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Pages '09 quits when attempting to Save As...
Upon getting to the office, I popped open my MacBook Pro and began delving further into my Pages predicament. Opening the Console and viewing my crash report ended up being the key to cracking this case. Users can access their crash reports by navigating to (username > Library > Logs > DiagnosticReports) and selecting the .crash file that was created at the time of their crash.
While examining the report, I noticed that at the end of my crashed thread (Thread 0) the preference file (com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist) had several extra status entries. From this I determined that my first step to troubleshooting this issue would be to remove the (com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist) file by navigating to (username > Library > Preferences) and dragging the file to my Desktop.
I restarted Pages '09 and attempted to change and subsequently Save as... to find that I no longer experienced a crash. From that point, I deleted the (com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist) file from my Desktop (a new one was created in its place automatically).
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by JWKessler
October 18, 2009 11:14 AM PDT
- I've been battling this myself (and not alone) for some time now. Safari would
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(6 Comments)occasionally crash when trying to print a page as a PDF for instance.
Initially it looked like this could be a font issue. After cleaning out font problems
(duplicates and some with "kern" table warning) the problem seemed to be much reduced, but not gone.
The other day there was an update to a David Pogue initiated discussion on this topic.
http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/27/pogue-snow-leopard-crashes-word-photoshop-printer/
That led to this page;
http://life.innove.it/?p=217
I figured none of the suggestions offered there could be harmful so I tried them.
I've had but one crash since (the new TypeStyler) - but not much time has passed since I did this either.
The comments on the ilounge.com page make me hopeful.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y9b4pzc