Apple releases Pages 1.0.1, Keynote 2.0.1
Apple today released updates to its Keynote presentation software and Pages word processor. According to Apple, the 21.8 MB Keynote 2.0.1 update addresses "isolated issues that may have affected reliability for some customers." Meanwhile, a 28.3 MB Pages 1.0.1 patch aims to correct "isolated issues that may have affected reliability for some customers and resolves an issue related to deleting complete pages." Both updates are currently available through the Mac OS X Software Update mechanism, but were not yet available from the the company's software download site at the time this blurb was published.
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Thankyou apple for fixing that! I dont know how they left it out.
Originally posted by zenatek
No I have installed the updates and they fixed the fact you couldn't delete an entire page in Pages.
Thankyou apple for fixing that! I dont know how they left it out.
They didn't "leave it out". You don't delete entire pages in Word, do you? You delete the content. The problem was that by being so similar to Keynote, which *does* permit slides to be deleted, and by explicitly adding a "new page" option as opposed to creating new pages when the content overflowed from the previous page, they confused users.
Caveats: to delete a page, you must have manually inserted it. If you insert a page, then keep typing past the end, and make, say, three pages of text, then try and delete the middle one, it won't work. It will want to delete all three. It doesn't really delete *pages*, but *sections*, as far as I can tell. When you insert a page, it creates breaks on either end, and the Delete Page(s) function uses those as its guidelines.
All it needs is a visual section/page picker. I think that would help clarify to people what it's doing, as well as make a nice addition. Perhaps a sidebar or drawer?
Originally posted by Kickaha
Caveats: to delete a page, you must have manually inserted it. If you insert a page, then keep typing past the end, and make, say, three pages of text, then try and delete the middle one, it won't work. It will want to delete all three. It doesn't really delete *pages*, but *sections*, as far as I can tell. When you insert a page, it creates breaks on either end, and the Delete Page(s) function uses those as its guidelines.
All it needs is a visual section/page picker. I think that would help clarify to people what it's doing, as well as make a nice addition. Perhaps a sidebar or drawer?
In other words, it's a half-baked solution. Perhaps Pages 1.0.2? Indeed, a sidebar/drawer would be a much better way to handle this. Like Keynote does!
Eh, a subtle point, and not one I'm sure that really matters. Nice to see it in there.
Now the important thing is... where's trumptman?
Originally posted by Kickaha
A sidebar would be nice, but if you're inserting pages, it acts exactly like you'd expect. If you're not inserting pages, then why would you expect to be able to delete them? Actually, I just noticed that the sheet to confirm that you want to delete the page(s) says "The section containing this page will be deleted." Nice explanation, if short.
Eh, a subtle point, and not one I'm sure that really matters. Nice to see it in there.
Now the important thing is... where's trumptman?
Not as amusing as the sheet proclaiming that all pages will be deleted in a document where nothing was inserted...
My daughter has been using Pages for all of her school writing, and the lack of a insert/delete feature is a real pain, she says.
I'm so used to it on my layout programs that when I installed it on my machine in order to learn it, I found it hard to get used to.
But it seems that deleting the contents of a page does essentially the same thing. Just be careful how you do it.
Originally posted by vocaro
As of 4:54pm PST, my Software Update does not show either of these updates, even though I have both programs installed. Did AppleInsider jump the gun on this one?
I figured out what the problem was. I had moved Pages and Keynote out of the original iWork folder. Creating a new iWork folder and moving the apps there allowed Software Update to see them.
Originally posted by vocaro
I figured out what the problem was. I had moved Pages and Keynote out of the original iWork folder. Creating a new iWork folder and moving the apps there allowed Software Update to see them.
When is Apple going to start allowing people to move their applications? This is one thing that really irritates me about OS X. I would like to be able to organize my applications so in the Applications folder and I would like to be able to put some of my applications on an external drive. All my third party apps are fine with this but the Apple apps keep complaining.
Originally posted by JBL
When is Apple going to start allowing people to move their applications? This is one thing that really irritates me about OS X. I would like to be able to organize my applications so in the Applications folder and I would like to be able to put some of my applications on an external drive. All my third party apps are fine with this but the Apple apps keep complaining.
File a bug report like I did. If enough people complain maybe they will do something about it.
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/...s/RadarWeb.woa
Originally posted by D.J. Adequate
Wow, those are big updates for "isolated" issues. I installed them, but I haven't really had that many issues with either program. I wonder what all changed.
They don't send out "patches", they send out an entire updated application. It may only be certain components of the entire package, though.
It's amazing what one finds when poking around in the guts of an app... like, why the heck is that one framework named 'Dennis'?
Originally posted by vocaro
File a bug report like I did. If enough people complain maybe they will do something about it.
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/...s/RadarWeb.woa
That's not the correct form for everyone. You should use the Feedback forms:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Originally posted by JBL
When is Apple going to start allowing people to move their applications? This is one thing that really irritates me about OS X. I would like to be able to organize my applications so in the Applications folder and I would like to be able to put some of my applications on an external drive. All my third party apps are fine with this but the Apple apps keep complaining.
Rather than submit a "complaint" about this, do you maybe have a "solution" you could offer Apple engineers? Afterall, we're all part of the "Mac community".
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Don't think it will make Tiger 10.4.0, but maybe soon after