Pages 5.2 - opening, updating, saving for '09
I've just started using Pages 5.2, and I'm confused about how several things are working. Any advice, anyone?
- When I open earlier Pages docs, it asks if I want to update the file or edit a copy. I've been clicking 'update,' but I'm now sometimes encountering this message when I try to open one of these files later: "filename.pages can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer." If I open Pages first, then open the document from the File menu, it works fine. What's going on here?
- Not everyone on my work team has the new Pages yet, and so I want to keep shared documents in '09 for now so everyone will be able to open them. I can't figure out a way to do this; Pages won't let me edit the document unless I update it to 5.2. Do I really have to update each file, then export a copy in Pages 09 every time I make any changes, to have copies everyone on the team can open? Is there no way to edit an earlier file in the earlier version and keep it in that version? I'm surprised because I recently switched back from Office to iWork and generally have been very happy with the change - but this is something Word could do ages ago, and it's inconvenient not to have this option. Am I missing something?
Pages 5 is just an ongoing disaster.
When you open and save a document in Pages 5 it is in the Pages 5 format. If you are lucky you will be able to continue opening it until the day you can't.
Working backwards and forwards between Pages 5 and Pages '09 will not work because Pages 5 lacks so many features that it changes the Pages '09 files and does a poor job of exporting them.
Just stick with Pages '09 and forget Pages 5 until Apple, if ever, fixes it.
Peter
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Click on your desktop so FINDER appears in the upper left corner.
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I came back from dinner and Pages 09, gives me an Error box..... that the document cound't be opened.
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Disappearing color profile when saved for the Web
Hello.
I have a problem with the “Save for the Web” results using Photoshop CS6 running on Win 7 x64.
My photos are already in 8 bits and in sRGB and when I save for the Web I check the option “embed color profile”, uncheck “convert to sRGB”, metadata to “copyright and contact info”.
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Opening that “saved for the Web” file in PS, it's ok, the CP is recognized.
Opening it directly (from the file browser => “open with”) in Web browsers: ok in Firefox, Safari and Chrome (CP recognized in all).
Copying that file in my working site on localhost (no modification), integer it in Joomla's module gallery (which is CP aware) and then opening my site on localhost with Web browsers: ok in Firefox (because it considers a non-tagged file by default as beeing sRGB), NOT OK in Safari neither in Chrome.
Now, if I do the same with the “Save as” version of the file with embedded sRGB CP:
PS: ok
Opened directly in Web browsers: ok in the three cases
Opened in Web browsers through my Joomla site on localhost: OK IN ALL THREE BROWSERS
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''jscher2000 [[#answer-670981|said]]''
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What do you have set up as the default application for .html files? Or are you opening another kind of file that isn't normally/automatically associated with Firefox?
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</blockquote>
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