

Templates and placeholders can really be made to be fast and efficient.ħ. It also has layout breaks which allow you to finesse a wide range of layouts with a bit of work. Pages '09 has extremely good "Captured Pages" which are multi page repeatable layouts. It still lacks a long list of necessary functions. Pages 6.3 lacks facing pages, master layouts, textbox linking is unidirectional, and is subject to massive slowdowns when the layout gets busy. Use Pages '09 for Layout not the latest Pages 6.3. You can only use the f-keys as Style shortcuts, so those are limited to 12 total.Ħ. You will need to create and impose your own styles.

Copy/Paste/Retain styles has become a total PITA in recent versions of both Pages and macOS. Pages allows links to URLs and has bookmarks, all retained when Printed to pdf.ĥ.

However Pages auto align is superb, way better than Adobe's.Ĥ. Unfortunately whilst Pages has guides they are pretty useless as they are retained in duplicated pages, or layouts. Work with images at 72dpi actual size, this will mean sizing a placeholder image then correcting and cropping a final version from the original, outside Pages (Preview is perfectly OK for this) and reimporting the edited image for the final publication.ģ. If you are not going to print Pages is fine, as it does not have adequate color control for cmyk.Ģ.
