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From: Ian McCall on 14 Jun 2010 16:47
On 2010-06-14 09:35:47 +0100, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com> said:

> In article <87l2oqFhsrU2(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Yep, I'm used to being able to do this kind of thing but never tried in
>> Pages. I don't have Word on the Mac and not sure what it would have
>> done to a Pages 09 page layout document anyway.
>
> I've got Pages and Word - happy to test it for you. I've imported and
> exported Excel and Word files into Numbers and Pages and back out before
> with no mishap but done this only for two things - to get out of Word
> crashing and to use the chart features in Numbers.

Thanks for the offer but job done now. May well try a test document
later just to see how to do this the next time it comes up.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Ian McCall on 14 Jun 2010 16:57
On 2010-06-14 10:14:12 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) said:

> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Whenever I get that response from a client's printshop, I render the
>> whole thing and send them a 300dpi max quality jpeg.
>>
>> I've had 'printshops' that can only handle MS Publisher or jpegs, didn't
>> know what to do with PDFs and had never heard of tiff. They tend to be
>> secretarial services who have expanded what they offer, because they've
>> bought a colour laser printer.
>
> We had a place when we had to get business cards done in a hurry, we
> sent them the image as a jpg, they got back to us with a word template,
> asking if we could make a 10 image template in that, then complained it
> didn't work and were we using a later version of word?
> we only used them as we were in a hurry, and wont again!

I do have a small background in print. Although I rarely worked for the
print bit itself, I worked for a firm who's main business was serious
scale printing - proper web presses and all that. It left me with
enough knowledge to still be residually, well, bluntly to be residually
snobby about the whole thing still. My once decent knowledge of
passably common fonts has now dwindled, but I still mostly know my way
around the classics (and the Font Game off the app store helps jog the
memory a bit). I also did autopagination code, image processing code,
ancient LaTex code (again, knowledge now zero) and worked as a Quark
Xtensions developer for a couple of years.

In short, I'm possible the person you least want to be doing the local
carnival programme. Enough knowledge to be dangerous, not enough to
really know my way around anymore. Even so though - MS Publisher drives
me up the wall. Must be said though, it -does- have better 'divide this
page into equal sections' tools than Pages does. Pages - making sure
all the sections are lining up exactly (half-page/full page adverts) is
quite manual still. It's also not exactly spritely, though I was
abusing it with large PDF imports. The final document is 40 pages of
A5 and comes to 33.9Mb. I reckon that's fairly large for what the tool
was designed for.

Cheers,
Ian

From: Woody on 14 Jun 2010 17:21
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> Even so though - MS Publisher drives
> me up the wall. Must be said though, it -does- have better 'divide this
> page into equal sections' tools than Pages does. Pages - making sure
> all the sections are lining up exactly (half-page/full page adverts) is
> quite manual still.

I am not suprised. Either way I wouldn't want to use either of those
packages in a print shop.



--
Woody

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