I have written a few comments on a page document using pages 5.5. My question is can you print the document with the comments on the margins? or is there a way to export the document as a pdf with the comments on the side? Thank you
mbp, Mac OS X (10.4.7)
No. No version of Pages v5 (including 5.5 on Yosemite) will export or print inserted comments. Been this way for a year now.
No. No version of Pages v5 (including 5.5 on Yosemite) will export or print inserted comments. Been this way for a year now.
Thank you VikingOSX, it is a bit surprising that apple doesn't allow to print your comments or export them. I had to share these comment with a student who had a very old version of pages. I found that only solution was to export the document to word (.docx) and then export the .docx to pdf. It is a little bit sad that I am going to have to do this all the time if I want to use pages.
I totally agree. Seems like a glaring omission. It is really important to me to be able to annotate documents and then use hardcopy with the comments printed in meetings.
I agree too! A comment should be no more difficult to code for than a footnote. I'm struck by how primitive Pages is, losing functions even as its versions advance. Apple just as soon say "we don't make application software anymore ... you really ought to go back to the Microsoft world."
Same with Pages' reviewer function. Can't choose a default editor color. Can't do multiple versions of edits using a different color for the second round. The styles editor is awful, esp. for bulleted lists. Can't print comments! You should be able, as in Scrivener, to convert comments into in-line annotations - what's the problem??? Scrivener can do it.
But, frankly, all Apple's app software is becoming c$#p! Look at the mess that iTunes is. iPhoto. Try exporting Mail in any sensible way. Try adding a new entry into Address Book from an email - opens in a slender panel where you can't even see the name fields. Try exporting your contacts into a useable spreadsheet. Add a new tag to a pdf or Pages document and the entire finder freezes and you have to shut it down.
Apple - if you can't write functional software for the very OS you control, why don't you farm it out and stop posing iWork as real software? Let someone else do it correctly, someone who'll listen to customer needs?
Worse, you offer feedback to Apple within the problematic program or here, or submit a crash report, and who at Apple is listening? No one, apparently. What changes does it bring? None!
Am I going back to a PC? No. Only because that was a hellish nightmare too painful to bear again - "fatal error" "blue screen of death" "your registry might be contaminated - you have to format your drive and reinstall the OS from your original discs - with your original serial # that you obtained in 1983 ...." A Mac seems to be the lesser of the two evils. But the software's no longer a joy - it's become a pain in the ***. And nobody at Apple seems to give a ****.
(Interestingly, Apple does have software that automatically inserts asterisks for words pertaining to one's butt and the word that rhymes with dam. Fancy. Wish you could apply that same ingenuity to fixing defective programs. I probably wouldn't need to use asterisk-requiring cuss words.)
I totally agree. I don't want to buy Word but I might just have to now. Apple I am so disappointed. I have been your biggest fan. Now I am questioning that loyalty!!!!
Current exported Pages v5.5.3 comments status on Yosemite 10.10.3:
I agree, I am constantly frustrated that I can't print documents with comments on the document. Word for Mac 2011 doesn't let you print comments without also printing all the formatting changes in comment bubbles as well - very frustrating! I have to send my mark-ups to my PC colleagues and have them print things for me before meetings - it's embarrassing.
Can you print the comments from a pages 5.5 document?
