As everyone knows, Apple discontinued Pages for a completely new program (all new code, built from the ground up) that confusingly gave it the same name. Pages5 isn't completely file-compatible with Pages, and at least in the beginning lacked 150 features that Pages had.
I used Pages 4.3 professionally.
Will Pages 4.3 run on macOS Sierra?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), (UI repaired for better esthetics)
Using Pages '09 v4.3 on macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (since 10.12.0). For the most part, it just works. I am using the updated App Store version of Pages '09, not the iWork '09 DVD version. Here are some Sierra anomalies:
For anyone reading this thread;
I have been using Pages 4.3 on Sierra since I asked the question, with these ignorable minor problems: opening and saving long documents take longer, saving takes longer and produces a harmless artifact on the screen (a mysterious black rectangle.) It still has its nice icons, instead of the garish symbols that Apple is now using. All features work as you'd expect. However, Pages is a 32-bit program, and Apple thinks they upgraded it, so its days are likely numbered.
This is about the fourth time that Apple replaced a professional app with an "upgrade" with fewer features, so in the future, I won't use any Apple software that keeps its data in a proprietary format. Converting complex Pages documents to another format can degrade the layout, but otherwise it's fine.
My recommendation: Find the AppleScript that loads pages files into Pages and outputs Doc files and convert all your files. From here on out, when you save a file in Pages format, export it as a doc file. Do this now, because when Pages passes away, the script will no longer work. Paddle your lifeboat to one of the following ships, all of which can use the Doc format and have professional features: NeoOffice (app store), LibreOffice, or Miĉrosoft Word.
Pages is an excellent word processor, and I'm grieved that Apple killed it. (I bought Pages in a box for $79)
"Paddle your lifeboat to one of the following ships, all of which can use the Doc format and have professional features: NeoOffice (app store), LibreOffice, or Miĉrosoft Word."
Only MS Word uses .doc or .docx as it's native format and saves directly to one of these depending on version.
NeoOffice, LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice all save directly to and open directly from .odt (open document text) file format. Files in any of the other listed types, including .doc and .docx, are converted to the native format of each of these three when opened/imported, and are translated to .doc or .docx format when Saved in or exported to that file format.
"Pages is an excellent word processor, and I'm grieved that Apple killed it. (I bought Pages in a box for $79)"
Agreed.
Regards,
Barry
"My recommendation: Find the AppleScript that loads pages files into Pages and outputs Doc files and convert all your files."
Absolutely no clue how to do this.
Pages (old) into Pages (new)??? And then export as a Doc file??
For ALL my countless hundreds/thousands of 4.3 Pages files??!???!
And um.. how do I find an AppleScript (??) and do this? Help?
Thanks.
- Beth
ps: This is horrible, horrible news. My business record-keeping and documents have been wrecked several times by Apple's arbitrary decisions, starting with the death of ClarisWorks, then Appleworks, then Bento, and now the whole iWork suite? I honestly had been postponing my OS upgrade because I was afraid of this kind of thing. Now here we are - another nightmare. As soon as I can figure out how, yes, I'll be paddling with all my might...
Like all things Internet, google it.
You do not need to open Pages '09 documents in Pages 6, export to doc/x directly from Pages '09.
Whilst I sympathise with your complaints as to Apple's actions, this is Apple who is your faithless, unreliable friend in matters business. It has been obvious that that is what it is for many decades and it is not going to change. I have been warning users on this forum and other websites for a very long time. Apple is not going to change.
Peter
Yes.
Not well.
I see internal error message a lot. It crashes. (iWeb has same issue.)
I am not sure but linguistic system is changed a lot or broken.
I've been using Pages 4.3 & Numbers 2.3 in Sierra for a couple of months with no issues in my everyday use.
Pages 4.3 on macOS Sierra
