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Yosemite, is it worth it?
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<blockquote data-quote="rubaiyat" data-source="post: 1627827" data-attributes="member: 240393"><p>Not a major tool, but a very useful one.</p><p></p><p>I created a series of City Guides and lots of user manuals in Pages '09 because it was so fast for those tasks. I have tried to do the same in MsWord and LibreOffice, Indesign, Quark XPress and Swift Publishing, all of which took way longer to mostly get inferior results.</p><p></p><p>It also does great reports, and is extremely popular in universities and for eBooks.</p><p></p><p>Pages '09 has <u>several referencing tools</u> that I know of, most free. Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley, Sente, Papers, Bookends, Qiqqa and others…</p><p></p><p>The problem really, as in nearly everything I see lately, is you have given your opinion without really knowing much on the subject. Sorry to be blunt but it is becoming a depressingly common practice to excuse inferior work, and dismiss anything else just because it is unfamiliar.</p><p></p><p>Sadly Michael E. Cohen has just released "Take Control of Pages" covering Pages 5 and the changes, without actually getting on top of the subject either.</p><p></p><p>Because Pages has an extremely sophisticated spreadsheet/table built in, along with all the graphics/charting tools it has served many businesses well since Apple trashed AppleWorks.</p><p></p><p>PS Word and PowerPoint files converted to Pages and Keynote "lack fidelity". It all depends on the ruler you user for the measure. I can not help but observe just how much really awful work is produced by the armies of people armed with nothing but Microsoft's Office Suite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rubaiyat, post: 1627827, member: 240393"] Not a major tool, but a very useful one. I created a series of City Guides and lots of user manuals in Pages '09 because it was so fast for those tasks. I have tried to do the same in MsWord and LibreOffice, Indesign, Quark XPress and Swift Publishing, all of which took way longer to mostly get inferior results. It also does great reports, and is extremely popular in universities and for eBooks. Pages '09 has [U]several referencing tools[/U] that I know of, most free. Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley, Sente, Papers, Bookends, Qiqqa and others… The problem really, as in nearly everything I see lately, is you have given your opinion without really knowing much on the subject. Sorry to be blunt but it is becoming a depressingly common practice to excuse inferior work, and dismiss anything else just because it is unfamiliar. Sadly Michael E. Cohen has just released "Take Control of Pages" covering Pages 5 and the changes, without actually getting on top of the subject either. Because Pages has an extremely sophisticated spreadsheet/table built in, along with all the graphics/charting tools it has served many businesses well since Apple trashed AppleWorks. PS Word and PowerPoint files converted to Pages and Keynote "lack fidelity". It all depends on the ruler you user for the measure. I can not help but observe just how much really awful work is produced by the armies of people armed with nothing but Microsoft's Office Suite. [/QUOTE]
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