Q: Pages 5 features checklist
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Jan 13, 2015 8:18 PMby LA Writer,I know you posted a long time ago (2013) but I'm having terrible PAGES issues and wonder how you are able to use '09 version. My computer, perhaps because I have downloaded newer OS, labels the '09 files .tef and won't allow me to save. Have you figure out how to do this?
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Jan 27, 2015 6:32 PMby Kurt Weber,If you save them anywhere else but iCloud they will not be named "tef" files. Save them locally on your Mac.
Pages 09 is still working great on my machine, too. I will probably use it until it is no longer able to work at this rate. Nothing has compelled me to update so far.
Pages 09 still works on my iOS 8 device, too. I have it backed up in case I accidentally upgrade it. All my devices, including an old iBook are using Pages 09 beautifully with no problems.
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Nov 15, 2015 10:07 AMby Mark Rushton,There were incremental improvements in a recent update (12 Nov 2015), but it still has a loooong way to go. I cannot fathom how, over two years later, the Pages team still hasn't added, for example, linked text boxes (flowing text). The newly-updated version of Pages 5 will apparently open Pages '08 and '09 files, but flowing text boxes are now static individual boxes. That's fine if you just need to open and print them again, but any major editing, or re-use as a template, is lost without the flow. Frustrating.
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Nov 15, 2015 11:47 AMby PeterBreis0807,Can't say anyone who cares about Pages actually cares what the heck happens with Pages 5.xxx.
After two long years where predictably the little we got from Apple didn't change much, it is clear that any updating is not going to happen or at such a slow pace that my predictions of almost 10 years just to get back to where Pages '09 was in 2013, look wildly optimistic.
Just waiting for Affinity Publisher next year, so I can finally give up on even Pages '09.
To cap it off I have to look for a replacement for Aperture as well.
I'm pretty well giving up on Apple. It has now taken up the baton from Microsoft* as the black hole of hope. So much is buggy, malfunctioning, insanely convoluted, inept or just Fairy Floss that there isn't much to look forward to as a platform. I barely even bother going into the Apple Store anymore.
Peter
* Microsoft's Surface is actually genuinely innovative. What have we got? The Apple Watch! If anyone showed up wearing one to an interview with me, I'd be quietly crossing them off the list.
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Nov 15, 2015 12:53 PMby VikingOSX,The last email that I exchanged with the Affinity leadership over the summer indicated that their initial goal for Publisher was to create document types that extend what can be done with Designer and Photo, with a concentration on strong typography and PDF features. Initially, though subject to evolving decisions, they see Publisher as more DTP than just a word processor. The finished product may surprise us, but my thoughts are that it will not be the solitary replacement for Pages, or Word.
In an understatement, there is overdue room for improvement at Apple — in decisions, quality deliverables, and leadership.
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Nov 15, 2015 1:34 PMby PeterBreis0807,I suspected as much, but a competent well designed DTP solution is better than nothing. And basically nothing is what Apple has left us with.
I have put in a request with Affinity to add CSS styles because that would be a useful feature in DTP production and help transition material to eBooks and Web pages.
Peter
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Nov 15, 2015 4:23 PMby PeterBreis0807,The long slow decline of good User Design continues at Apple.
For a better understanding of what has gone wrong and how far wrong:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_6.ht ml
http://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/
Peter
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Jan 14, 2016 1:46 PMby VikingOSX,Mark,
The Apple product teams are not reading, or participating in these user-to-user community posts. As Pages '09 v4.3 before it, all releases of Pages v5 have a Pages menu : Provide Pages Feedback menu item that communicates directly with the Pages product team.
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Jul 8, 2016 8:08 PMby PeterBreis0807,It is now July 2016, almost 3 years later, and despite the 10,000% certainty of those who "knew" exactly what Apple was going to do, Pages 5 is just about where they left it. What a surprise!
Just a few more problems (plenty of others) for anyone finding this thread:
1. All vector graphics copied and pasted into other Apps from Pages 5 are rendered as 72dpi png bitmaps
2. Pages 5 ignores colorspaces when Exporting pdfs and turns them all into sRGB
3. The reason for the lockups and slow downs of documents in Pages 5 is probably due to bad coding. It progressively can't manage large numbers of objects and text. It bogs down even on a Mac Pro with RAID and lots of RAM, with relatively small numbers of objects, far less than Pages '09 easily copes with.
