Recommendation for creating magazine pdf

This is one of 14 competent Newsletter templates that come with Pages '09.

It won't be much point emailing them to you, unless you have Pages '09, Pages 6.3 will destroy most of the features it can't handle. First to go will be Facing Pages, Layout Breaks and any rotated Tables.

When you see them side by side with Pages 6.3's templates you can see just how dumbed down Pages 6.3 is.

Peter

Here are all the 14 multipage (all come with many layouts in each template) Newsletter templates viewed in the Template Chooser.

Even in the Chooser Pages '09 is leagues ahead of Pages 6.3. You can zoom the template previews (control at bottom) and fan through the template previews to see the complete document. The multiple layouts (each of which can contain several pages in one swoop) can be inserted at will into your document. Pages 6.3 only has the one insertion and then you have to clumsily duplicate pages to build a document.

Peter

1. If you are not going to print Pages is fine, as it does not have adequate color control for cmyk.

2. Work with images at 72dpi actual size, this will mean sizing a placeholder image then correcting and cropping a final version from the original, outside Pages (Preview is perfectly OK for this) and reimporting the edited image for the final publication.

3. Create a grid and stick to it. Unfortunately whilst Pages has guides they are pretty useless as they are retained in duplicated pages, or layouts. However Pages auto align is superb, way better than Adobe's.

4. Pages allows links to URLs and has bookmarks, all retained when Printed to pdf.

5. Copy/Paste/Retain styles has become a total PITA in recent versions of both Pages and macOS. You will need to create and impose your own styles. You can only use the f-keys as Style shortcuts, so those are limited to 12 total.

6. Use Pages '09 for Layout not the latest Pages 6.3. Pages 6.3 lacks facing pages, master layouts, textbox linking is unidirectional, and is subject to massive slowdowns when the layout gets busy. It still lacks a long list of necessary functions. Pages '09 has extremely good "Captured Pages" which are multi page repeatable layouts. It also has layout breaks which allow you to finesse a wide range of layouts with a bit of work. Templates and placeholders can really be made to be fast and efficient.

7. Use Pages 6.3 for Vector Objects the tools are good, and you can do a lot with the snap align and boolean operations. Not up to Illustrator but very useful. Those vector objects can be Exported back to Pages '09 documents and used in layouts there. Pages '09 has vector tools but no Boolean functions and is more clumsy than Pages 6.3 for this. Pages '09 is much faster handling many objects, cruising along happily where Pages 6.3 throws up a spinning beachball after a while.

8. One thing you will find strange is that no version of any Apple software has intelligent color control. Pages 6.3 actually got worse at this than Pages '09, so whatever you use there will be a bit of manual work trying to keep colors consistent. I have worked hard at trying to use named swatches in the Color Picker but it is handicapped by not acting as variables simply as storage for reuse and they are not portable.

9. Keep in mind that Pages and Quark XPress are two completely different beasts. Use Pages good features and don't pine for the more professional Quark tools.

Peter

...Oh and one more thing:

Pages '09 can import selected Styles from other Pages and Word documents, as well as copy and paste pages between documents.

There are some, who even years after Apple shipped the broken Pages 5, insist that somehow by some miracle you will be able to turn Pages 5 & 6 from a sows ear into a silk purse but given that it has a rubber band (which periodically snaps or goes slack) under the hood instead of a real motor, that is just wearing multiple rose colored glasses, one on top of the other, until the world outside is a pure shade of "don't want to know", and you can almost ignore the nail that Apple has hammered into its User's tyres.

I imagine these users going "Broom, Broom" as they sit in their pedal car trying not to think about when they had a real car.

Peter

Why, what did you do with Pages '09?

If you had it you should still have it in the iWork '09 folder inside your Applications folder.

If you don't have it, buy the Family edition (its cheaper) from Amazon and make sure you update it to v4.3 after installation.

Peter

That means you do have Pages '09 installed because you just tried to open a Pages 6.3 document with Pages '09 and it can't open it.

Instead of double clicking on the documents and opening it with the wrong version of Pages, right click on the files and choose the latest Pages (the orange one) to open those particular files.

Peter

This is all you get with Pages 6.3:

And you can see how crude the very limited layouts are:

It is like Pages '09 is for grown ups and Pages 6.3 is for finger painting 3rd graders.

Peter

Oh! Thanks for reminding! Completely forgot about it. But, none of those new files I created with the latest Pages 6.3 is opening. Please see the attached screenshot.

Thanks ! Is there any way I can go back to Pages '09?

Done! Thank you for your help!