I am still in the process of exploring the trial version of the new version of Pages in iWork ’09 but I can immediately report on two significant breakthroughs as far as I am concerned. The big one is that Pages now supports subpixel font smoothing. This means that the characters are now rendered in […]
Occasionally, I have to edit an existing document in Pages that, for some reason, causes the application’s performance while typing or selecting/editing text to drop significantly, to the point that there is a very noticeable delay between the moment I type or select something and the moment the typed text or selection highlighting appears on […]
I am looking forward to being able to use Rainer Brockerhoff’s new utility called Klicko. It promises to get rid of Mac OS X’s click-through behaviour, which has been, over the years, a source of both convenience and frustration. Since Klicko can be customized to only apply to some applications, I am thinking that I […]
Compared to the recurring nightmare known as Microsoft Word 2008, Apple’s own Pages 3.0 is a joy to use. It’s fast, it does not corrupt documents, and, for the most part, it’s reliable. That said, I cannot help but notice that, in recent months, the application has not been as stable as it used to […]
Now that iWork ’08 has been out for over a year, it is time to take stock and review the main outstanding issues with Pages 3.0 that prevent it from really being used as a substitute for Microsoft Word in almost all situations—at least as far as I am concerned. What follows is a list […]
When deleting does not delete.
A small, but not insignificant inconsistency in selection deletion in both Word and Pages.
How to customize date formats for automatic dates in Pages documents.
Pages renders the picture just fine, whereas Word 2008 displays a black box.
A really bad bug in Pages’s Find/Replace dialog box.
More details about the dual use of standard keyboard shortcuts for text selection in tables in iWork applications.
A shocking ignorance of French grammar in Pages’ Find/Replace feature.
How to solve a situation created by the absence of a final paragraph mark in Pages documents.
The Quick Look rendering engine for Word files is better than for Pages files!
What is the purpose of the blue highlighting around the grey bar separators in the styles drawer?