Q: Pages 5 features checklist
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Oct 25, 2013 3:54 PMby Frank Lowney1,This is an excellent and useful effort. Eventually, this should be shared with Apple. We should not assume that they are monitoring this forum closely enough.
Although I'm sure that Apple consciously dropped features in order to effect a common experience across desktop, web and mobile, I am equally certain that they are committed to restoring those functions ASAP.
Our ability to articulate just what we think is most important will be a guiding light to Apple. It will be appreciated.
Thus, I propose that, once we complete the list, we find ways to indicate which of those items are most important to us. Perhaps someone who is conversant with one of those online survey systems could arrange something that will do that.
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Oct 25, 2013 4:59 PMby Tristan Hubsch,cosmofromwatertown wrote:
*** - I can no longer paste an image into a textbox or table, which is a crucial feature.
You are correct: no images into textboxes or tables.
However, the first problem at least has a workaround: Put the textbox under/over/next to the image, then group them. Pages 5.0 will treat the group as an image: single-click on the group (anyhere non-transparent) and click the "Format" brush in the toolbar to adjust the appearance of the group. Double-click on any non-transparent part of the image, and manipulate the image within the group; double-click on the text, and manipulate the text within the group.
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Oct 25, 2013 5:14 PMby PeterBreis0807,RedDuke wrote:
Thanks for compiling the list, Peter.
A question: On the updated version, moving/copying pages in the side bar has been crossed through; can the pages be manipulated in the side bar? ......am I missing something?
To echo the general sentiment on this thread, I too am very disappointed with this version of Pages (.....perhaps Apple understood why they should not charge for it ! )
As the list grew longer and the bold subheads harder to spot, I introduced a line by line indication.
+ Next to an item means it has been Added as a feature.
Crossed through means that it has been Removed as a feature.
↪ Means it has been Altered.
Peter
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Oct 25, 2013 5:12 PMby PeterBreis0807,Frank Lowney1 wrote:
This is an excellent and useful effort. Eventually, this should be shared with Apple. We should not assume that they are monitoring this forum closely enough.
Although I'm sure that Apple consciously dropped features in order to effect a common experience across desktop, web and mobile, I am equally certain that they are committed to restoring those functions ASAP.
Our ability to articulate just what we think is most important will be a guiding light to Apple. It will be appreciated.
Thus, I propose that, once we complete the list, we find ways to indicate which of those items are most important to us. Perhaps someone who is conversant with one of those online survey systems could arrange something that will do that.
I will submit this to Apple when I have a chance to check out every single item.
I shall try and make it as accurate as I can humanly make it and accompany it with a case for retaining Pages '09 or better still making it or iBooks Author a new level of Pro Office suite.
Will this move Apple from its long term course of converting its customer base to iOS by stealth? I doubt I have the persuasive powers to change Apple's long term strategic vision. All I hope is that I can delay it a bit longer to give us all a chance to find an alternative.
As Apple moves away from us, having thrown us overboard, we need to move away from Apple and find something else that will serve us well. Linux anyone?
Peter
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Oct 25, 2013 6:03 PMby TodFromIndiana,@linda2009: Sorry to reply so late to your question about Mtn. Lion vs. Snow Leopard.
Saving in the background: It didn't like it at first but have gotten used to it. As far as using disk space, I don't think it does. I'm not qualified to provide and technical details, and I have a 740GB fusion drive that has still 360GB available, so i dont worry about slices of disk space here and there. I haven't read anything about Mav being any different from Mtn Lion.
Upgrading from Snow Leo to Mtn Lion might be worth it if you're interested in trying the features introduced in Lion, Mtn Lion and Mav. You might feel like staying where you are as long as your daily apps and workflow still work well for you. My wife's still on Snow Leo as it does everything she needs it to do. OTOH I like to upgrade and try new things out, so I've upgraded through the years.
One idea that might help you decide is to get a cheap 500MB hard drive, install Mav on it, then migrate your current user data to it through the Migration Assistant. Try it out for a few days and see how it goes. If you like it, then boot back into your Snow Leo drive, make a backup, and then install Mav over it. If, after working with it for a while, you decide it isn't your cup of tea, clone your backed up Snow Leo to your oviginal boot drive.
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Oct 25, 2013 6:10 PMby PeterBreis0807,…and be prepared to spend enormous hours trying to untangle multiple threads of emails, photos, Tunes, files etc. not to mention the later versions of files that will no longer open in an older system.
Oh, and wonder what happened to all that stuff you remember having but can't quite work out where it is…
Peter
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Oct 25, 2013 6:24 PMby MacPhelim,Noticed a little while ago that the bottom status bar is gone. There's an option to show word count, but nothing to show other info (and the word count box is ugly). I often like to know how many pages I've written yet I'm not sure how to do that now other than opening the page thumbnails and scrolling to the bottom. That takes up lots more real estate and is a lot less useful than the status bar at the bottom. The change has made the interface more complicated, not less.
Also, I don't think I mentioned earlier but I can't get paste-and-match-style to work. Used to be cmd-shift-V. Now the keyboard shortcut is cmd-shift-option-V, requiring contortionist fingers to work and it doesn't even work. I haven't yet gotten something to properly paste using the target style.
