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<blockquote data-quote="dan_f14" data-source="post: 1286453" data-attributes="member: 154483"><p>I thought PDF's opened in Preview by default which is a stock program so it should load automatically. </p><p></p><p>External drives are probably windows based and therefore in NTFS format. Best thing to do there would be to transfer all files to a windows machine that are on the external drive. Then format drive as Fat32 (plug external drive into Mac>open disk utility>select external drive>click erase tab>select Fat32 from drop down menu of format types>select erase). This will enable the drive to be recognised on all operating systems with read/write access. However there is one drawback. Fat32 does not support file sizes above 4Gb, so DVD/Blu-Ray rips and other large video and other large file types would not be suitable for Fat32.</p><p></p><p>On an Office platform I currently run both iWork and Office 2011 Business. I tinkered around with iWork but tended to use Office more because of its universal application. I know iWork can save a copy as office compatible but that never looked the same when opened in Office. The same was true when I used OpenOffice in my Linux days. For true cross platform compatibility you have to use Office because everyone else does. However, after installing Lion I have started using iWork again (taking advantage of versions, etc) and it is truly an amazing program. When using iWork I don't feel like I am making a document, I feel like I am making a piece of art. Does anyone else feel like this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dan_f14, post: 1286453, member: 154483"] I thought PDF's opened in Preview by default which is a stock program so it should load automatically. External drives are probably windows based and therefore in NTFS format. Best thing to do there would be to transfer all files to a windows machine that are on the external drive. Then format drive as Fat32 (plug external drive into Mac>open disk utility>select external drive>click erase tab>select Fat32 from drop down menu of format types>select erase). This will enable the drive to be recognised on all operating systems with read/write access. However there is one drawback. Fat32 does not support file sizes above 4Gb, so DVD/Blu-Ray rips and other large video and other large file types would not be suitable for Fat32. On an Office platform I currently run both iWork and Office 2011 Business. I tinkered around with iWork but tended to use Office more because of its universal application. I know iWork can save a copy as office compatible but that never looked the same when opened in Office. The same was true when I used OpenOffice in my Linux days. For true cross platform compatibility you have to use Office because everyone else does. However, after installing Lion I have started using iWork again (taking advantage of versions, etc) and it is truly an amazing program. When using iWork I don't feel like I am making a document, I feel like I am making a piece of art. Does anyone else feel like this? [/QUOTE]
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