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iWork Updates are Here!!!!

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MimUK

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Apple have updated Pages to version 2.0.1 and Keynote to 3.0.1

Both via Software Update

Downloading Now 🙂

Pages 2.0.1 addresses issues with charts and image adjust. It also addresses a number of other minor issues.

This update to Keynote 3.0 addresses issues with three-dimensional charts and textures. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. This update should be installed on all computers that share your Keynote 3.0 files, so that textures display properly.
 
Hopefully fixes processor hogging in Pages! It grinds the rest of your computer to a halt.. downloading now.
 
I hope it does address those charts it says it does. I have had a few crashes from making charts in pages.
 
BEWARE! Since the update Pages crashes every time on a certain document I have. I was working on that document fine with Pages 2.0 but since the 2.0.1 update, Pages crashes every time I open that document.

Another document opens fine. I'm still testing to see if there's a pattern to this or why. i.e. is it only this one document or are there others that crash Pages as well.

Off to bugreport again. And I have to downgrade Pages.

EDIT:

Ok, the following Pages-supplied templates all crash since the update: Extreme, Sailing, Family, Non-Profit, Photo Journal and Education Newsletter.

These templates do not crash Pages 2.0.1: Modern, Club, Financial, Design, Travel.

I stopped testing at this point.
 
p0intblank said:
I really want to try out iWork, but Apple doesn't have a free trial on their site. 🙁
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If you live near a college campus it's only like 40$ so I couldn't afford not to buy it. And its wonderful, so definatly worth buying, especially at half price 😀
 
I love iWork, I ditched MS Office for it and have been using it extensively. The update hasn't effected me adversely.

Can't wait to see what Apple introduces to it next year.
 
Downloading now...

I don't really use iWork but one day I hope to use Keynote. The thought of using Powerpoint when an application like Keynote already exists is a rather putrid one. Pages has never appealed to me in fact I don't think I've ever opened it. From what I can gather its not really that great though, well that's what I've heard people say on here. Its all abbout Keynote. That one app is worth the money.
 
Yes! I've been waiting and wondering when Apple would update the software. 🙂 I hope everything works fine with Pages.. I'm sure it will though.
 
Bern said:
I love iWork, I ditched MS Office for it and have been using it extensively. The update hasn't effected me adversely.
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Can you try some of the templates I mentioned above in post #6 and let us know what happens?
 
Spanky Deluxe said:
Downloading now...

I don't really use iWork but one day I hope to use Keynote. The thought of using Powerpoint when an application like Keynote already exists is a rather putrid one. Pages has never appealed to me in fact I don't think I've ever opened it. From what I can gather its not really that great though, well that's what I've heard people say on here. Its all abbout Keynote. That one app is worth the money.
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I think you might want to at least launch Pages before you decide whether it appeals to you. You'll get plenty of positive comments about Pages around here. But let's not turn this into another one of those threads. I'm more interested to know whether the update is safe.
 
Why we're on the subject of iWork:
I get the feeling people don't like pages very much. I have to imagine its at least the same as appleworks when it comes to word processing. Well?
 
weazle1098 said:
If you live near a college campus it's only like 40$ so I couldn't afford not to buy it. And its wonderful, so definatly worth buying, especially at half price 😀
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I go to a county college, so I don't know if the school store would have one. I do have class in the morning, so I'll try to remember to check then. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂
 
Kingsly said:
Why we're on the subject of iWork:
I get the feeling people don't like pages very much. I have to imagine its at least the same as appleworks when it comes to word processing. Well?
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I don't mind it. It's not really a word processor per se - in want of a better moniker it's more of a document editor. Great for little projects like flyers, cards, letters, posters, quizzes, school reports etc (really nice templates). Kind of half-way between Word and Pagemaker.....it sits in a strange spot but i find it quite smooth for what it does.
 
Kingsly said:
Why we're on the subject of iWork:
I get the feeling people don't like pages very much. I have to imagine its at least the same as appleworks when it comes to word processing. Well?
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I find Pages to be quite well... it doesn't lack anything important really. It is a pain having to use Inspector to adjust settings and stuff..but that is it.. other than that I find it better than Office... because it automatically hyphenates words, which I find very convenient.
 
p0intblank said:
How is Pages' interface compared to Word's? I've been using Word a bit lately and find it to be cluttered.
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Pages I find to be much cleaner (like all Apple apps) and less cluttered than Word... not as much features I guess, but I like it that way bc I only need simple word processing w/ occasional graphs... Pages is perfect for me. 🙂
 
hyperpasta said:
I just tried Extreme. Works fine. Are you on a PowerPC or Intel?
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I'm on PPC 10.4.5.

The crash is something to do with ATSUI.

I have a laptop (also PPC) on 10.4.6 but still at Pages 2.0 and all docs there are fine.

2006-04-27 11:17:24.946 Pages[7334] Method: layoutLine: paramBlock :
Object: <SFWPATSUITypesetter: 0x17ce2780>
File: /SourceCache/iWork/iWork-474/lockbox/src/sfwordprocessing/SFWPATSUITypesetter.mm
Line #: 622
Bad result from ATSUBreakLine
Pages(7334,0xa000ed68) malloc: *** Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x2abba00; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
Pages(7334,0xa000ed68) malloc: *** Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x17c37e50; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
2006-04-27 11:17:24.947 Pages[7334] Method: pCreateGlyphVectorForLineFragment:state:localStartCharIndex:localEndCharIndex:atPosition:lineFragEndPosition:
Object: <SFWPATSUITypesetter: 0x17ce2780>
File: /SourceCache/iWork/iWork-474/lockbox/src/sfwordprocessing/SFWPATSUITypesetter.mm
Line #: 1252
ATSUDirectGetLayoutDataArrayPtrFromTextLayout error
Apr 27 11:17:25 crashdump[7337]: Pages crashed
Apr 27 11:17:26 crashdump[7337]: crash report written to: /Users/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Pages.crash.log
 
p0intblank said:
I go to a county college, so I don't know if the school store would have one. I do have class in the morning, so I'll try to remember to check then. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂
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He's referring to the Apple Store Education Discount for college students.
 
My pages does not crash loading the themes mentioned by devman, i am running on PPC latest OS and latest everything else.
 
Works now after a reboot. Here's my speculation.

After the security issues a while back, I changed my setup from a single account (user) to two OS X users. I created a new user and made that one an admin, and switched my original user (the one I use all the time) down to a standard user. This was following instructions on this forum a while back and this setup has worked well for me.

So, today I am logged in as my user (the standard user). I launch Pages and it tells me there is an update. I quit Pages and did a fast user switch to the admin user. As admin I ran Software Update and applied Pages, Keynote and Garageband updates. I then logout of the admin user and switch back to me (the standard user).

I then re-open Pages and the document I was working on and I got the crash.

An hour or so later, I rebooted the powermac. Low and behold, Pages now opens all documents fine.

So, somehow, something under the covers to do with ATSUI wasn't updated in that logged-in session. i.e. something in-memory. I speculate then that people using this two account setup should also log out of the standard account before logging in to the admin account to apply any updates. A fast user switch - even if you quit running apps - may not be enough.
 
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