I am trying to draw a map of the Old Testament in Pages. Frankly, it is very frustrating. I first of all drew an outline map and scanned it into Pages. Can you not use Pages to draw? Is there a "draw" template somewhere? Is there another piece of software I need to accomplish what I am trying to do? Hope someone can help me out. Thanks.
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You can draw in Pages but considering Apple has done this before in other applications, it is a pretty rubbish experience.
The Shapes menu on the Toolbar has a wide variety of shapes, all of which are editable. At the bottom of the menu is a pen tool with which you can draw bezier curves. It can do quite a lot but is frustratingly clumsy and annoying. I take pride in making it do anything, but what a waste of time, compared with using a real drawing program.
I'd save a lot tooth enamel and just go to a real third party drawing application and save the work as a pdf to bring into Pages. If you have it, use Adobe Illustrator.
If you don't want to spend that kind of money there are plenty of cheaper alternatives. The best of the crop IMHO is Sketch, available in the App Store, which whilst it doesn't have everything plus the kitchen sink like Illustrator, it has one of the most innovative user interfaces around.
If you still want to use Pages' Drawing Tool I'd keep the map very diagrammatic and minimalist.
Peter
Pages has some drawing abilities but is not a drawing application. It is better to get a drawing application like Eazydraw or any other of the zillion graphical applications you can find on Internet.
How can I draw on a map in Pages?
