![]() Pages is a word processor and page layout application. Some of these missing features were put back over the next releases but the current version (12.1) still lacks features from version 4.3, including the ability to select non-contiguous regions of text, advanced find/replace functions, and more. In this release, many templates, as well as some advanced features that were available in version 4.3, were not included. On October 23, 2013, Apple released a redesign with Pages 5.0 and made it free for anyone with an iOS device. Pages for iOS 1.7.1 introduced better compatibility with Word and Pages for Mac and version 1.7.2, released on March 7, 2013, merely added stability improvements and bug fixes. Pages for OS X was updated to version 4.3 on December 4, 2012, to support Pages 1.7 for iOS, which was released on the same day. iOS Pages was updated to version 1.6 on March 7, 2012, and will only run on iOS 5.1 or later. On October 12, 2011, Apple updated the iOS app to version 1.5, adding the iCloud "Documents in the Cloud" feature. On May 31, 2011, Apple updated the iOS version of Pages to 1.4, bringing universal binaries, allowing the app to be run on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. On January 27, 2010, Apple announced a new version of Pages for iPad with a touch interface. On January 6, 2009, Apple released the fourth version of Pages as a component of iWork '09. Of course if you're just doing a one off sign like that and you have a good color printer then using a background could be an interesting way to make it stand out.On January 11, 2005, Apple announced the first version of Pages, as part of iWork '05. But now that we create things like PDF's and all with Pages mostly you can use this to make some interesting backgrounds. Can you image the amount of ink you're going to use when you're printing these out even on a good, efficient laser printer or something. Obviously these are probably not going to be used for things that you print out. I can, you know, change it to a different color to do something different with it. So I can change the color, the tint, of what I'm using which in this case works out really well. The interesting thing about Advanced Image Fill is using the same image but now you can actually colorize it. So that's really useful to be able to do it like that. If I tile it, you can see there it is tiled. Now I can scale to fill it and that's what it looks like. I'm going to drag an image file from the Finder. ![]() You can choose to have it displayed either tiled, scale the whole thing to fill, scale to fit. It can be a photograph, it could be a texture, whatever. Lots of things that you can do in Advanced Gradient Fill. Add another color in there so I can have multiple colors. I can change the mid point between colors. Now I can actually, you know, have more one color than another. For more complex settings go to Advances Gradient Fill. I can change what color it goes from and what color it goes to. So you can see I can have it go left to right or up and down. ![]() Gradient fill gets a little more complex. I can choose from here or click here to bring up the color selector and choose any color I want. I can choose from one of these chips here. So I can change to Color Fill and you can see it does a solid color here. So let's zoom out, actually, so we can see the whole page here. If it's closed you want to open it by clicking here. You can see here that there's a section for background. Now you want to make sure Format is selected here in the right sidebar. But page layout documents are used to create things like signs and brochures, that's where this feature is. That's when you have text flowing from one page to the next. ![]() As a standard word processing document this feature isn't available. I'm going to choose a basic template here and I'm going to convert that to a page layout document. Video Transcript: The latest version of Pages, version 7.1, has a new feature that allows you to add a background in page layout documents. Check out Pages Backgrounds at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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