Q: Pages 5 features checklist

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

 

trip1ex wrote:

 

Your words "not entirely reinstated" also mean Apple reinstated up to 99.99% of the features and workflows so I guess we agree there too.

 

You are just making up that 99.99%, which is NOT what I said.

 

Did Apple reinstate the editing functions from the older QuickTime? No. They remain exactly the same.

 

Did they reinstate AppleWorks? No. I can not get at my tax records.

 

Did Apple reinstate HyperCard making all the thousands of stacks available again? No.

 

FileMaker has canned Bento leaving the Beto users nowhere to go as FileMaker simply doesn't do what Bento did and it doesn't open Bento files.

 

Even with Final Cut Pro, after quite a wait it is nowhere near this concocted 99.99%

 

You may just be fooling around with software, or even throwing a spanner in the works for something you don't even use (like some here), but others need to get work done and have vital files in Pages.

 

Are you just an Apple stooge running a black ops for the corporation? What otherwise is your motivation?

 

Peter

"Reinstated up to 99.9%" is just another way of saying "did not entirely reinstate."   Same meaning.

"99.9%"  without the "up to" in front of it is your number not mine.

Peter,   How do you get Tabbed Finder and Tagging in Snow Leopard?  Are you saying you can get these in Snow Leopard?  Guess I'm confused.  Could you clarify?

linda2009 wrote:

 

If it's not doing that anymore, then is it trying to behave like an iPhone?  You know most text in lower case letters, hardly using Caps.

 

Seems like more "dumbing-down."

No, iOS automatically captializes the first character in a new sentence, has for a very long time... its autocorrect is really quite intelligent while OS X's is lagging behind. Interesting Pages used to autocapitalize the first word in a sentence at all. I filed a report with Apple to bring autocapitalizing of each new sentence to all apps on OS X, well besides where it doesn't make sense like in Terminal.

Remember folks, complainig here won't do any good, but filing you feedback to Apple will. It's great we have a list being compiled - I've filed several reports so far I otherwise wouldn't have discovered on my own for a while. With enough feedback, they'll bring back a lot of features in future releases.

Also wanted to say, check out iCloud.com to see if the changed/removed features still behave as you expect there. For example, there are still alignment guides on iCloud.com.

papalapapp wrote:

 

Uelef wrote:

 

I have to disagree in one point what people wrote here: textbox linking is still possible but it works not the same way as in Pages ’09.

 

Here's an article I wrote about textbox linking in Pages 5.0 (sorry: in German):

http://www.ratschlag24.com/pages-5.0-textfelder-miteinander-verknuepfen

 

Intersting read. It seems to be a different feature, more like masking. Text flows from one box to the next, but once you have "joined" them, they merge into one singe new shape that you can't separate any more. Meaning you can't move, resize or delete one of those boxes.

 

But, cool new feature for whom it is useful.

This text-box linking only works within a single page, or at least I haven't managed to make it continue a column (in a newsletter) on a later page. For what it is worth (for those who do not read German): 1. create two text-boxes; 2. select both of them; 3. in the Format/Arrange side-bar (bottom), click on the "Unite" button.

I just opened Pages for the first time since updating to the most recent version it this morning.

All of the text options are on the right side now, instead of neatly at the top like before (e.g. font, alignment and spacing). Is there any way to move all of those things back where they were?

Peter;

     Please do not forget pasting/inserting images/shapes into textboxes so that a caption can be added to an illustration. This is crucial to the books I write.

Thanks

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

 

That allows shaped textboxes but not Text Linking which spans unconnected textboxes and is essential to most layout work.

 

Added

 

+ Unite overlapping Textboxes

 

Peter

I agree; my response was to Uelef, who suggested the method as a new implementation of textbox linking. I just wasn't sure whether the "Unite" could perhaps somehow be made to unite textboxes on different pages. If it could, the functionality would be similar to the text linking accross otherwise unconnected boxes. (The "Union" operation does also unite disconnected/non-contiguous boxes, as long as they are on the same page, as best as I can tell.)

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

 

Big difference in meaning and I really object to you putting those words into my mouth.

 

These major changes that a lot of Users are now facing are not trivial and I can see no real reason for them. Especially as Apple has a whole lot more important things to fix.

 

I am becoming aware that where once I could run a studio of Macs with only minor maintenance I am being taken off my real work to constantly fight fires started by Apple.

 

Besides the fire fighting a lot of my thinking is having to go into trying to follow hidden processes and diversions and weirdness that cuts into my productivity.

 

Again I question your motivation in sweeping real issues under the carpet.

 

Peter

First you put words in my mouth.  Second there is no difference in meaning. 

Third, no one is facing any changes.  I fully expect those who don't want reduced functionality will continue working with what they were working with before the announcement.

No one is sweeping any issues under the carpet. 

I just reflected on the overreaction that seems fairly common any change is implemented and that this smells similar to what happened with iM and FCX.  And that no one lost anything here.  Nothing was destroyed. 

Have a little perspective is all I said.