{"id":2099,"date":"2010-05-02T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:20:39","slug":"configuring-my-ipad-for-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/05\/02\/configuring-my-ipad-for-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring my iPad for Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64339116@N00\/4571907135\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4068\/4571907135_85ddfeefab_m.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64339116@N00\/4571907135\/\">IMG_1001<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/64339116@N00\/\">hmelton<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Even before my iPad arrived, I ordered the Pages app from the App Store.  I&#8217;ve used a variety of portable devices in my writing over the years and this one looked promising.  Long ago, I had a Tandy Model 100, then various Newtons.  I&#8217;ve worked through many laptops and even written quite a bit on my iPhone.  <\/p>\n<p>While my main work computer is a 15 inch Macbook Pro, it is just a bit large for portable work.  I am in the first days of getting the bugs worked out in my iPad editing work flow.<\/p>\n<p>Pages is a decent word processor that can read and write Word documents.  However, the iPad version lacks features the Mac version has.  My first hurdle was named styles.  I have to create and organize those on the Mac version, but once that is done, the iPad version can use them.  <\/p>\n<p>Moving the document back and forth requires a import\/export process that could be smoother.  And of course there is the learning curve required for the touch screen keyboard and commands.<\/p>\n<p>Still, grabbing the iPad and sitting out on the back deck can be done on a whim, while unplugging the laptop and lugging the carrying case with its external battery system was often too much trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I have high hopes this will be a productivity boost.  Cross fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMG_1001 Originally uploaded by hmelton Even before my iPad arrived, I ordered the Pages app from the App Store. I&#8217;ve used a variety of portable devices in my writing over the years and this one looked promising. Long ago, I had a Tandy Model 100, then various Newtons. I&#8217;ve worked through many laptops and even&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/05\/02\/configuring-my-ipad-for-editing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Configuring my iPad for Editing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,120,75,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-xR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}