#pages 7

The latest generation of Pages – Pages 7 – arrived in March, further refining the latest generation of Apple's signature publishing app and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Pages 5. As we noted in our latest Upgrade Report, Pages 7 adopted a number of exciting new features this generation – and we're now pleased to announce the release of our first wave of updates tailored especially for the latest architectural & workflow revisions that came along with the Pages 7 release.

As we first hinted at in our Upgrade Report, the re-introduction of Page Masters is something of a seismic shift in the Template Architecture landscape, offering major improvements to authoring workflow & ease-of-use, particularly when it comes to mobile authoring & complex document types like Brochures or Newsletters. Longtime or even casual users of Keynote will find the process of constructing & editing a Page Layout document very familiar now, and Pages '09 authors will finally feel right at home in the transition back toward a more Constructive authoring paradigm.

In many ways, Pages 7 is the long-awaited true successor to Pages '09: the core workflow that made Pages such a joy to use in the first place is not just back – it's better than ever before. If you're new to Pages since version 5.x, you're going to be in for a real treat when you settle into the new workflow. But if you're one of the surprising number of Pages '09 holdouts we've heard from over the last year while we've worked to forge a way forward from the Classic-Era Pages model, Pages 7.x is the proverbial droid you've been looking for.

Apple’s new Pages 7 for macOS offers better workflow and tools for producing digital books

“Pages 7 is the latest in a series of ongoing and gradual improvements to the 2013 ‘reboot’ of Apple’s iWork suite or productivity apps, which also includes Numbers and Keynote,” Glenn Fleishman writes for Macworld. “That reboot rewrote the apps from the ground up, but also omitted features that users had relied upon for years.”

“Over time, many of these features were restored even as…

The latest generation of iWork is here: Keynote 8 and Pages 7 arrived on March 27th, further refining the latest generation of Apple's presentation and publishing apps and continuing the Second-Era evolution that began with the launch of Keynote 6 & Pages 5. Keynote and Pages for iOS are updated as well to version 4.0, adopting many of the same core features of the desktop updates and continuing to add increasing feature-parity with the desktop app.

With the dust of the architectural reboots largely settled during the apps' maturation through the Keynote 7 / Pages 6 lines, Keynote 8 and Pages 7 continue to refine & expand on the features and capabilities of the cloud-centric architecture at the heart of their modern lineage. Pages is the clear stand-out in this cycle, with notable improvements on the Authoring Experience front when it comes to Page Layout documents - including the return of Page Masters - and solidly closing the gap on all but a few absent features in the Pages '09 vs Pages 6.x evolution.

If you're already up-to-date with Keynote 7 or Pages 6, the upgrade to Keynote 8 & Pages 7 should feel minimal at the outset, with no major changes to architecture or general workflow. And if you're just now making the break from the classic iWork '09 workflow, you may be in for a pleasant surprise in terms of how far the new apps have come the last few cycles.