Pages 5.1 - Styles bug
Hi everyone,
I was very glad that Apple updated Pages.
But I noticed a strange bug in 5.1 version.
On one of my documents (a big one updated from a previous version of Pages) containing a bunch of styles, does not "wok as it should). Now, whent I scroll the (how do you say in english ?) style menu in the format section (see image) styles becomes blank.
It seems this bug occurs with my Macbook pro retina only (not such problem with my iMac).
Can somebody help ?
When I come back to the menu, styles have reappeared but always the same scroll bug !
Both images befor and after scrolling the menu :
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Best regards.
And forgive my clumsy english : I am french !
Just to let you know, I have had the same problem since I started using Pages 5.0 on my MacMini.
I reported that bug to Apple through their developer Bug Reporter some time back...
This was my report:
09-Dec-2013 10:33 PM
Summary: When the number of paragraph styles becomes very high, the scrolling paragraph styles pane stops displaying text and becomes unusable.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Pages 5.0 or 5.0.1
2. Go to Format Inspector, Paragraph styles, and access the pop out paragraph styles selection pane.
3. Click on the "+" to add a new style. Repeat this step until the text in the pop out paragraph styles selection pane disappears (approximately 23 to 47 times depending on the size of the styles added).
Actual Results: The text in the pop out paragraph styles selection pane disappears, rendering it unusable.
Version: Pages 5.0 and 5.0.1; OS X 10.9 (13A598)
Notes: It seems that triggering the error depends on the graphical height of the pop out paragraph styles selection pane, not the actual number of existing styles.
This was their response:
Apple Developer Relations10-Dec-2013 07:37 PM
Engineering has determined that your bug report is a duplicate of another issue and will be closed.
I guess they have known about the problem for a while then. They must be busy with damage control over all the issues with Pages 5 that are causing greater negative feedback.
The only way I found to work around the bug was eliminating styles from the drawer until the bug goes away. Not a nice fix, but it is one way to be able to continue working with the doc.
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