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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.
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.
Cool, thanks.
Can pages in page layout mode handle high resoluion graphics and produce high resolution pdfs as output?
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.
Typo Boy: I honestly have no idea. Would you like to send me a high-resolution image? I can try playing with it.
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.
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.
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?
Typo Boy, inDesign costs $699 - might be cheaper than a new Mac if that's the only reason you'd buy it. And of course, it's amazing.
ETA: Flixster works fine for me. I've got nothing.
