Tips & tricks for Apples Pages

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We have just released our bumper brochure template pack for
Pages.

The pack contains 30 different brochures including 3 panel, Landscape and portrait layouts, in both US & ISO formats.

We also include a fonts pack to accompany the template sets.

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How to wrap text around an object in Apples Pages Application from David Allsop on Vimeo.

This week we are looking at how to set images as placeholders within Pages.

Setting Images as Placeholders in Apples Pages from David Allsop on Vimeo.

This video is a quick introduction in how to manually install Pages templates in to the template chooser.

If you have any Pages or Apple topics that you would like us to cover in our How to videos then drop us a line: hello@oneeyedgoldfish.com

Installing Template in to Apples iWork App Pages from David Allsop on Vimeo.

  So here we have the first of our “How To” videos.

This video covers the Locking & Unlocking of elements within Apples Pages.

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OEGF_Locking Elements from David Allsop on Vimeo.

Some of the nicest features of Pages is the drag and drop and layering tools. In this blog entry we’re going to look at adding cool backgrounds to your Pages documents.

Step One: Find or create your background. A good place to start is the outstanding resource & info site BittBox www.bittbox.com

This is where I got the background from for this post.

Now that you have your background open up a new Blank Page Layout document.

With your page open open up Finder and locate your background image

Drag the image in to the Pages documentr

Then just resize till it fits the page

You can use the lock and opacity tools to make the adjustments and to secure the background to the page.

Sometimes when we want to print a document we only want certain elements to be printed, such as text and no images or no borders etc.

One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to use the Opacity tool in the Pages Inspector.

In the document you want to print without certain elements select the elements that you want to hide.

In the inspector panel select the object button and then drag the Opacity slider to 0%

Then you can print.

The objects are still on the page but wont show on the print. To reinstate them
you just slide the Opacity back to 100%

Perfect for valentines day the Love is in the Air Pages Template set contains templates for a Love Letter, a beautiful Valentines Card and a Matching Envelope.

This template set is downloadable now for just £2.50 and includes U.S. & ISO Size. More…

Pages has a lot of tools to make life easier when it comes to creating your documents. One of the must use features is the Fonts Panel.

This little window has a lot of power hidden in it that I will hopefully explore in the article.

Starting at the beginning:

The Fonts Panel in Pages is a floating window just like the inspector.

To open / access the Fonts Panel click the fonts “A” Icon on the top right of the Pages menu bar

Once open you can now access some really helpful features:

1) Font previews - One of the most useful features of the fonts panel is that you can now preview a font before you add it to your document. To open up the font preview click the “cog” button at the bottom left of the Panel & select Show Preview:

2) Quick text effects one - Adding and adjusting text shadow / colour / strikethroughs / underlines & document colour.

Button One: Underline - Four options here - pretty self explanatory - Underline your text with 1, 2 or / & coloured lines

Button Two: Strikethroughs - Same as the Underline tool with regards the options.

Button Three - Font Colour Chooser - The third icon launches the colour chooser

Button Four - Document / text box colour chooser:

Button Five - Text Shadow and settings:

More on the Font Panel Soon…