I've found Pages simply great and very useful on making documents for idendity scopes, very lighter and faster than InDesign for medium-small documents.
The only thing I missing inside it are the text variables.
Well, this is the name used in InDesign, I'm talking about the creation of text pieces, inserted inside the text areas, this is very useful, if you need redundant informations, like client name and project name.
Does it exist in Pages?
Best Answer
I'm afraid not, which is a shame.
I think your best bet would be to use a program like TextExpander ($35, trial available).
You can use that to define 'variables' (called 'snippets' by TE, which means something entirely different in InDesign...) like this:
You type
c1and it automatically changes toName Of Client 1(you'd fill in the actual name).You can also automatically fetch things like date last modified by setting up a 'snippet' that runs a shell script or AppleScript.
Such a snippet could work like this: You type
doc1modand it would run a script you write (I can help you with that part if you want) that will find the date last modified for a document and replacedoc1modwith that date.This isn't as powerful or convenient as InDesign text variables, but the end result should come close. TextExpander isn't cheap, but I've found it worth the investment.