Pages & iWorks

I have both the 09 version of iWorks (Pages and Numbers) and the new version of both Numbers and Pages on my iMac. Can I just delete the old 09 version of both programs? Will it trash my older files?

Deleting the '09 iWork apps won't do anything to your files, but you should seriously consider keeping those apps & backup copies of any files. The new versions of Pages & Numbers will "trash" your files. There are so many features in the '09 versions that are not supported in the new versions that files are irretrievably damaged when opened by the new versions.

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Why are TypeKit fonts not displaying correctly in Pages (iWork)?

I have just subscribed to TypeKit and am experiencing highly peculiar behavior from the two fonts I’m using in Pages (iWork): Basically, fonts in my document don’t respond appropriately to requested changes in style. For example, if I increase the point size by one point using the the formatting commands built into Pages, the font drops a point size. I’ve had the same experience using the kerning command, where the kerning decreases when I have set it to increase. (So far, the only fonts I’ve been using have been Futura PT and Proxima Nova.)
Look at the example in the screenshot: “FEATURED EXPERT” on the top line shows in Pages as being 24pt Futura PT Book. However, “SOLO,” a few lines down, which is definitely displaying as smaller, shows as 25pt Futura PT
In a potentially related issue, when I reopened this same document today, text boxes were suddenly too small for the text (again in Futura PT and Proxima Nova). It was as though Pages was suddenly reading those two fonts differently.
I have had no issues with other (non-TypeKit) fonts in the same document.
Anyone else experiencing anything similar? Any suggested fixes? I'm reluctant to unsync/resync the two affected fonts (the only ones I have sync'd to date) because I don't want to wreck the document!

Thanks, Christopher. After I posted my original question, I did come to realize that it was Helvetica not Future PT showing. Here’s what happened, and here’s why I still need some guidance…
The document dropped Future PT because when my wifi signal dropped, the Creative Cloud app displayed this error symbol (see graphic) in my menu bar.
At that point, my computer could no longer access my TypeKit fonts and the document reverted to the system's Helvetica default.
This was not an isolated incident.
If I turn wifi off manually, there is no issue and CC continues to operate in the background as it should, with TypeKit fonts still available.
However, if the wifi drops out on its own, I get the above error symbol and I then lose access to my TypeKit fonts. Very rarely, the CC app will self-correct when the signal is restored. More often than not, I must quit the CC app and relaunch it in order to get things back to normal.
This doesn’t strike me as normal behavior Have you ever encountered anything like it? Do you know of a fix that will allow the CC app to self-correct when the wifi signal is restored?
Any assistance will be appreciated!
Thanks!
P.S. TypeKit troubleshooting doesn’t address this particular issue.

Just opened a new blank document in Pages (iWork 2009). When I try to type a letter (any letter of text) the computer just "dings" and types nothing.

Just opened a new blank document in Pages (iWork 2009). When I try to type any text, the computer just "dings" at me and types nothing.

Probably you have opened a blank Layout template which requires a Textbox for you to type into.
Open a blank Word Processing template instead. The two types are listed in the Sidebar of the Template Chooser.
Peter

How to import a text file created in Pages (iWork '08) to Photoshop Elements

I am totally a novice at working with Photoshop Elements. I need help. I want to create my business card in Photoshop Elements with a background image and then a text layer over the background layer. The logo and text was created in Pages (iWork '08). Can I import this text file to Photoshop Elements and if so how do I do that? I cannot create the same logo in Elements unless someone can tell me how to draw a circle with a transparent background so that just the outline of the circle shows and the background comes through. Thanks for any help you can offer. I have OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and Photoshop Elements 6.

In PSE, to draw an empty circle use the elliptical marquee tool and hold down shift while you drag to constrain it to a circle. That will give you an empty selection, then go to Edit>Stroke (outline) selection. A window appears where you can choose the width and color of the stroke.
However, I'm not understanding why you would want to create your business card in PSE rather than in Pages or equivalent. Is there a special reason for this?
EDIT As for the text file, it would be simpler just to retype it in PSE, since it can't be very much text. Remember that PSE doesn't do all the fancy things with text that Pages can, although it can do some things (like warping) that Pages can't.
You could activate the text tool and use copy/paste, but you'll lose most of the formatting.

Pages & iWork..are the licenses transferrable to my other home computers like Lion?

I have Pages & iWork, etc. I upgraded to Lion on one computer and my printer stopped working (Canon is not making a driver for my printer for Lion yet). Anyhow, I uploaded my document to iWork and pulled it down into one of my other (two) Macs that still had Snow Leopard. I was prompted to buy the software. As I understand it, the new Lion software can be installed on my multiple home computers (again, we have three Macs). Is this the same with my other software, such as iWork and Pages? I have my codes (somewhere) in the box from when I bought my computer new.
Thanks!

I had a similar problem and solved it by copying the following files to my new machine:
Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork09.Installer.plist
Macintosh HD:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork09.plist
Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:iWork '09
Macintosh HD:Applications:iWork '09
Worked absolutely beautiful. Software update started immediately and updated it to the latest version.
You may only do this however if you then delete the software on the old computer.

