iWork '09

True, although it's good it's here as well with an added link to the forum discussion so folks that want to follow-up can. Likewise, if a solution is uncovered, it can also be updated here.

New here. I just installed iWork 9.3 according to the instructions (including the retail "patch"), on 10.8.5 Mountain Lion. Something goes wrong when I try to type text in Pages, or start a document from the templates: the text doesn't show up. If I go to outline view, the content flashes on the screen, then disappears, and the page preview is black. Bizarrely, if I export it to PDF or some other format, the whole thing shows up. But I can't actually edit within the program itself.

I have a similar problem to this person on the Apple support forums, but they didn't seem to have gotten a resolution either, and the link to how to do a clean reinstall of iWork that another user posted in that thread appears to have gone dead. I tried using AppCleaner to purge the iWork install and start fresh, but that doesn't work either. I tried setting up a dummy user account just to test if it was a corrupt user preferences issue, but the same problem still appears.

Anyone else experiencing this? Apparently this is a bug or oddity that's happened to other iWork users on (Mountain) Lion systems, so I'm curious if anyone here has figured out how to fix it?

v9.0.4 runs in Tiger, they said it couldn't be done. Have to use Leopard to install it. I get a lot of "warnings" about missing fonts, and, I assume fonts can be transferred to where they're needed. v9.0.5 didnot run in Tiger.

I don't know that sorry. But I think you would be able to read/write documents with old iWork and new iWork, unless you add new features like for instance transitions that are only available in newer versions of Keynote.

According to Apple you need Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.6 and later (found on the iWork 09 Update 3 Page on web archive)

Does anyone know if iW '09 adds any compatibility advantage over iW '08 with newer Documents? 08 is SO MUCH MORE STABLE and NICE to USE, I'd actually go back if there's nothing to gain in compatibility.

Thank you very much. I'm new to os x, just bought a 2007 iMac for 50 euros and am enjoying the experience a lot. I think I've got almost every bit of software needed to really be able to use the old girl right here on the garden!

Great, thanks Scott.

Thanks for the addition. I'll look at it later, too. When I have some more time.

Hi Scott:

Move your alert message up to the top of the page and place it inbetween two <h2>  <\h2> tags for greater visibility.

I didn't see your temporary alert message until after I checked the revisions page.

Thank you very much to whoever uploaded this. I've been looking for this since I started fooling around with Macs and to get it without dealing with the hassles of Ebay is an added bonus. I find it to be very useful since I do a lot of Word documents and Excel spreadsheets and I can edit the files on different computers. Two happy Mac faces up!

Now, it's really official, these 32-bit apps won't be supported beginning with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina (aka Catastrophe or Calamity). As well as QuickTime 7 or Aperture or...

I confirm, iWork'09 3xApps do launch in OSX 10.4.6 minimum & QuickTime low as 7.0.0 & iWork updates do too ..., by tweaking their installers (BBEditing their Contents/*.dist files) to install them, and then introducing "CoreVideo framework" to make them operational. OSX 10.4.5/less didn't work.

iWork '09 relies on a multitude of its own shared libraries, so drag/copying the apps for trying to introduce them into other OSX partitions won't do. Must run out their installers.

Now iWork'09 can run on TIGER 10.4.8 the most reliable hardcore seriously stable version of OSX. It is issues like these, and Apple's dishonesty regarding How Stuff Works, that make 10.4.9+ be unattractive for serious business. CoreVideo IS a chunk of the OS. CoreVideo/updates to it never belonged tucked inside some QT pkgs to be their vehicle.

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I posted new scrnshot, describing wth is corevideo [credit Singh]. It's NOT a library of basic video subroutines like the name implies. It's a very specific feedback loop from the GPU backwards to the "renderer" intent on stopping the rendering of animation frames which would end up looking not-smooth, in favor of devoting rendering power to well-timed frames which do end up looking Smooth.

CoreVideo feedback loop (click to view)

yeah, defeated installer's QT requirement.

The version of QT is not so important with iWork '09, as it turns out, rather, it's the OS version that is the deciding factor.

I investigated it's limitations further and found that it will not run on any Mac OS earlier than 10.4.9

As a bare minimum benchmark to begin with, I installed Mac OS X 10.4, which itself also installs QT v.7.0 - I then modified the iWork '09 installer to install to that OS and QT version, which it did quite happily. But the installed apps failed to run under 10.4. I then incrementally updated the OS in stages, testing iWork after each update. Console errors for each stage were like this one for 10.4.6:

Mac OS X Version 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)
2019-05-24 12:13:12 +1000
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreVideo.framework/Versions/A/CoreVideo
  Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/iWork '09/Frameworks/SFDrawables.framework/Versions/A/SFDrawables
  Reason: image not found
May 24 12:13:39 mac-g4 crashdump[145]: Pages crashed

It wasn't until after I progressively upgraded to 10.4.9, before it would run OK. I didn't update QuickTime from the 10.4 install, leaving it at version 7.0, and it seems to be fine with this.

Thanks for adding the updaters, their .dist files also need modification to get them to install on 10.4.9 and 10.5.x, after which the updated iWork apps run just as fine on 10.4.9 or newer.

I run with OSX 10.4.11 + SU_2009-005 (highest) but I stop at QuickTime 7.1.6+SU because it's got the fastest smoothest graphics & I'm primarily a gaming rig.

I think the installer script for iWork '09 could easily be modified to accommodate QT 7.1.6 and work just fine, too.

...as 10.4.11 was the highest Tiger when 10.5.6 had been released. These requirements not so 'odd' since some similarly dated iLife apps have same requirements, like iDVD v7.0.4 needs 10.4.11 / 10.5.6 also

Interesting but, as with a tiny change made to the installer's script, this software will run quite happily on earlier OS's than it allows with a standard install. - I just had to test it out for myself in 10.5.4

Not that I expect anyone running Tiger would want to run an earlier version than 10.4.11 - Or anyone running Leopard would want to run an earlier version than 10.5.8, given the opportunity. However, it is very doable.

Given that iWork '09 requires QuickTime 7.5.5 installed on the host machine before it will install, and the minimum OS for QT 7.5.5 is 10.4.9, I altered the install script to install to any Mac running 10.4.9 or later. It was simple and easy to do and I didn't hit any gotchas on the way.

This one:

I just found that the recent Keynote, Pages, Numbers and iMovie are free from the App Store for "Macs" running High Sierra or Mojave. Guess this will be a known fact already, though.

Yes, I see that. When the new macOS Mojave were published, opening Pages, Numbers, Keynote noted be about a new version available.

Same note was visible when High Sierra has been published, and I'm still running the macOS that was shipped with the computer (Sierra).

Need to imagine when switching to a newer macOS version that (hopefully) still supports 32-Bit applications *) , but I've tested with Parallels already.

*) Apps and games that not has been updated yet

Thanks, 24bit. I guess this may be helpful for anyone running earlier OS's than that.

— Myself, I still prefer ClarisWorks

I find it odd that it will install and run on Tiger 10.4.11 and Leo 10.5.6 and later, but will refuse to install on an OS between those two.

It's also a bit "chatty", IIRC. Little Snitch may be useful for this one.