Poor display on retina display

I just received my new MacBook pro w/Retina display. Generally, things are great. Strangely the much more complex FCPX displays amazingly well on the new macbook pro while in Pages and Numbers I get the same pixelated results as a third party app like Filemaker. I thought all the Apple apps were updated to display beautifully on retina--Mail & Calendar do as well. I've run software update and updated via the App Store; but the display is poor. I've also gone into display settings and confirmed they are at optimal settings.
Any fixes? Has Apple truly not updated these yet?
Thanks for any help,
Greg

I believe you need to get info on the individual iWork apps & select something along the line of "open in low resolution."
We've all been waiting a very long time for updates/upgrades to the iWork apps. The last update was a year ago to take advantage of autosave & versions in Lion. Maybe something will happen around the time Mountain Lion is released sometime this month, but I'm not holding my breath.

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