New Improved Features in Pages 5.1
It is not all doom and gloom.
Time to give the programmers some credit for getting some things right.
It is not all doom and gloom.
Time to give the programmers some credit for getting some things right.
New Improved drawing tools.
You can now get holes in objects.
Down to using United/Subtracted/United objects. I have yet to test the limits:
Very Nice! Pity it doesn't work with bitmap images. You can't make a placeholder out of the compound shape (that I know of).
Selecting individual objects is not easy though.
You only get the Grabber/Pointer cursor when over an object, can't lasso objects. At least no way I have found, which makes it awkward to gather up a lot of objects without shifting something accidentally.
Peter
Distributing objects works better than before but still fails to do what is expected.
Neat Horizontal or vertical distribution does spread objects out evenly in the horizontal or vertical plane.
"Evenly" will spread them out in a line connecting the first and last.
I can't get them to all line up horizontally/vertically if they were spread out both horizontally and vertically:
Peter
I didn't mean Group.
I meant Unite/Intersect/Subtract/Exclude.
Peter
I haven't found the bidirectional text improvements yet. Multicolumn text still backwards.
Yeah I saw that. Bit vague wasn't it!
Peter
Lesson to self. Make sure awake state follows steaming hot, black coffee. You are correct. 😉
Type bid in the Help search window. Top item talks about bidirectional text and how it is enabled.
VikingOSX wrote:
Type bid in the Help search window. Top item talks about bidirectional text and how it is enabled.
Is there anything new there since 5.0? It already did bidirectional text before, but supposedly 5.1 now does it better. One major bug, multicolumn, was not fixed as far as I can tell.
Apple could do a better job of articulating change. I wonder if the Help content is updated with the Pages updates?
How are you making the holes? Cannot figure out how to do it.
Still not seeing the vertical ruler. Anbody else?
It's there, as are the customized guides. 🙂
New Improved Features in Pages 5.1