My title says it all. I'm using the new Pages, but I'm working with someone who's probably using Lion, and he doesn't think he can download the new iWork apps, so I have to keep exporting my work to Pages '09 format before emailing it to him. If his Mac can't be updated to Mavericks (I know not all Intel Macs can be, like my own early 2008 MacBook), is there hope for him?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), New for 2012. 8Gb
Pages 5 requires Mavericks, to my understanding.
Regards,
Barry
There are two avenues of hope for him: 1) convince everyone he trades documents with to use Pages 09, which is stable and has a much larger feature set than the very buggy Pages 5.1 or 2) wait until Apple brings iWork out of its unofficial beta and offers a usuable product. Actually, there is a thrid option: use Word or some competing software like LibreOffice.
Thanks Barry and Roger for the two replies: I think I know where I am now. I was perhaps a bit precipitate to 'upgrade' to Pages 5 soon after I upgraded my iMac to Mavericks. My own main reason was that my hope that the (to me) crazy split between Word Processing and Page Layout in the earlier versions of Pages would be healed: I haven't yet found out how much this is true in the new product. I've really been looking for a cheap alternative to the now defunct original Adobe (previously Aldus) PageMaker, and I have always hoped Pages would be that, given Apple's traditional strength with graphics. As to word processing, I don't think if one considers that term to cover just writing, without many illustrations or tricky bits of text block manipulation, I can use MS Word, NeoOffice etc etc. I don't particularly see what Pages has ever brought to the party viewed purely as a word processor.
Just my two (euro) cents.
Thanks again
Try LibreOffice, Swift Publishing or Scribus.
Peter
Thanks, had a quick look. LibreOffice looks interesting; Scribus looks quite interesting, but I need to see if the Mac interface is native enough for me to use it intuitively (maybe it is). Not sure why you included Swift Publishing - as I have tried to explain, my area of interest is short illustrated material like flyers and private communications, not books - let's call it illustrated word processing. Pages can do this, but it may be too restricted and buggy (I'm still finding out) and it has a backwards compatibility problem: but then so does Scribus, on a first reading anyway.
Anyway, food for thought. Thanks again.
Sorry I miss-named Swift Publisher.
It is a regular DTP application.
Peter
Ah, now you're talking. Looks interesting - tho it's sad that Apple seems to have messed up so badly with one of their flagship apps. BTW I am also looking at iStudio Publisher.
Thanks
What's the oldest version of MacOS that supports Pages 5?
