How do I get double-pages view in Pages 5.0

"Use A3 size document, landscape, and two columns."

Which gives you a view of two columns of text, with huge margins to left and right, and a skinny gutter between:

which isn't quite the same as a view of facing pages, where the 'gutter' represents the sum of the 'inside' margins of the facing pages, each of which is to be visually the same as the outside margin on the same page when the two are seen as facing pages in a book.

Regards,

Barry

Simple answer workaround; Use A3 size document, landscape, and two columns.

You can now open saved pdf's as two page viewable.

How to form landscape; Menu bar > View > Inspector > Document Set up > Document/Section: (Select) Document > Page Orientation: (Select) Landscape shaped box.

or

Shift-Command-P (Page setup...) > (Page Attributes) Orientation: Select landscape, instead of portrait

How to set A3; Shift-Command-P (Page setup...) > (Page Attributes) Paper Size: (Drop down menu) Manage Custom Sizes: + > (Select) Untitled (You may have to scroll), and name as A3 (return) > Paper Size: 297mm (Width), 420.2mm (Height). > OK > OK.

How to form two columns;

Just double the inside margin Barry.

The layout is not the issue, it is the page management.

Simpler to keep using Pages '09 v4.3 which has a huge list of other productivity improvements, not to mention is compatible with far more users and much more portable.

Peter

How to set, “Gutter” space between columns;

Menu bar > View > Inspector > Format > Layout > Columns > Click dropdown triangle to display/hide column data > Double click a gutter value to set the space between columns. A gutter space value double that of the margin will give you a document equal to two portrait A4 pages.

Margins;

Menu bar > View > Inspector > Document Set up > Document > Document Margins.

Note that changing between A4 and A3 will change the column gutter size, while margins stay the same.

Because I want to work in two page view, and I want to view the PDF in two page view.

How to save as template; Menu bar > File > Save as Template… > Save… > (Type a name) > Where: (Choose somewhere you like for easy access) > Save (Return). It’s now a template, so when you open it, choose, “New Document”.

Change back to A4 if you need.

"How to set, “Gutter” space between columns;

Menu bar > View > Inspector > Format > Layout > Columns > Click dropdown triangle to display/hide column data > Double click a gutter value to set the space between columns. A gutter space value double that of the margin will give you a document equal to two portrait A4 pages."

Thanks!

I did a brief search for that before posting the message above, but obviously it was what one of my vice-principal's called a "boy look" 😊

Regards,

Barry

The pdf would number every second page and you would need to remove the 2 columns from an A3 converted to A4 with every single object on the right hand half disappearing off the page. Good luck getting them back.

Not a sensible method IMHO when all you need to do is use Pages '09.

Peter

OK, changing between A4-A3 only works with plain text. Objects stay put.

Stay with A3 if you want objects, and:

two page view workings

two page view printing (on single sheet of paper, single sided)

two page view pdf

Think of it as two column, which is what it is. Page numbering is then correct i.e. two column, one page (A3).

You don't. Amazing I know

This is pretty bothersome, and I've been hoping an answer from an expert would come in.

As a cheap work around, I've selected View-> Show Page Thumbnails, and stretche the right-side border of that so I can scroll to get the previous and next page side by side.

But it shouldn't have to be that way. Especially with the full-screen capabilities, we should be able to view the document in "spreads." There's no reason this feature should be missing in an upgrade.

But it shouldn't have to be that way. Especially with the full-screen capabilities, we should be able to view the document in "spreads." There's no reason this feature should be missing in an upgrade.

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Sure there is. You can't do it in ios, so they don't want you to be able to do it on mac

That's true, but if you follow through all the threads on what no longer works, you'll find that the core if it all is about compatibility with ios versions of pages. Apple even said as much in one if the replies.