Q: Where has the Page Layout choice for Pages iOS 8 gone?
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Nov 3, 2014 12:56 PMby BaySmith,With all due respect to a Level 7 Pages guru, the fact that you have to ask what 'Page Layout format for a new document' is gives me pause...
In Pages 4.3 the open dialog box shows Page Layout as a default choice with a plethora of templates associated with the blank versions.
In Pages 5.5 you must select the basic word processing document, then click on the Document button on the tool bar. Then, deselect the three check boxes for Header, Footer and Document Body and then agree to convert the document to Page Layout view in the resulting pop down dialogue box. Great new intuitive design that Apple can be proud of...
I can then open and work with this document in iOS on my iPad, but cannot create that document on the iPad. In the iOS or Mac v5.5 open template box, you can select a Page Layout template, but it is only by guessing that you get the right one. Then you have to delete all the boiler plate to get a working blank document.
The Page Layout format is, for most users, all they will ever need for simple design projects. The option of going the InDesign route, which in typical Adobe fashion, is beyond the pocket book (and comprehension for that matter) of the average newsletter designer.
I have given workshops and tech support for Mac (and MS Office) for the last 29 years. I find it very disappointing that Apple has taken the path to dumb down their MSWord beater to get iPad synchrony with the Mac version. They should have taken the path of bringing the iPad version up to the Mac version.
Perhaps the conspiracy theorists are right that Apple is dumbing down Pages (and now Aperture,) so that Microsoft and Adobe will continue to support a Mac version of Office and Creative Suite (Cloud). The irony is that Microsoft originally developed Word for the Mac back in the DOS days with no GUI to be had for Windows machines (I still have an original unopened Word 4.2 sitting in my office.) Adobe's early success was cemented by Apple licensing Postscript for the LaserWriter in 1985 to give professional output for vector graphics.
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Nov 4, 2014 9:02 AMby Kilgore-Trout,Here ya' go. You should be able to figure out how to get there using this: http://help.apple.com/pages/ipad/2.5/
If you are unhappy with Apple's design choices, you can tell them here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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Dec 27, 2014 12:21 PMby CalChan,Hi James, I have the same issue- I can't seem to find page layout mode either after combing the entire interface. Through the link you gave, I found some mention of accessing page layout mode, but... that doesn't seem to exist:
Click [icon] in the toolbar... where is that icon in iOS Pages?? This is maybe a mistake and they're referring to Pages for OSX? Anyways, at this point I would even settle for a way to Page Break somehow on a document that began as a page layout document (no text). I keep tapping a blank space but it doesn't give the option to page break. Any ideas, or do I have to start this document over again from scratch?
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Dec 28, 2014 5:13 AMby Tom Gewecke,BaySmith wrote:
I find it very disappointing that Apple has taken the path to dumb down their MSWord beater to get iPad synchrony with the Mac version. They should have taken the path of bringing the iPad version up to the Mac version.
Vast numbers of users agree with you, ever since they found out this happened back in 2013. Make sure you join them in expressing your views via the feedback channel and also via a Review in the app store, so that Apple will see them.
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Sep 4, 2016 8:40 PMby dnunz,Well, after lots of searching and experimenting, found that the word processing pages and inserting Page break will work as a semi-page layout document if you only have iOS version of Pages -
And still couldn't find any way to actually create or change a word processing iOS document to page layout while in iOS.
But, from Apple's support page:
Pages for iOS (iPad): Add line, page, and column breaks
If you don’t see Page Break, your document is a page layout document and doesn’t use page breaks. In that case, open the document in Pages on your Mac, add a new page, then open the document again on your iOS device.
