Auto-update of figure/images in Pages

Dear all,
I'm just wondering whether Pages has a feature allowing it to auto-update images you import into it, i.e., if I insert an image in pages and then decide I need to edit it some-more in Photoshop, can you make it update by itself in Pages? I know this feature is available in Microsoft Word for mac.
Any help much appreciated.
Neil

Neil,
Yet again, Pages is no clone of Word. Pages' graphics are embedded, not linked, and that might be why there's no auto-update. I can see where auto update would be nice if many documents use the same graphic and you want it updated in all of them.
Whatever your reasons, it wouldn't hurt to Provide Feedback to Apple from the Pages menu.
Jerry

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Gor 09 22:24:48 MyComputer systemd[1]: Failed to start Copy rEFInd icons to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 09 22:24:48 MyComputer systemd[1]: Starting Copy rEFInd icons to UEFISYS Partition...
Gor 09 22:24:48 MyComputer systemd[1]: refind-update-icons.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Gor 09 22:24:48 MyComputer systemd[1]: Failed to start Copy rEFInd icons to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 09 22:24:48 MyComputer systemd[1]: Starting Copy rEFInd fonts to UEFISYS Partition...
Gor 09 22:24:48 MyComputer systemd[1]: Started Copy rEFInd fonts to UEFISYS Partition.
<reboot to test kernel>
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopping Copy rEFInd fonts to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopped Copy rEFInd fonts to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopping Copy rEFInd ext4 driver to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopped Copy rEFInd ext4 driver to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopping Copy rEFInd EFI to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopped Copy rEFInd EFI to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopping Copy rEFInd icons to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:05:41 MyComputer systemd[1]: Stopped Copy rEFInd icons to UEFISYS Partition.
Gor 10 00:07:22 MyComputer systemd[1]: Starting Copy rEFInd fonts to UEFISYS Partition.
It seems that systemd is too quick. It notices that something has changed e.g. that /usr/lib/refind/refind_x64.efi has been removed, triggers the service and then finds there is no /usr/lib/refind/refind_x64.efi to copy because the new version has not yet been installed. In the case of the .efi files, the service always seems to somehow manage to get everything into place but in the case of the fonts and icons (icons shown above), it often does not.
I'm not sure why this happens because I based this on the service file I found the wiki for keeping the kernel and initramfs synced to the ESP. So I would think it should work for at least the single file cases, if not the directories. Indeed my EFI update service syncs the kernel and initramfsx2 to the ESP flawlessly (up to now) even though the .path unit for that includes 3 triggering conditions and the .service and .path files are set up just the same.
I've read the manual pages for systemd.{path,service,unit} and couldn't see anything obviously helpful although I'm curious about timer units so I looked at the information on those but I guess they are for rather more sophisticated services than mine. I also looked at the wiki for systemd but it does not say anything about this kind of issue.
Intuitively, I wondered if there is not a clean way of telling systemd to wait until changes to the path have completed before running the service. Obviously I can think of ways to force the service to wait just by using sleep or something but I am sure that that is not the correct way to do it. So I'm pretty sure there is something wrong about the way I've set these up but I am just not seeing what it is. Any hints would be appreciated!

I have actually modified the refind path/service units somewhat, but it still works flawlessly for me. I usually wait for 2-5 min after pkg updates so that all the changes are synced to EFISYS before I reboot. There are the ones I use currently:
refind-efi_copy.path
[Unit]
Description=Copy rEFInd files to EFI System Partition
[Path]
PathChanged=/usr/lib/refind/refind_x64.efi
PathChanged=/usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi
PathChanged=/usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi
PathChanged=/usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi
PathChanged=/usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi
PathChanged=/usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi
PathChanged=/mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi.conf
PathChanged=/mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi_linux.conf
PathChanged=/mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi_linux_boot.conf
PathChanged=/mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi_archboot.conf
Unit=refind-efi_copy.service
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
refind-efi_copy.service
[Unit]
Description=Copy rEFInd files to EFI System Partition
# Requires=efisys.mount
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /usr/lib/refind/refind_x64.efi /efisys/EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sbsign --key /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.key --cert /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.crt --output /efisys/EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi /usr/lib/refind/refind_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sbsign --key /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.key --cert /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.crt --output /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sbsign --key /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.key --cert /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.crt --output /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sbsign --key /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.key --cert /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.crt --output /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sbsign --key /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.key --cert /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.crt --output /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sbsign --key /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.key --cert /efisys/EFI/tools/efitools/db.crt --output /efisys/EFI/tools/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi /usr/lib/refind/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi.conf /efisys/EFI/refind/refind.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi.conf /efisys/EFI/boot/refind.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi_linux.conf /efisys/EFI/arch/core/refind_linux.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi_linux.conf /efisys/EFI/arch/mainline/refind_linux.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -f /mnt/Source_Codes_Partition/Source_Codes/My_Files/Bootloader_Config_Files/refind_uefi/refind_uefi_linux_boot.conf /boot/refind_linux.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rm -rf /efisys/EFI/refind/icons
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -rf /usr/share/refind/icons /efisys/EFI/refind/icons
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rm -rf /efisys/EFI/refind/fonts
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cp -rf /usr/share/refind/fonts /efisys/EFI/refind/fonts
Last edited by the.ridikulus.rat (2013-07-11 15:16:18)

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