2020. 3. 22. 16:44ㆍ카테고리 없음
Apple's long awaited updates for its Mac iWork apps are finally out, and one of the big new features they bring to the table are substantially better compatibility with their iOS counterparts. The tradeoff is that Mac users lose some functionality to gain that compatibility, and for Pages '09 users it may not be worth the price. Pages is Apple's document design and word processing application. While it hadn't been updated for several years, it did prove itself to be a capable tool that held its own - at least for some users - against Microsoft Word.
With Pages 5.0 out, there are new features that make the app enticing for at least some people, but for others the cost of what they give up may very well be a show stopper. The Good The new Pages fixes a big problem users who jump between their Mac and an iPad or iPhone have dealt with for years: compatibility. The new Mac and iOS versions do have parity, so the headaches that went along with designing files on your Mac that were broken, or at least only partially usable, on your iPad or iPhone are gone. That in and of itself is a welcome change and for some worth the upgrade. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I didn't have any trouble working with graphics from all of the common formats cross platform. I'd expect formats like JPG and PNG to make the transition from the Mac to iPad without any problem, but native Photoshop documents and TIFF? That makes Pages on iOS truly useful when starting a document on your Mac and then editing on the go from your iPad.
Pages 5.0 for the Mac: Familiar, yet different Pages 5.0's true magical new feature is live collaboration via iCloud. Start a new document on one device, and then open it on another. The changes you make in each place show up in the other within seconds, and your files really do look exactly the same on your Mac and iPad, or in Apple's Web-based Pages interface.
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There aren't any special settings to deal with; live collaboration simply works. For as great as the collaboration features are, I did have to deal with a little frustration. I found that whenever I moved a graphic in a multipage document on my iPad, Pages always jumped to the first page on my Mac when the change pushed its way back there. That's an annoyance on a two-page document, but when your page count climbs higher that's a big pain in the backside.
For serious collaborators, Pages 5 also includes change tracking along with the ability to quickly show or hide document changes, inline comments, plus document highlighting. All very welcome, and make for a feature set that I wish had been available in Pages '09. Pages 5.0 documents look and work the same on the iPad The familiar Inspector palette is a thing of the past, but instead of being a loss to lament, we have the new smart inspector in its place.
The smart inspector is a dynamically changing panel built into the document window. Just click on text or an object in your document and the panel changes to show the appropriate settings and formatting options. Formatting text and paragraphs is fairly straightforward thanks to the check boxes, pop-up menus, and sliders in the smart inspector. You can assign paragraph styles from here, too, which is a critical feature for anyone working with complex documents. Applying new formatting to my documents was surprisingly easy and Pages handled the reflow that comes along with adding or removing text columns without skipping a beat.
I never experienced any lag when moving elements around, and applying effects to images happened in an instant. While you can't select every instance of a style in your documents, you can update every place a specific style is used when you make a change. For some, that may feel a little limiting, but it's good to know that if you do make a style change in one place it can still be used document-wide. You can also rename a style after making changes to create a new style. You'll need to click the disclosure triangle next to the style name in the smart inspector, which wasn't clear to me at first.
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Styles and other design elements live in the smart inspector Pages doesn't live in its own little isolated world and Apple gets that, so it includes a handful of file formats supported for exporting. Along with the requisite Microsoft Word format, it also exports directly to PDF, ePub, plain text, and Pages '09. I didn't have trouble exporting to any of Pages 5.0's supported formats and my documents all opened just as they should in other apps without any problems. Actually, I would've been surprised had there been any issues with exporting considering how basic the formatting feature set is in the new version of Pages. Importing, however, isn't quite as graceful.
If your original document uses features that aren't supported by Pages 5.0, be ready for things to break or simply fail to appear once the file is imported. That's unfortunate when importing Word documents, but down right unacceptable when opening Pages '09 files. Apple is clearly in a position to know exactly how the Pages '09 file format works and should be able to find a way to gracefully import those documents even if elements need to be converted in some way to maintain the look of the original. It's as if Apple chose to use a sledge hammer instead of a scalpel during the import process. The Bad For all of the great features the new Pages has, it has plenty of serious limitations, too. For casual users that are new to Pages, that may not be a big deal, but for the rest of us it's enough to make you stop and ask, 'What was Apple thinking?'