Does Pages support mathML?

Yes, the article is out of date, but the process described in the article allows you to connect a WebDAV server to Dropbox. Like I said in my previous post, I tried it -- just about an hour ago, in fact -- and it works. I'd be interested to see your opinion of it, or that of someone else. (I didn't find anything that mentioned how to hook up these apps to Google Drive or other cloud services. All the more reason to use iCloud, I guess.)

Which file formats did you test and from what device to what other device?

I don't have enough gadgets to do it here.

Peter

My workflow for this test:

• I created a document on my MacBook (OS X 10.9; Pages 5.0.1), and saved it to my Dropbox folder.
• Using Pages for iOS on my iPhone (because my grandson was tied up on my iPad), I tapped the + in the upper left corner of the documents list.
• I chose the Copy from WebDAV command.
• Since I had previously followed the steps in the article to connect my Dropbox account to the WebDAV server, it displayed the contents of my Dropbox account. I selected the document I had saved from Pages for Mac, and went to work.

Didn't have to jump through any special hoops at all. Once you're connected to the WebDAV server, you're in.

Also, here's what "didn't work":

• From my iPhone still, I opened the Dropbox app, tapped the file I had just edited in Pages, and chose the Share > Copy Link command. (Here's the link, BTW: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h1xr1ictwzal1fz/gNZKnJxaSm.)
• Thinking I should be able to send that link to anyone, whether he or she has a Dropbox account or not, and anyone with the link could open the file. Opening that link in Safari on my Mac, without logging in to Dropbox, the file showed up in the browser (as a thumbnail), and I chose the Download option.
• In my Downloads folder, it showed up, but it appeared as a folder, not as a Pages file (even though it had the Pages extension, it didn't have the extension now). I tried 2 things...
  • In Pages, I navigated to that folder/file, and was able to open it without any changes. Pages recognized it as a Pages file, even without the extension (which isn't surprising, I don't think).
  • In Finder, I manually added the .pages extension, selected another file (to remove focus from this shared file), and then double-clicked the file I had just added the extension to. It opened in Pages.

So I had quotes around "didn't work" above, because I'd still consider this as having worked. It worked for me because I [sort of] knew what I was doing. However, probably not so much for Joe New Computer User off the street, or Grandma Jones up in Queensland that you want to send your Christmas update to.

So, yes it works, but the solution isn't a free solution (the article explains that), and it's not a "save the file, double-click to open" type of scenario. But then Grandma Jones probably isn't using Dropbox anyway.

"Probably isn't" turns out to be "sure is".

Exactly this case posted just an hour ago, where they see the folder and can't open it in Pages.

Peter