A Wicket Diary

I just wrote about my troubles with Pages and trying to write for Wicket in Action. Apple support is really quick: my blog entry was not up for longer than 8 hours, and they apparently already have fixed it!

About Pages 3.0.1
This update primarily addresses issues with change tracking and performance.

I already figured it had to do with change tracking, as before we sent the documents to our editor, we had nothing to complain about performance. However, when we received our feedback, it came in a Word document that had change tracking on.

Installing the upgrade as we speak! Thanks to John Gruber for his update on Daring Fireball.

The new Pages in iWork’08 seems to have some uncomfortable bugs: it claims quite a lot of memory, hogs the CPU, and often freezes my whole OS X GUI. To put it mildly: I have to restart Pages several times a day to make it usable.

It looks like the memory management of Pages 3 is b0rked. While I’m typing this, Pages is trying to shut down (now for over a minute!). It is using one core of my CoreDuo, and about 70-80% of the time it is spending time in the kernel, increasing the real memory usage (now 471 MB).

The shutdown has now finished, in over 5 minutes!!! AAAARGH.