List of Pages Pages 5.2 fixes and bugs

I guess yo can now enter text without having to doubleclick. Activate the box and place the cursor with a single click in the text.

Images placed using the menu item Insert > Choose (shift-cmd-V) will place the image as an inline image with the anchor at the insertion point. Then set the Text Wrap to Inline with text for Pages '09 behavior. Automatic is the default paste attibute.

Also, images can be pasted or dragged anywhere on a page in a word processing document, and the image anchor will go at the insertion point. Then just set the Text Wrap to Inline. If no insertion point is active on the page, the image will paste as floating (Stay on Page).

Once formatted as Move with Text, whether as Inline, Automatic, Around, etc., copying or pasting the image elsewhere in a document retains this attribute.

Images still don't drag and drop or paste into the insertion point in text

You still need to drag it onto the document:

Format > Arrange > Move with Text > Text Wrap > Inline with Text

A multi-step process with concealed steps.

Peter

Sorry for not quoting, just a followup on the thread post a couple weeks ago. Just want to say been pasting images into docs at insertion point without difficulty.

Eric

Peter, I think "vendetta" is a bit harsh. The last update shows me that they aren't ignorant or don't "don't care".

Anyone who has some experience in software development knows how complex it is to craft a well working program with as little bugs as the iWork apps. From my side they get a lot of respect for what they have achieved so far.

The better an app is, the more annoying are these little details, like one or two steps more or less to place an image.

But my overall opinion is that it basically works flawlessly despite some needed features are missing. We all know that even Apple doesn't always get it right at the first shot. Give them a chance to improve. One or two such updates and I see me switching to the new version.

Until then I'll continue to submit feedback and try to be clear, constructive and polite. My experience shows me that they do take that seriously.

Peter,

The linked text box function does not work in 5.2 either. I have some multi-page documents that I wish to update from an earlier Pages version. This should be seemless, easy, a piece of cake. Why has Apple made such a hash of this? They do themselves much harm by releasing any "new" or update that doesn't improve or at least maintain the function for the previous versions. One should not have to find work arounds for shoddy programming. It seems that whoever is developing Pages doesn't know squat about advanced page layout functions that have been available to the publishing industry for years. If they want to put out a fluffy version of MS Word, at least acknowledge that this is the intent. No one should lose content or have fromatting problems from any older version of Pages to the latest and greatest or be warned not to use this for any business format that one uses to actually earn an living.

marilyn175

Ya, I think I'll stay with 4.3. If I were a betting man, I would say that they haven't made this a top priority. And sufficient evidence would be seeing a small team of people "improving" iWork. "Upgrading" to 5 caused issues for me, and left a lot out that I wanted (very small details for most, probably). Thankfully there was a way to install 4.3 back onto my computer and remove 5 completely. Unfortunately, now the App Store haunts me daily to let me know that 5.2 is ready for install.

NO THANKS!!

+10 for PeterBreis0807!

Thanks for that. I don't know how I missed it.

Page content from a Pages 09 document is cut off on a Pages 5.2 document.

I appear to be in a Page Layout Catch-22- fortunately I have two workarounds (albeit painful) for the problem described below.

Workaround #1- Go back to Pages 9

Workaround #2- Print to PDF from Pages 5.2, then use Preview to print my document.

The problem:

I print my own 5x7 cards, front and back, so the page size I had on Mountain Lion and Pages 09 is actually 7x10 (the Printer can't feed the other way-10x7). Unfortunately, Apple gave up WYSIWYG long ago and I found with testing that I had to set Page Size to my own custom 7x10, and Page orientation to landscape to make it all work. ( I could not rely on the Preview in the Pages dialog box)

I just recently upgraded to OSx10.9. Now, in Pages 5.2 there seems to be a conflict between the Page Size (found under the File Menu) and the Document Format in the inspector which has the new simplified look.

There are 3 variables, and I haven't been able to get any of the 9 combinations to keep my previous content on the card. It keeps getting cut off. I even tried some combinations that had a bad preview. I suspect I could make an entirely new card and get it to work, but I have at least 50 cards already made so I'll have to use the workaround for those.

Has anyone else had this problem? The three variables that I've found and tried to manipulate are:

1) File Menu Page Size

2) File Menu Page Orientation

3) Inspector, Document Format Page Orientation

I appologize if this is a repeat. I did try searching and reading through all the pages posts before posting

More on this:

I tried switching to Page Layout mode, but it didn't make any difference.

And,

More testing shows that there really aren't 3 variables. Clicking on the Inspector's Document Format Page Orientation does change the File Menu Page Orientation setting as you would expect.

It seems more related to the lack of custom page size choices. I tried making the page size with the height and width swapped, even though my printer can't print that way, and the only page size that shows up in the Inspector window is "Other". In other words, even though I have several custom page sizes to choose from in the File Menu Page Setup dialog, the only thing that shows in the Inspector is Other. So maybe I can't print custom page sizes in the new pages?