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Re: Pages 5.1 problem

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: Pages 5.1 problem
Date	28 Jan 2014 00:44:00 GMT
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On 2014-01-28, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> 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?
>
> As JR said, the rewrite has dropped that among many other features. I
> use linked text boxes in Pages '09 each month for a club newsletter.
> Pages 5.x is a no go zone for me until it has linked text boxes.
>
> What worries me is that Apple didn't list that among the features they
> were intending to add back over the next six months.
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049

That is surprising.

> Page layout is implied by the name of the application, and was its
> original primary function. How can it NOT have linked text boxes, which
> is a pretty important feature when you want to layout an article
> spanning variable sized columns and multiple pages?

No shit. If they want to be taken seriously, they'll have to add that
feature.

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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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