In support of Pages 5

Question

I have had the fortunate expeerience of never having had to use Pages 09. I started out right here on Pages 5. Now updated slightly. I was a long time MS Word user, but frankly - don't miss it one little bit.
Pages 5 does what I need to do.
I have just installed Endnote 7, and Cite While YOu Write (CWYW), and it all appears to be working fine together.
I have two books so far writte with Pages 5, and exported to ePub format, then uploaded to both Kindloe and iBooks. The ePub files open fine on the mac in iBooks, as wellas the Kindle Previewer. Fo iBooks there is also the Book Proofer, with works great with the Pages 5, exported ePubs.
I can understand the frustrations of those who started out with earlier versions of various packages,m including Pages, to suddenly find their work suddenly inaccessible. But the cautionary notes attatched to ALL upgrades apply equally to Pages. Backup your work - always. If you import an old version of a file into a new version of the program, it will invariably tell you that a conversion is taking place, and will probably be non-reversable. Make a copy of your document, and open the copy. And I don't care if it's Windows or Mac. I just lost an entire server through an incautious upgrade from XP to Win 8. Blew the lot away. Now I'm on a Mac, being so fed up with Windows that I have sworn off it forever. But... whose fault? Mine. I didn't RTFM....
So if you upgraded to a NEW release of Pages, and didn't preserve the old one Just In Case ... them's the breaks.
But aas for Pages 5. It works fine for me. Fiction, academic papers, note taking, what ever. Of course there are things I could use in it, but if I list them, it ends up looking like a package that is all things to all people. Such a program doesn't exist.
And now that Microsoft have gone to the "Pay by the Month" subscription for their software. I really don't want to know. I've left Adobe for that very reason, and other deeper concerns about them, I can't just buy Word for the Mac. I have to subscribe. So in place of Photoshop I use Gimp. In place of Word I use Pages, and iBooks when I have a need.
So my bottom line - I happily use Pages 5. A nice piece of software, that can only improve. I'm also sure that removing over a hundred options from the previous version had a lot to do with the new version being fully 64bit complient, and needed a complete rework.

Answer 1

What "cautionary notes attached to ALL upgrades"?
There weren't any with Pages 5!
In fact most users didn't even know the automatic upgrade had happened until their work was ruined. Without warning and synching the bad copy over every copy thanks to iCloud.
Who expected to be ambushed by Apple?
…and wait till you have lost your first major job, and can't recover a thing.
Good luck RTFM. There isn't one.
Tell me exactly how being "64 bit" has improved your work in any way. So much so that not being able to do 100 things that were possible, is now not possible.
Do you always parrot what other people tell you, no matter how nonsensical, without actually thinking for yourself?
Peter
btw That program that doesn't exist, does exist. It is Pages '09, and it is no handicap that it actually works.