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| Developed by | Apple Inc. |
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| Latest release | 3.0.2 / January 29, 2008 |
| OS | Mac OS X |
| Type | Word processor / Page layout |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Pages |
For other uses, see Pages_(disambiguation).
Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple Inc. and a part of the iWork productivity suite (which also includes Keynote and Numbers) developed by Apple. Pages 1.0 was announced at the beginning of 2005 and started selling in February 2005. Pages 3 was announced on August 7, 2007 and runs on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard only.
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History
Pages on Mac OS X is the successor of Apple's multipurpose office suite AppleWorks. The first rumors of a new Apple word processor to replace AppleWorks circulated the Internet through Mac rumor websites in 2003, suggesting a new software package to be released by Apple called "iWorks" or "iWork". Many Mac users were expecting the new program (which rumor sites then claimed would be called "Documents") in 2004. Steve Jobs, Apple CEO finally announced iWork '05 along with iLife '05 at the beginning of 2005.
iWork '08 began shipping in 2007 which includes Pages '08, Keynote '08, and Numbers '08 (Apple's spreadsheet application).
There was a program of the same name made for NeXT computers by Pages Software, Inc., including similar WYSIWYG page layout features as Pages for Mac OS X. Since Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, this has led to suggestions that these programs are based on the same codebase. However, since Pages Software's NeXTSTEP assets seem to have been acquired by a Chicago-based IT solutions company, this speculation appears to be unfounded. It is known that Pages for Mac OS X was developed by the same team that developed Keynote 2, a presentation program included in iWork.
A new version of Pages was included in iWork '09.
Features
Pages includes support for multi-column layouts, paragraph and character styles, footnotes, and Mac OS X built in typographic capabilities. The program can create lists, URL links, page breaks, and will accept data from iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto. Pages contains templates for newsletters, invoices, essays, stationery, invitations, educational materials and other types of documents.
Pages can import later-release AppleWorks word processing documents and Microsoft Word documents (including Word 2007's Office Open XML format [1]), and can export documents to RTF, PDF and Microsoft Word .doc formats.
Pages and Word
Pages is most often compared with Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac.[citation needed]
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Neither Pages 3.0 nor Microsoft Word 2004 or Word 2008 for Mac OS X has fully working support for right to left scripts like Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.[citation needed] Neither product supports the OpenDocument format.[citation needed] Other functions that exist in both products are often implemented in very different ways when it comes to ease of use.[citation needed] |
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Version history
| Version Number | Release Date | Changes |
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| 1.0 | February 2005 | Initial release. |
| 1.0.1 | March 17, 2005 | Fixes isolated bugs and issues causing problems to some customers. It also allowed the deletion of template pages. |
| 1.0.2 | May 25, 2005 | Addresses issues with page navigation and organization. |
| 2.0 | January 10, 2006 | Released as part of iWork'06. Includes new templates, table calculations, photo masking with shapes and freestyle bezier curves. |
| 2.0.1 | April 26, 2006 | Pages 2.0.1 addresses issues with charts and image adjust. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. |
| 2.0.1v2 | May 1, 2006 | Pages 2.0.1 addresses issues with charts and image adjust. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. |
| 2.0.2 | September 28, 2006 | Pages 2.0.2 addresses issues with Aperture compatibility. |
| 3.0 | August 7, 2007 | Pages 3.0 released as part of iWork '08. Introduced compatibility with Office Open XML (Microsoft Office 2007) files. Introduced Change Tracking. Transparency tool for pictures. Pages 3.0 needs only a third (260 MB) of the harddisk space required for Pages 2.0 (760 MB) despite the added functionality. |
| 3.0.1 | September 27, 2007 | Addresses issues with performance and change tracking. |
| 3.0.2 | January 29, 2008 | This update addresses compatibility with Mac OS X. |
| 4.0 | January 6, 2009 | Released as a part of iWork '09. New features include the ability to edit in full screen view, better compatibility with Microsoft Office, and the option to upload documents to the new iWork.com service. |
See also
- List of word processors
- Comparison of word processors
- Microsoft Word
- AppleWorks
- Desktop publishing
- iWork
- Keynote (presentation software)
- Numbers (software)
- Office Open XML software
References
External links
- iWork Community
- Pages FAQ Unofficial FAQ based mostly on content from Apple's support forums.
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