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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

Jan 27, 2014 8:52 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

I can walk you through what I had to do if you really want.

Peter

Jan 27, 2014 9:14 PM in response to Sleveddicus

I figured out a compromise; I made the section that I wanted to be "3.a." a subsection of "3." by further indenting it and changing its list-item to the letter "A." (and did the same for the next section with "B."). I'd still prefer to have them aligned with the top-list items and just labeled "3.a." / "3.b.", but it gets the job done.

Thanks again.

Edited for grammar.

Jan 27, 2014 9:10 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

I figured out a compromise, which I detailed in a comment reply to myself. (Which compromise was what you were trying to tell me to do when we missed each other in the thread).

Yeah, Pages 5 really doesn't like for people to mess too much with list format. Kind of weird. Anyway, thanks for your help.

Slev

rest1234

Level 1

8 points

Feb 11, 2014 1:34 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

So far, I am getting from this discussion that pages is nothing more than a glorified 'Notes'. My biggest frustration is trying to learn to work it through experimentation rather than finding instructions somewhere. If I could find an app that would be Microsoft Word as I use it... I would buy it.

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Feb 11, 2014 1:41 PM in response to rest1234

No way Pages is a "notes", but try LibreOffice [free] if you want something more MsOffice style.

There is always MsOffice for Mac.

Peter

rest1234

Level 1

8 points

Feb 11, 2014 3:18 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thanks for the suggestion.

Feb 19, 2014 12:10 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

moving pages to different location in the document from the thumbnails gone

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Feb 19, 2014 1:21 PM in response to realtoraz

That has been on the list since almost the beginning.

Still not reinstated in Pages 5.1.

Peter

Miggl

Level 1

89 points

Feb 26, 2014 4:54 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Alignment of list numbers seems to be missing. Not sure if it was there before, but this feature is important for academic formatting in some research paper formats.

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Mar 18, 2014 12:09 PM in response to Miggl

Two articles I have found on the subject of the new iWork suite:

By Jean-Louis Gassee ex Apple executive and creator of that wonderful OS that might have been, BeOS:

http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/11/10/new-iwork-another-missed-opportunity-to-set -expectations/

And Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law professor, on his week from Apple ****:

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65697513808/on-the-pathological-way-apple-deals-wi th-its-customers

Peter

Mar 18, 2014 1:10 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Thanks for waking me up, Peter. I had almost forgotten the issue. The latest update of Pages came more than two months ago, and Apple has been incredibly quiet since then. No more fixes or reinstated functionality.

Surely their developers are doing something, but what? A problem that annoys me more than Pages is that there still is no support for the Nikon AW1 camera's RAW files. That camera was released half a year ago. If Apple chooses to dumb down their word processor and if they do not even try to support cameras by one of two biggest camera manufacturers in the world, what are they up to?

And if I may add another off-topic rant, why can I still not delete whole music albums from my iPhone? That functionality seems to have been removed in September last year with iOS 7.

PeterBreis0807 Author

Level 8

41,196 points

Mar 18, 2014 1:31 PM in response to SermoDaturCunctis

Hi Magnus

Apple's self set 6 month deadline for their very shortlist of fixes for Pages 5 is almost up.

Not much in view.

…and I am off to the Genius Bar with documented proof of bad synching on my iPod Touch and Aperture.

I only do it clinch the point I have been making over a month and a half, but they have been steadfastly denying.

Apple now just denies, denies, denies and when confronted with a mountain of hard facts, they don't want to talk about it.

As their grip on smartphones, tablets etc steadily slips, and Mac sales fall, this does not bode well for anyone who has drunk the Kool Aid, knowingly or not.

I have a lot riding on Apple. I don't want to have to go back to saving all my files on NTFS drives and looking around for bolt holes if Apple goes south on me again.

What on Earth is Apple up to? Has it slipped into corporate dementia?

Peter