{"id":690,"date":"2018-08-21T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:14:14","slug":"i-need-a-flux-capacitor-to-fix-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/21\/i-need-a-flux-capacitor-to-fix-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I need a flux capacitor to fix this\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently wrote an article<\/a> for\u00a0TidBITS about the app\u2019s resurrected text-box-linking feature. A reader responded with complaints about Pages 7:<\/p>\n

Whatever, it is still the most ignorant word processing software. I can open a document in Word I made in 2007 with office 2016- with Pages no way. I have to update to a more recent version. That\u2019s not just cloudy it\u2019s ridiculous and nobody I know who uses a Mac uses Pages. If they would have made it backwards compatible then it would be a viable software. But as we know Apple only does things (basic word) to their convenience on many levels.<\/p>\n

I responded to the \u201cbackwards compatible\u201d complaint:<\/p>\n

I just dug up an old Word .doc file of mine that was last modified in 2004 and had no problem opening it with Pages 7. I can also open files made with Pages 4 in Pages 7. The rumors of Pages\u2019 lack of backward compatibility may be exaggerated.<\/p>\n

Turns out, this reader had a\u2026unique<\/em>\u2026interpretation of what backward compatibility entailed:<\/p>\n

Pages 3.0.3 will not open documents created with later Pages. That\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n

Pages 3.0.3 was released 10 years ago. I suppose I could climb into my Delorean, travel to Apple in 2007, and deliver the Pages 7 file format specs to the Pages 3 development team, but that almost certainly would split the timeline and cause serious instability in the multiverse. So I probably won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I guess the disgruntled reader wins this round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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