Yes Ronni, iWork is a great tool, and I've been using it for a few years. I got '09 as soon as it came out. I found the jump from Powerpoint to Keynote was immediate, and I didn't use ppt again. But while I use Pages/Numbers in some situations, I still mainly use Word/Excel because they have some specific features that are really useful - pivot tables and audit in Excel, and styles/macros in Word. The hi res PDF issue from Word has been bugging me though, now neatly solved.
Thanks everyone for contributing. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com>: > > Hi Glenn, > > Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be > disappointed. > > Quick Tips: iWork '09 > <http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard > > On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: > >> >> James, >> >> I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi >> images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same >> result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses >> quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the >> import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). >> >> Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. >> >> Glenn Nicholas >> >> >> >> >> 2009/11/15 James Devenish <jndeven...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> 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> > > -- 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>
