Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default).
If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
