Widgets/Questions in Pages 10.2 (replacing iBooks Author) 2020?

As you already have iBooks Author prior to Aug 1, is there no reason why you cannot continue to use it until a time when there is no reason to use it (e.g. possible future Pages feature set)? Moving advanced iBooks Author documents into Pages at this point in time is a sharp pencil to the temple kind of migration experience.

I am afraid, you will lose all these interactive elements.

I am presently transferring iBooks to Pages .... and it’s a mess....

As soon, as you have more than a few pages, an MacBookPro 16GB Ram and SSD will stop working.

It takes hours to make changes in Pages and Pages is not even able to multitask so you could make other, longer taking tasks in the background.

Pages probably did not change much more than the UI since the old iWork times.

I am about stuck with iBook Author cause efficient work in pages on more bigger Book content is not really possible, not only since the good features are missing .... even the basics are not working.

wolfgang2 wrote:

But that means, holding all updates in the system as well and off cause, iBA is not perfect at all, unfortunately it was never really supported by Apple and just ones in a while a bugfix was offered. How ever it was never be really developed.

It is more than likely that iBooks Author will continue to work in Big Sur. Big Sur is likely to be released within the next month & then we will know for sure. As Viking said, if you already have iBooks Author there is no reason not to use it for as long as possible.

I have no specific knowledge of release dates just basing my guess on previous releases.

But that means, holding all updates in the system as well and off cause, iBA is not perfect at all, unfortunately it was never really supported by Apple and just ones in a while a bugfix was offered. How ever it was never be really developed.

I really don’t understand, why Apple supports Pages, which is by far not capable to perform such as iBA.

I give you an example ... just to erase 15 pages out of 1,500 pages takes 6h15 min.

During this time, your Pages is blocked on that MAC ... no multitask to open a parallel file for work.

Meanwhile I habe startet to work on 2 (sometimes on 3) Macs on separate projects, just to escape the endless „Beachball“.

It is like in the old iWorks times. .... Shame on Apple !

Apple's original design motive in creating Pages was for consumer, not professional document creation. A 1,500 page document is not a consumer category document, and attempting to use Pages with its inherent consumer-grade features, when you really need the professional-grade capabilities designed into MS Word (by example), has cost you 6h15m of valuable time.

If you believe that your time would be better invested in those third-party products whose feature set enhances, and does not detract from your productivity, then perhaps Pages (or even iBooks Author) is not the correct tool for you.

If you return to the original .... iBookAuthor ... was the right tool for professional bookwork.

I know that Pages was not made to be a professional tool, but why is Apple giving up all supports on professional software, wether it’s Grafics, Video or now literature ?

The only answer is .... money.

They don’t give a damm what users want ... they want the users, what they earn more money on.

Its a shame.

And .. yes I have to think about another platform.

When Apple turned from FCP7 into FCPX ... it was the same .... time for a change ... and that was a good decision.

Perhaps here it’s the same.

It’s not just the features .... it’s the whole architecture.

Just changing a template on a 800 pages book brings the beachball for almost an hour ... and not enough, if you just want to change another tiny thing .... takes another beachball hour.... and so on.

Pages spend more time in building the miniture pages than to let you work. Multitasking is no topic in that program.

I have a whole list of bugs that don’t let you work, unless you spend hours of let the beachball spin.

This program is made for letters or small booklets but not for books.

Apple is not interested in the commercial users.

Again, it’s time to say goodbye.

Apple did not implement any iBooks Author authoring capability in Pages v10.2. Presently, all you can do is open an iBooks Author document which will be translated it into a Pages document. There are presently limitations on how this is accomplished, and Apple has an explanatory article, Import your iBooks Author book into Pages for Mac.

The Pages product team does not participate in these open, Google archived discussions, and as we are all fellow users here, it is impossible to know what/when answers to future Pages product development questions.