Pages 5 features checklist

Apple's knowledge base has some of the harder to spot removals although they do not list all of those discovered by Users here:

Updated Check List

New Pages 5 added, removed or altered features:

Added

+ Right to Left text

+ Single model templates. No More Word Processing/Layout templates

+ Share outside iCloud

+ Phonetic Guide for Chinese & Japanese

+ Custom Template names can be changed inside the Template Chooser by right clicking

+ Custom Templates can be deleted inside the Template Chooser by right clicking

+ Text language is detected automatically

+ Collaboration

+ Unite/Subtract overlapping Textboxes

+ Unite/Subtract overlapping Shapes

+ Extra Shadow effects

+ Double click to mask image

+ Instant Alpha target zoom

+ 16 more languages

+ Multiple T.O.C. and can have them for each section

Removed

Select non-contiguous text

Outline view

Customizable Toolbar

135 templates

Capture pages/sections

Drag reorganize pages

Duplicate pages

Delete page

Manage Pages

Subscript/superscript buttons

Select all instances of a Style

Retain zoom level of document

Facing pages

Layout Margins

Media Inspector links to iPhoto library on external drive

Media Inspector links to Aperture Library

Styles Drawer

Merge Fields

Drag and Drop VCards

Default Start Up page

Vertical Ruler

Drag out Vertical (and Horizontal) Alignment Guides

Style Function key shortcuts

Bookmarks

Hyperlinks to external documents

Images within Tables

Mathtype Equations/Formulae within Tables (and other Objects?)

Grapher Equations/Formulae within Tables (and other Objects?)

Import Styles

Clean Import of older .pages formatting

Full User Guide (there is a short online guide missing many features)

Search Sidebar

Open Type features

Textbox linking

Background Object selectable

Storyboards

Text to Tables

Tables to Text

Tables in Headers/Footers

Export to .rtf

Import from .rtf

Multiple Comments view

T.O.C. clean numbering

Selective formating in Character Styles

Insert File Name

Search in Media Browser

Bullet points in comments

Search comments

Two up view

Paste and keep style

Custom Auto-correct

Find & Replace special characters eg paragraph returns

Auto-Dates on opening document

Speech to Text

Format Bar

Open Pages '08 documents

Headers in Tables

Sync with iOS6

Auto capitalise sentence start

Open .doc files

Roman Numeral Page Numbers

Character count including spaces

Import linked Numbers Charts

Styles including bulletted lists

Recent fonts at top of Font List

Page of Page Count at foot of Window

Full Screen background color

Font name matching between OSX and iOS

Copy/Paste from Pages '09 to Pages 5

Certain Fonts eg WingDings

Saving onto Windows server

Status bar

Drag out inserted image to Finder.

Uninstall permanently

Rotate Tables

Rotate Charts

Display non-printable margins

Group pie wedges in Charts

OSX Spotlight Metadata

Custom number formats in charts

Table fills

Copy Paste of citation text and footnotes

Change tracking for non-body text

Open Recent from Template Chooser

Opentype features

Copy/Paste Thumbnails across documents

Insert Filename

Altered

↪ Pages '09 files saved from Pages 5 in Maverick are not protected by a simple name change eg (converted appended)

↪ Pages '09 files previewed on iPad via iCloud are irrevocably converted

↪ Update is missing for older installations, Apple is reportedly working on a solution via a redeemable code or update on their Support Download site

↪ Wrap methods have been cut back severely

↪ Documents reconverted back to Pages '09 lose all template information

↪ Language set under Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar now document wide

↪ Subscript/superscript text is now a convoluted route Gear > Advanced options > Baseline > Subscript/Superscript

↪ Headers and Footers appear to be multi-column

↪ Text is not wrapping in Footers

↪ New file format (but still .pages?) not backwardly compatible

↪ Page numbering method changed

↪ Custom Templates are now stored in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.pages (a package)

↪ AppleScript Library for Pages 5 has changed with many classes and commands removed which indicates how the feature lists have been slashed

↪ Character Styles are in the Text Inspector under Bold, Italic etc

↪ Tabbing within Table cells appears to be inconsistent, tabbing internally with numbers.

↪ Drag and Drop text only works with .txt files now

↪ EndNote plugin is partially broken unable to cite in footnotes and problems with in-text numbering

↪ List options are now in a pop-down menu in the contextual Inspector

↪ .doc no longer supported, only .docx

↪ Text highlighting is now under Format > gear icon > Advanced Options > Character Fill Color > Color

↪ Mail Merge has changed. Some people are reporting links not working despite Merge is still in the Insert Menu

↪ Merging Table cells is now: select the cell/s > Format > Table > Merge

↪ Unmerge cells only undoes the above

↪ Table Borders is now: select the cell/s > Format > Table > Cell > click on triangle > choose

↪ Quicklook preview of Pages '09 files in Maverick is reportedly buggy

↪ Layout Breaks work differently. You select the paragraphs you want as an exception and then change the column numbers. Currently can't find how to set before and after spacing or margin inset btw This is a totally undocumented and hidden procedure.

↪ Word Count is now Menu > View > Show Word Count

↪ Bookmarks are missing in Pages 5 but are still retained if exported back to Pages '09

↪ Bolding requires clicking on style and checking Emphasis

↪ Save as… is back

Dalavia wrote:

Adobe InDesign is the page layout app that I used to use (in an earlier version) before I changed over to Pages. It is a powerful DTP app, but not nearly as intuitive as Pages 4.3.

I tried installing this latest version using the link provided, but I kept getting repeated Error messages. My guess (and that's all it is) is that the free download might not be compatible with OS 10.9 Mavericks.

That is a major restriction with OSX. It is difficult to maintain compatibility across OS versions and this will rapidly be the fate of Pages '09 which is of course why most here do not see it as a solution at all now that Apple has removed it from the App Store.

A curious decision since Apple was selling it very successfully and it was consistently in the top 3 sellers.

Simultaneously they also removed iCloud support for it as well. Also curious.

Peter

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5534

Possibly. I'm across forums and can't quite remember what I posted here, nothing that I can think which would be a problem.

Maybe the mods are getting itchy trigger fingers?

If they start censoring valid comments, I'll take this whole thing off their site and then we can really say what we think!

That is starting to happen already as other sites pick up on the problems Apple has caused. Unfortunately too many of those get advertising from the Apple ecosphere and are putting a twist on the story that the posters are not saying themselves. A few even claimed that many users on these forums are actually welcoming the changes!

Peter

Yes I spotted that one!

Looks like the thought police have gotten their instructions and are starting to clamp down.

Mentioning the censorship I guess is also subject to censorship.

As is apparently getting updates to the "No worries, you still have the previous Pages '09"

Peter