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Re: Pages 5.1 problem

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On 2014-01-27, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <bknd50Ftu5bU2@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-01-27, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>> > Pages 5.1 appears to lack the ability to have linked text boxes. Anyone
>> > know anything about this, such as why?
>> 
>> I haven't been following Pages since I don't do much of that sort of
>> thing these days. Could it simply be that Apple decided to rewrite /
>> refactor Pages in version 5.1 and hasn't yet gotten around to adding in
>> the complete feature set? Apple does this from time to time (see Final
>> Cut Pro as a recent example).
>
> Well, lets hope so. When I imported a page layout file into Pages 5.1,
> it bleated about "some features not supported - links removed", which
> is a bit irritating.
>
> So far I've seen no reason not move from the previous version.

That happened with Numbers recently as well. I suspect a rewrite.

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Pages 5.1 problem Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-27 14:16 +0000
  Re: Pages 5.1 problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-27 15:43 +0000
    Re: Pages 5.1 problem Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-27 17:21 +0000
      Re: Pages 5.1 problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-27 17:25 +0000
  Re: Pages 5.1 problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-28 13:38 +1300
    Re: Pages 5.1 problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-28 00:44 +0000

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