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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.
Gris, what does it say is the opening date of Friends With Benefits? I saw that a month ago, and it's telling me it's opening September 9th. I can navigate by theatre, but not by movie. Is this all because I chose UK English for my typing dictionary?
Well I mean for whatever my next computer. The thing about pages as opposed to indesign is that it may be faster for small or simple project. The thing about having bought a netbook for 179 is that it is fine for word processing but slow for dpt. Which is fine because I knew when I got this it was a bridge computer. I did not have $300 let alone $600 at the time.
It's telling me the release date is July 22. I don't know why it would use the typing dictionary to determine your country, but maybe it actually is that badly programmed. Is there a fandango app? I used to use that on my iPhone and liked it exactly as much as flixster.
Is there anywhere else I might have said what country I'm in? I can't think of one. Regardless, the GPS should trump whatever country I might have said I'm from.
Let me go look for fandango.
