see the changes.
Step 4: Update the iWork 2009 trial normally, through the Mac App Store. It will become a full version of iWork 2013. Congratulations, you now own a full copy of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote!
NOTE: If you haven't already, you will need to disable the 'Gatekeeper' feature on Mac OS X for this method to work. To do so, open the System Preferences app, and go to Security & Privacy -> General -> 'Allow apps downloaded from: Anywhere'.
SOURCE: How to make the iWork suite a free download for current Mac owners that don't own the apps already. [Reddit]