How to create placeholders in Pages

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How to create placeholders in Pages

How do I create Placeholders in my document, that allow for images to be dragged from iPhoto or from a Finder window into the Placeholder.

I am running the latest version of Yosemite as well as the latest version of Pages.

In the old version of Pages (I think it was called Pages '09), one simply created a Placeholder, by placing a shape in your document. You then set all of the attributes of the Placeholder, such as shape, size, frame, shadow, placement etc. Once you are happy you drag a photo in from the inspector panel on the right of the screen. Make sure that the image, is correctly sized within the Placeholder, by adjusting the Mask. Then all you do is duplicate this Placeholder, throughout your document and all the attributes stay exactly the same, you then just drag photo's into the various placeholders, and they automatically resize to the Placeholder.

Then Apple got it into their heads to downgrade Pages '09 to the latest crap version.....

Now you have a stupid pop-up media box at the top of your screen. You insert the photo, from iPhoto, set all the attributes, i.e. frame, size, shadow, placement etc. You can then duplicate this throughout your document. However, in order to change the image, you need to "right-click" select "replace image", then the stupid pop up window opens up and you can select your photo. The problem with this process, is that the pop-up window defaults back to the start of your file tree, which means lots of searching time going through all your events to find the right image, and you have to do this search for EVERY photo in your document. When you insert 20-30 images into every document, this becomes a very tedious process, resembling windoze word!

The image that you initially placed, cannot be changed by the drag and drop process, if you try to drag from either a finder window or iPhoto, the photo will not go into the frame, it places it onto the page, in large size so you then have to set all the attributes!!

If there is no way of fixing this, does anyone know how I can UPGRADE BACK TO PAGES '09?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 25, 2015 8:18 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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Mar 25, 2015 8:35 AM in response to DarrelT

Deposit, scale, and position your image in your document with any appropriate text wrap. Select the image, and from the Format menu > Advanced, choose Define as Media Placeholder. Save this as a template. In future usage, you can drag/drop an image of equal or greater size on this media placeholder, and larger images will automatically scale within the image boundaries.

No point complaining to us, or Apple about Pages v5. This is a user-to-user site, and Apple simply is not here.

If you have an iWork '09 DVD, you can install it on Yosemite — immediately followed by the Apple iWork 9.3 updater — which brings last revisions of iWork '09 applications. The DVD contents alone will not run on Yosemite. Be certain to run Disk Utility to verify/repair permissions on your boot drive after the updater has run.

Export your Pages v5 documents to Pages '09, and then move that /Applications/Pages.app (v5) into an arbitrary named folder, and then compress it. After you do that, double-clicking Pages '09 documents will open them in Pages '09. Otherwise, they will always open in Pages v5.

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Answer 2

DarrelT Author

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Mar 25, 2015 11:15 AM in response to VikingOSX

Dear VikingOSX,

Much obliged, you have solved my problem, this will make life so much easier in the future for me!!

My love for Pages may return !!!

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