How do I get Pages 4.3?

DRC,

I tried your suggestions. When I connect to the App Store and click on download Pages, I says I need 10.9 (running 10.7). So I click the Buy button anyway and get the dialog. That seems to be the end of the road.

D.R.C.

Hunt around and see if you can locate an AppleScript to automatically print all your AppleWorks files to .pdfs or save as .doc files from AppleWorks.

Also test some in OpenOffice or LibreOffice which should be able to open them.

Peter

Ways and means.

Insert the metadata in the file itself. Make it readable in other words. I think Appleworks had this as a function.

Spotlight will read content so it will be searchable.

I found this:

set appleworksFolder to choose folder
set thePath to POSIX path of appleworksFolder as string
tell application "Finder"
set folderItems to files of appleworksFolder
repeat with aFile in folderItems
    set {name:fileName, name extension:nameExtension} to aFile
    set filePath to POSIX path of (aFile as alias) as string
    if nameExtension is not "txt" then
        set theLocation to POSIX path of (aFile as text)
        set baseName to text 1 thru ((get offset of "." & nameExtension in fileName) - 1) of fileName
        set destLocation to (thePath & baseName & ".pdf")
        set theCommand to "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/./convert -f \"" & filePath & "\"" & " -o " & "\"" & destLocation & "\"" & " -j \"application/pdf\""
        do shell script theCommand
    else
        tell application "Finder" to delete aFile
    end if
end repeat
end tell

from:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9822487/using-automator-or-applescript-or-bot h-to-recursively-print-documents-to-pdf

Also:

http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=36646

http://www.xraymag.com/pdfs/xray_v4n4_pdf_applescript.pdf

http://www.maclife.com/article/features/15_automator_and_applescripts_you_can’t_ live_without

Peter

Open iTunes and click on Podcasts and subscribe to:

Mac Automation Made Simple with Ben Waldie

In one of the tutorials "Creating an Automator PDF Workflow" he has an example very close to what you want.

Peter

5/23/2014- FWIW, I deleted the new version of Pages and am now running Pages 4.3 on Mavericks. I called Tech Support and they were able to walk me through the install. So, it IS POSSIBLE. Tech support also let me know that they have received lots of communication regarding many of the issues with the new version (for me, it was the lack of options that were included in 4.3) and that they were working to bring many of these back. I was told that they have a pretty small crew working on this program- hopefully they will beef this up so that it can legitimately compete with Microsoft Word.

Pages 4.3 works great on Mavericks!!

This is an old thread but hopefully someone could help.

I just got a new MBP and must find a way to install the very last version of iWork 09 because I absolutely need functions that were stripped out when Apple brought out Pages 5, etc.

So, I got the old iWork 09 DVD from Amazon but it installed the very first version of iWork 09.

Then I found somewhere the download for an update that installed Pages 4.2 (1008), Keynote 5.2 (1125) and Numbers 2.2 (516).

However, on my old MBP, the versions I have are Pages 4.3 (1048), Keynote 5.3 (1170), and Numbers 2.2 (554).

I case this makes any difference, my old MBP runs Yosemite 10.10.3 with the last updates to iWork 09, while the new MBP runs 10.10.4.

Two Questions:

(1) Is there any way to get those last versions of iWork 09 listed immediately above?

(2) Also, are there any crucial differences between the versions of iWork 09 I now have on the new MBP and the versions I have on the old MBP?

Here. Updates DVD only to latest versions of iWork '09.

Thank you so much!