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PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Pages 5 features checklist

As you go through the new Pages 5 can you please add an added, missing or altered features here please.

I will start with some culled from the general discussions and if you could correct any errors add them:

Added

1. Right to Left text ie Arabic, Farsi & Hebrew. Uncertain about Pashtu

2. Single model templates. You turn off document text to get rid of the default. Not sure if this then can be mixed and matched with Word Processing templates

3. Able to share outside iCloud

Missing

1. Selecting non-contiguous text gone

2. Outline view appears gone

3. Customizable Toolbar is gone

4. Many templates appear gone

5. Captured pages gone

6. Reorganize pages by dragging gone

7. Duplicate pages gone

8. Subscript/superscript buttons gone

9. Select all instances of a Style is gone

10. Retain zoom level of document gone

11. Facing pages gone

12. Endnotes gone

13. Media Inspector can't find iPhoto library on external drive

14. Update is missing for older installations, Apple is reportedly working on a solution via a redeemable code or update on the ir Support Download site

Altered

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

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

3. Header appears to be multi-column

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

5. Page numbering method changed

6. T.O.C. appears buggy

7. Template file storage location moved - to where?

8. Imported older .pages files are not translating properly

9. Text language is detected automatically now

Letting you know I can't test or verify any of these as I haven't got Mavericks yet.

Peter

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:57 PM

1,554 replies

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Nov 6, 2013 9:43 AM in response to Kenneth Collins1

Entschuldigung aber meine Deutsch ganz schleckt ist, Herr Schulmeister.

Und ich habe Würstel für fingeren. 🙂

Peter

Nov 6, 2013 9:52 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Apple has just posted a list of features "in upcoming releases in the next 6 months"

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

including

Pages

Customize toolbar
Vertical ruler
Improved alignment guides
Improved object placement
Import of cells with images
Improved word counts
Keyboard shortcuts for styles
Manage pages and sections from the thumbnail view

Nov 6, 2013 9:57 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Ja, das sieht man.

Nov 6, 2013 10:00 AM in response to Derick Fay

Derick Fay wrote:

Apple has just posted a list of features "in upcoming releases in the next 6 months"

I see they've been reading the discussions. They wouldn't throw water on it if they didn't know it was a fire.

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Nov 6, 2013 10:05 AM in response to Derick Fay

I agree with Kenneth, this is very unusual for Apple.

Lets continue to hold Apple's feet to the fire.

No sign of the biggies however:

Textbox linking and accurate conversion of Pages '09 files.

Peter

PollyFK

Level 1

8 points

Nov 6, 2013 10:11 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

OK, great. So I'll just close my business and wait an indefinite period until they restore my ability to earn a living using their software?

Polly

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Nov 6, 2013 10:16 AM in response to PollyFK

I gather that was rhetorical, because we all agree with you.

But Apple is such a self centred beast that even this tiny concession is quite amazing.

We are still all in limbo because we have no idea where apple is going with this.

Keep using Pages '09 and give Pages 5 a one star rating in the App Store whilst warning everyone else off.

Peter

PollyFK

Level 1

8 points

Nov 6, 2013 10:36 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Yes, sorry. Just venting. I just don't trust that it will ever be as good as before. And while I can stay with 4.3 for now, I do feel a chill in the air. The love is gone.

Nov 6, 2013 10:44 AM in response to Derick Fay

I'm doing the Snoopy dance....

Just sayin'.....

Nov 6, 2013 10:44 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

The ability to move sections around is also gone. You can create them and delete them, but god forbid you should want to move one around because it's not happening. Who put the idiots in charge of creating this drastically reduced piece of crap??????????????????????????

Lackland

Level 1

13 points

Nov 6, 2013 11:17 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Apple's unusual publication today of a roadmap to restore functionality to Pages was a good first step. But the program will still need to reacquire a way to edit longer documents. At a minimum the immediate roadmap must include restoring at least basic bookmarking so one can edit documents of more than a few pages - a seemingly simple, logical undertaking since Apple has actually been adding bookmarking to many other applications and Google has elaborate online support for it in Docs.

And Apple still needs to disclose how long, at a minimum, it will support iWork '09 so that serious and professional users can make an informed decision how to manage their document libraries, etc., going forward.

enteecee

Level 2

331 points

Nov 6, 2013 11:24 AM in response to Lackland

Lackland wrote:

...

And Apple still needs to disclose how long, at a minimum, it will support iWork '09 so that serious and professional users can make an informed decision how to manage their document libraries, etc., going forward.

that is a fantastic point to make on the Feedback page.

And I'm going to do so. Hope you will, too.

vitessa

Level 1

0 points

Nov 6, 2013 11:25 AM in response to Derick Fay

Pages

Customize toolbar

Vertical ruler

Improved alignment guides

Improved object placement

Import of cells with images

Improved word counts

Keyboard shortcuts for styles

Manage pages and sections from the thumbnail view

Manage pages and sections is an absolute must. Without that function Pages would be worthless. But were is mail merge and import of contacts? Lacking of these feature are the most important issues for me.

Nov 6, 2013 11:32 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Unusual for Apple? Really?

Lets see - MobileMe/iWeb... gone

How many of us have been Mac users long enough to remember "Claris Works", which became Apple Works - and was a rather comprehensive suite of applications that rivaled Microsoft in most areas (if I could use it today, I probably would, as it was 10X more software than this newest iWork, and arguably a better set of apps than iWork 2009!

But Apple killed that off too...

Then we get Pages/Numbers/Keynote - with Pages taking a bit of time to finally be usable (2009). Numbers (2009) is ok (but then again, how hard can a workable spreadsheet app be in the scope of things?), and Keynote is a worthy replacement for PowerPoint (for most people). I didn't even mind there being a bit of a price tag on these apps to offset the cost of development.

We are being reminded how "Free" isn't free. Over the last couple of years, I had finally managed to migrate 95+% of my work over to iWork, growing every closer to shutting the door on MS on my Macs... and now this. What other options are there? OpenOffice derrivatives? Still rather kludge-like and not really functional for me - and certainly doesn't work with my existing library of Pages/iWork documents.

Tim Cook - you are making some serious mistakes... Apple is sliding some in the"innovator" category, while trying to out-Google, Google (free stuff that isn't really free). I do NOT like the direction this is going. And we don't have a Steve Jobs to come bail Apple out again.

enteecee

Level 2

331 points

Nov 6, 2013 12:32 PM in response to Michael Battenfield

Rate on the App Store and leave Feedback:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

And oh yeah- I started computing with Clarisworks and SimCity 1 on my Mac Clone.

Pages 5 features checklist