Pages IWORK'08 spell check doesn't work--here's the fix

Pages stopped spell checking. Some suggested deleting com.apple.iwork.pages.plist off the HD in case Pages was corrupted so it could rebuild the spell check feature but that was not necessary in my case. Here is the painless fix.
-Open a pages document
-Go to Edit and SELECT ALL
-Then go to INSPECTOR text (blue T) MORE and be sure language is set to English, then close out of Inspector
-Go to EDIT, SPELLING and set “check spelling as you type” or "Check spelling"
Just remember that PAGES needs to know what you want to do so you have to SELECT ALL for it to check everything on the document.

That is not sufficient if you have not also corrected your Text Styles to the appropriate language.
Text is styled with a language, usually the default, just as it is with a font or color.
Unless you update all your styles and use them, every time you reintroduce new text or use those like Free Form you will have text with either the wrong language or no language.
Peter

Big problem in opening word documents in Pages (iWork) ipad

Hi I study in UNI so I mostly have to open .doc documents from my Uni website but 95% times the .doc files doesn't open properly sometimes even half of the file stuff is just missing even using pages app from iWork. Any suggestion ?. Or ipad is t a waste of money for Uni stuff ?.? I have also tried other apps from App Store but none of them works properly.

LeopardBoy wrote:
Or ipad is t a waste of money for Uni stuff
I would never recommend an iPad for any serious Uni education. You must have a laptop or other machine that can run things like MS Word most likely being used by the people grading your work. Even for secondary education an iPad is very limiting in my view.

Pages (iWork) is not displaying fonts correctly

I'm using the popular font Ubuntu (as this is our corporate font) in Pages (5.2). Everytime I type an apostrophe it turns it into a little superscript 9. If I type single quotes these become superscript 8's and 9's. Sample below:
Obviously, it is the substitutions for curly quotes that are doing this but why can't Pages display the fonts correctly. This works perfectly with this same font in Text Edit including the susbstitutions. It also works perfectly in Pages 09 (4.3).
So frustrating. Everytime I try to upgrade to any of the new iWork applications I find a bug or missing feature that forces me back to the previous version!

Bug confirmed.
Report this to Apple?
There are such an enormously long list of bugs and missing features in Pages 5, why bother.
Stick to Pages '09 until Apple stops pretending Pages 5 is actually usable as is.
Peter

Can't open doc in Pages iWork 9 / SL 10.6.6

Hiya,
Already read dosen of similar topics but can't find my case.
So I installed iWork for work with doc files and the first one I can't open. It writes Unknown Error/ Invalid import. I've tried another, light doc - it was successfully opened. Maybe the first one can't be open because it has a lot of graphics, tables, etc?
What do you think, lads? Any solution?

Thanks, I got it. Cyrillic makes the document coded to me .
OK, Pages can't open it but TextEdit can, but then I tried it in LibraOffice and found out that it had pages in both portrait and landscape orientation. That is probably the reason to Pages being unable to open it. It also had these typical long tables with cells spanning over several pages but that wouldn't give the error message.

Pages/iWork '08 Frozen/Won't Open or Create Documents/Tiger 10.4.11

I am running the latest version of Tiger 10.4.11 on my PowerMac G5 and have iWork '08. It has been updated and successfully running well until yesterday. Suddenly, I can no longer open any existing documents without any of the programs freezing (Pages, Keynote or Numbers), nor will the software create new documents or open the template browser. In fact, when trying to open a document the status bar looks like it is opening, then nothing happens and the programs all freeze up. I have to force quit.
I have tried trashing all the preference files already and restarting, to no avail. I have also repaired my permissions, which I do routinely. I have tested the hard drive and it is okay. I am experiencing no other problems with any other apps, etc. Have 4GB RAM and the programs still freeze with no other apps open. This is really bizarre, as trashing the preference files has not helped. Has anyone else experienced this who can help me? I appreciate it very much as I need to access my docs. Thank you so much. Renee

Thank you for your response. Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have been ill with a bad flu the past two weeks. I tried both your suggestions and neither worked. Created a second user account but still can't get ANY of the iWork '08 apps to open documents or create new ones. They freeze up immediately, and won't even open the template browsers. Also tried reinstalling iWork '08 (after deleting all the old app and app-related files), and still no go. Deleted all preference files, etc. without success. Also discovered the same problem with iWeb now, as it will also not run nor can I access any of the template files.
All my other apps are running fine (Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop Lightroom, MS Word and Excel, etc.) and I have tried repairing permissions and disk repair multiple times. Still can't get anything to open. When I try to open an existing document I had created before, all I get is a blank window. Same for trying to create a new document, just a blank white window I cannot type in.
Then I cannot close any of the windows and must quit the iWork '08 programs to exit. I am on Tiger 10.4.11 and have also tested my font database, finding no problems. It is weird to me that I can run MS Word and an industrial page layout program like Adobe InDesign without problems, but cannot run Pages '08 (or Numbers or Keynote or iWeb). Again, reinstalling the apps fresh did nothing. Cannot figure out what the heck is wrong. Sounds like I will have to pay for Apple Tech Support#$$$

Pages (iWorks '09) version is hanging on opening files as well as saving files. On opening it eventually opens but on Saving it will never save.

