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Authored by: allanmarcus on Jan 25, '05 02:08:03PM

re: "Workaround a Bug in Find and Replace The Find and Replace panel in Pages suffers from a bug in Cocoa (the language Pages was written in). If you open the Find and Replace panel (press Command-F) and then enter words in both the Find and Replace boxes, and click Replace and Find, Pages will insert the "replace" word at the current cursor position. In addition, if you press this button after the last "find" word has been replaced, your replace word will be inserted over and over, each time you click the button. "

I don't this this is a cocoa thing. I think it's just how it's programmed. this is the same functionality as BBEdit.

re: "Right now, the only way to insure that PC users see exactly what you see appears to be to physically print the document from Pages or Preview, and then take them the printout."

Any idea why? Is this a limitation of Acrobat?

Also, are there any blank and white templates? Not all of us have color laser printers! :-)

Finally, as for iLife, be very very careful in iPhoto 5. many people are having problems. Some are losing libraries, but most are losing albums. The pictures are still there, but it's easy to lose an album. Here's how I managed to stop album loss:

1) BACKUP your library before you start. You undoubtedly will need to restore.
2) Album loss seems to be associated with moving an album into a folder that contains other albums. I think this only occurs if the album was created prior to iPhoto 5, or if the album has not resided in a folder yet. The answer? Create a dummy folder. Move the album into the dummy folder. Then move the album to the folder you want it in. Once the album is moved into the dummy folder, I think some meta-data gets added tothe album and it's now safe to move.
3) If you move an album into a folder, make sure it's in the folder! If you can't see the album in the folder, undo right away andyou will get your album back. If this happens, try the trick in step 2.

I look forward to playing with iWork. My copy is on order.

-Allan



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Find - Replace, not really a bug but a bad implementation
Authored by: hamarkus on Jan 25, '05 03:17:33PM

I agree with Allan in that the way find/replace works in Cocoa is not a bug but a 'feature', however, its implementation is misleading to say the least.

For once, after hitting command-F the 'Replace' and 'Replace & Find' buttons probably should be grayed out and the 'Next' button be called 'Find' since if nothing is selected (or since nothing is found yet, and thereby nothing selected) there is nothing to replace (yet) and hitting the blue button actually finds something.

And after you, or the find command, has selected something it is not really intuative to select the menu command 'Find' to replace it (although one quickly learns that I guess, like learning to shut Windows by selecting 'Start').



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Find - Replace, not really a bug but a bad implementation
Authored by: robg on Jan 25, '05 04:46:31PM

That was my point -- it really *shouldn't* work that way. Gray out "Replace & Find" until after "Find" has been used.

It also doesn't make much sense that, even if you are using "Replace and Find" in the right way by Finding first, that it keeps replacing *after* you've found all occurrences.

Bug or feature is a minor quibble; it clearly shouldn't work this way! :)

-rob.



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Authored by: robg on Jan 25, '05 05:30:01PM
You asked:
re: "Right now, the only way to insure that PC users see exactly what you see appears to be to physically print the document from Pages or Preview, and then take them the printout."

Any idea why? Is this a limitation of Acrobat?
I've just now proven it's not an Acrobat limitation, because I've found a workaround: if you have the full version of Acrobat, you can use Print and select Adobe PDF as the printer. When you do this, the resulting PDF retains drop shadows, even in Reader on the Mac and PC. We're updating the story with a modified version of the original paragraph, now that I know there's at least one workaround.

The first version of Keynote had similar problems -- it couldn't export transparency levels (it can now). Perhaps it's a related issue. For now, I guess I'll use Adobe's PDF printer as the workaround...
Also, are there any blank and white templates? Not all of us have color laser printers! :-)
While I don't see any black and white design templates (there are some standard letters and postcards with grayscale imagery), there are many that should look just fine in grayscale. The borders and outlines will translate well to grays, and you can just place grayscale imagery (or let the printer convert it).
Finally, as for iLife, be very very careful in iPhoto 5. many people are having problems. Some are losing libraries, but most are losing albums. The pictures are still there, but it's easy to lose an album. Here's how I managed to stop album loss:
I'm going to put this up as a hint under your name; I had the exact same thing happen to me last night!

-rob.

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