QuakeFX
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Q: Pages 5 and comments

I stepped into the Cloud and like it so far. I take photos with my iPhone which I can easily drop into my iCloud document, only to continue typing on my MacBook. What's good about comments is that they stick to your pictures. So I can easily rearrange them wherever they provide value with image-specific data locked in place.

 

I read you can no longer print comments with Pages 5, but neither did Acrobat XL Pro read any when I exported to pdf.

I rather don't install any Microsoft junk and I'd like to wirelessly print from my phone. What would enable me to do so?

Posted on Apr 2, 2015 10:19 AM

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Q: Pages 5 and comments

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  • by pmiles,

    pmiles pmiles Apr 2, 2015 10:22 AM in response to QuakeFX
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    Apr 2, 2015 10:22 AM in response to QuakeFX

    Do you have an AirPrint-enabled printer?

    Print from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

  • by QuakeFX,

    QuakeFX QuakeFX Apr 3, 2015 7:18 AM in response to pmiles
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    Apr 3, 2015 7:18 AM in response to pmiles

    Yes I do. What I meant by that is that I want to be able to work on the document wherever I am and still be able to print from my phone, which is not possible if I export to Microsoft or Pages 4.

     

    To my understanding, if I want to arrange like 5 images on a page and add text below them, I have a ton of text boxes. I feel like I'm doing it wrong, for a student it's not uncommon to do something like that.

     

    As I said I work primarily on my MacBook but continue on the iPhone on my way to school and quickly print it right before class. I then adjust the digital copy according to feedback and end up with a 40 page document with the proces both written and visual.

  • by pmiles,

    pmiles pmiles Apr 3, 2015 7:54 AM in response to QuakeFX
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    Apr 3, 2015 7:54 AM in response to QuakeFX

    You can create a document using Pages for Mac at home on your MacBook and print it using AirPrint on your AirPrint enabled printer at home, correct?

    You can then transfer that same document to your phone which is running Pages for iOS and print it to the very same printer using AirPrint, correct?

    Then when you get to school, you can can print the very same document from your phone using AirPrint to their AirPrint enabled printer, correct?

     

    If the school doesn't have an AirPrint enabled printer, you can't use AirPrint.

    If the school doesn't allow you to wireless access their printer, using AirPrint, you won't be able to print using AirPrint.

    If either of the above is the case, you will need to transfer your document to their server in order to print it.  If they don't use the same software as you do, you will need to convert it to a format their software can read in order to print it from their computers.

    If the above is not the case, there should be no reason why you can't print the document at school as-is.  You don't need to convert a document for printing, but you do need to convert a document if you are attempting to share it with others who DO NOT use the same software that you do.

     

    I'm just trying to get at the part where the document works and doesn't work and why.

    Why are you even exporting the document as Microsoft or Pages 4?  The printer could care less what software you use, only the device you are printing from cares what software you use.  The only reason you would need to convert the document is to make it readable on a different device that doesn't run your particular software.

  • by QuakeFX,

    QuakeFX QuakeFX Apr 3, 2015 8:16 AM in response to pmiles
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    Apr 3, 2015 8:16 AM in response to pmiles

    The printing part works fine either straight from iOS or by supplying a pdf on usb.

    It's about the comments or a workaround that preferably fits into that 'workflow'.

  • by pmiles,

    pmiles pmiles Apr 3, 2015 8:33 AM in response to QuakeFX
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    Apr 3, 2015 8:33 AM in response to QuakeFX

    Okay well if that is all you are asking... you can't from Pages 5.  The feature was removed from the application.  The only workaround is to save the document as a Pages '09 document and open it in version 4... which is no longer available in the App Store.  You would have to have the app saved somewhere.  I suggest you provide feedback to Apple about this and request that they put the feature back in.

     

    https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

     

    You could use Grab (it's in your Utilities folder located in Applications) to do a screen grab of the notes to print them, but it's obviously not as nice a solution.