All of a sudden today, Pages has developed a problem on opening and saving files on my Macbook Pro 13. I tried updating to the newest version of Pages weks ago but it really messed with the formatting of documents I had already been using so I am working from the iWorks 09 version of Pages. I can't use the newest version. To complete my background, I use Pages every day sometimes several times a day and that has been true all along up to yesterday.
When opening any saved Pages files, to include a blank pages document, the program hangs up for over a minute with the spinning wheel. I have no other programs running. Once the document opens, I can work as usual and nothing is slowed. Upon saving, the spinning wheel comes up and the program will not save. I have had it open for 10 minutes or more with the spinning wheel and Pages refuses to Save. I have to Force Quit Pages. Now when the spinning wheel comes up on Save, I can do anything else with my computer I want. The other programs on the laptop are not affected. Saving is not affected on other programs.
I read on another forum to try Keynote to see if there is a problem with all of iWorks 09. I did that and Keynote works perfectly with no problems opening and saving files like a champ. I have turned my laptop off and then on and the problem continues.
I also read to delete the plist files in Preferences and let Pages rebuild. I did that and the problem continues. I then read to use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. I did that and the problem continues.
I have not reloaded Pages from my purchase disk but I've also read that that doesn't necessarily eliminate problems that might be elsewhere. Thank you in advance for your help.

As the day progressed, all other files quit being able to save to the desktop. As I tried to diagnose the issue, I went through the Repair Disk in Disk Utilities and was told by that program to close and use the disk repair from Recovery HD (CMD + R upon reboot). I did that and was eventually told the HDD was too far gone to repair. I reformatted and restored from Time Machine following the instructions given. All is good now after 24 hours of work. I have no idea what happened but I'm not feeling real safe about my mac today. I have an SSD on order.

Recovering a Pages iWork document without TimeMachine

Ok here is the deal; I was working in iWork pages on a document and accidentally closed it without saving thinking I already saved it how I wanted earlier (which I didn't). I then finally discovered what the application TimeMachine and I am going to get it up and working but that won't help me recover the document I lost BEFORE I started using TimeMachine! Is there any tricks or way to recover my lost document from the computer at this point? I know what to do in the future (use time machine, save more often, backup my documents automatically) but I figure there must be SOME way to recover the document using technical computer "backdoors" or tricks. Right? Please help me.

Microsoft Word has autosave, it still has to save.
You can have Pages make backups of the previously saved version (in Preferences) and there is free autosave software available:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=8&mforum=iworktipsnt rick
Peter

Upgraded to OSX 10.9.1 and now Pages (iWork '08) takes much longer to launch.

Initial launch of Pages takes significantly longer to load after upgrading OSX. I have used 'software update', but nothing out there to download. Any ideas? The other components of my iWork '08 bundle work as expected, it is only Pages that seems to have performance issues under OSX 10.9.1.

If I remember, I believe I thought I had to upgrade to Mavericks for a feature related to sharing or FaceTime or something. I have an iMac, 2 MacBook Pro laptops (kids), an iPad (wife's) and Apple TV. So on Mavericks, everyone in the house is happy now; I just don't like that it takes 'forever' to launch Pages. Perhaps I will upgrade to iWork '09 to see if that takes care of the issue.

I am trying to email document from pages. iWork discontinued. How can I send it?

I have been trying ti email a doc from pages but a pop up says that iWork is dicontiued. How can I send the document?

You are running an outdated version of Pages '09 v4. The iWork site was shutdown years ago.
Which version of OS X are you running ( ▸ About This Mac)? And the exact version of Pages '09 v4 (Pages > About Pages)?
The short answer is to save your Pages '09 document to the filesystem, open Mail, and drag/drop the Pages document into the compose window. If this is going to people without Pages, export it as a Word document (.doc), and then attach it to Mail.

Snow Leopard version of Pages (iWork)

Hello All. I recently updated my iMac to Mountain Lion and my iWork, specifally my Pages updated somewhat automatically. I din't thingk anything about. In the enterim I decided that my MacBook Pro (circa 2006) needed some cleaning and sprucing up so I did a clean install of Snow Leopard. When I copied Pages from my iMac into my laptop I discovered it doesn't run because I'm not running Mountain Lion. I know that I can't update my MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion as it is from 2006, but how do I get a prior version of Pages to install into my laptop? Remember I have already paid for iWorks while running Snow Lopard. Thanks for any and all recommendations.

You can purchase iWork '09 on a DVD at Amazon or eBay > http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB942Z-A-iWork-VERSION/dp/B0014X2UAK After installing that version, open  > Software Update, and install the most recent version for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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