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Juliebird - Sep 11, 2011 7:23:59 am PDT #17800 of 25501
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
le nubian - Sep 11, 2011 7:32:49 am PDT #17801 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
aurelia,
I really like iwork - especially for things not too complicated. If you do not have a lot of excel spreadsheets with complicated formulas or long ass word documents that need master documents structure, etc. I think iwork is just fine for your needs.
Gris - Sep 11, 2011 8:02:52 am PDT #17802 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I agree. I quite like iWork. It's not quite as powerful as Office, but it can do most things just fine. Pages in Page Layout mode is a good Publisher replacement too.
It will take you a little while to get used to them. You might have to do a tutorial or two to get comfortable. But otherwise I think they're great.
aurelia - Sep 11, 2011 8:50:05 am PDT #17803 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Cool, thanks.
Typo Boy - Sep 11, 2011 8:51:51 am PDT #17804 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Can pages in page layout mode handle high resoluion graphics and produce high resolution pdfs as output?
quester - Sep 11, 2011 9:35:05 am PDT #17805 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Is there any reason I shouldn't get iWork instead of Office?
My sister & sister-in-law just got MacBooks. I told SiL that she was better off with iWorks cause it is so much cheaper and you can export the documents as Word documents to send to people with Windows machines.
If you don't need all of the Office apps there is no reason not to just go with iWorks.
Gris - Sep 11, 2011 12:13:20 pm PDT #17806 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Typo Boy: I honestly have no idea. Would you like to send me a high-resolution image? I can try playing with it.
Gris - Sep 11, 2011 12:33:46 pm PDT #17807 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Okay. I downloaded a high-resolution image of the Aurora Borealis, loaded it into Pages and made it small, then created this PDF. I don't have Acrobat Professional so can't check for sure that the resolution stayed the same, but the file size didn't go down and zooming in on Preview seems to keep ridiculously high detail. I'd say that for this resolution, at least, the answer is "yes." Pages has the option of "reducing file size," but I simply never did so.
Typo Boy - Sep 11, 2011 1:52:03 pm PDT #17808 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK if I ever get money again (and I have hopes) i think I will get a Mac. Sounds like Pages is perfect for people who need to do more desktop publishing than they really have the talent for.
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2011 2:58:08 pm PDT #17809 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have the Flixster app on my phone, and it seems a great idea, to be able to tell which movies are where near my GPS location at all times. Except? Its database is for shit. The release dates make no sense. I think it might think I'm in the UK, and be giving me UK release dates, but it also knows my current zipcode. Does anyone know a way to fix that, or have a better app?