Hi Justin,
I don't use word processing in the extensive ways as the
students might. I mainly use it for business letters, lists, and
general document writing. I use limited formatting at best. The only
problem I've encountered is getting my MS Word invoices to import into
Pages properly. They will do so in Open Office, but I can't determine
why not in Pages. However, I have had no issues with Pages and
actually find the overall way documents are handled and one can edit
in Pages much better than OO. Again, though, this is the opinion of
one user only.
Take Care
John Panarese
On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
OK cool it looks like we might have another winner of a
wordprocessor. Could you guys possibly list the tasks that you have
accomplished with Pages for those who might be looking for a word
processor with such capacities.
Regards
J
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts
comic strip.
On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Josh
There's actually only one serious useability issue in Pages that
I've found. It doesn't prevent me from using it, it's very much an
annoyance however. I have already reported this to Apple, and they
did reply so I know the message was received.
The issue relates to scrolling through a document. When you are
navigating line by line, if you transition to the next or previous
page, Voiceover will sometimes lose track of where it is--this
isn't 100% reproduceable for me, but it's regular enough. From that
point on, the arrow keys won't read, and Voiceover's navigation
keys become unreliable in the document area. You can fix this
temporarily by navigating out of the body text area with the VO
cursor and back in, and that seems to jog Voiceover's tracking.
However, if you scroll to another page, it will sometimes happen
again. I'm not the only one this is happening to, it was another
list member who actually experienced this first and wanted to know
if I'm seeing this problem as well, which I am.
This is actually the only serious useability issue I've found. The
rest are minor--not all text attributes being exposed with VO+t and
other similar bugs, annoying but hardly show-stoppers as there are
other ways to get that information. Other than this issue I've also
been extremely impressed. Numbers takes some getting used to for
one such as myself who is more familiar with Excel and Tables--
there are a few minor accessibility issues in Numbers as well, but
it's still perfectly useable. . Keynote makes reading Powerpoints
very easy indeed, something I was never able to get to work in
Openofffice due to it repeatedly crashing when I tried to open a
powerpoint.
For me, even with the quirks, it was worth the price tag of $80
which, face it, is pretty modest for an office suite such as this.
On Jan 14, 2009, at 16:23, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
We're discussing iWork '09, as it was released last week. Not
iWork '08.
I'm wondering, for those of you declaring issues with Pages in
particular that make it unusable for you, what those problems
are? I've found the software to be extremely usable so far, and
have been exceedingly impressed. Where are the trouble spots for
you in Pages?
