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From: Elliott Roper on 16 Mar 2010 06:18
In article <nospam-325B19.09323916032010(a)news.virginmedia.com>,
eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote:

> In article <150320102218534810%nospam(a)yrl.co.uk>,
> Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > In article <nospam-CB5F6E.21352215032010(a)news.virginmedia.com>,
> > eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote:
>
> > I know what I would do. Publish the whole thing in InDesign or Quark
> > and distribute it as a PDF. Even then, binding needs to be thought
> > about. You would like to position the big thing on the centre pages of
> > a signature. Word is not made to do proper layout or typography. It
> > peaks at second rate internal memos and ransom notes.
>
> Indeed - it's already been printed and put on a site as a PDF but
> someone wants to use the diagram in their own Word document. I apologise
> for bringing up Word in polite conversation and thanks for the tips.
>
> E.

Oh well, that's their problem! You might suggest they prune the PDF in
Preview or Acrobat and place the resulting spread 1/4 size on a
landscape page in their Word doc.

Of course, that means they will need section breaks around it and that
means that Word will bust it into three files for printing or as PDFs.
AND, depending on Word version, they may find that Word replaces the
PDF picture with a jaggy low-res preview in the PDF output.

Executive Summary: Microsoft Word is not fit for purpose.

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From: Geoff Berrow on 16 Mar 2010 08:05
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:35:22 +0000, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com>
wrote:

>What I want to do is take a double page algorithm currently in an A4
>two-page spread in QuarkXpress and put it into a facing pages in a A4
>Word doc. Obviously I can save as a JPG or PDF, but I'm too tired now to
>work out how I create a double page picture box in Word (I have Pages
>too which I presume will save to Word).

Well if you have Word, do you not have Publisher, which is more suited
to the job.
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From: Elliott Roper on 16 Mar 2010 17:47
In article <20tup55hbluh6a3c07qnognnd0tj4msol5(a)4ax.com>, Geoff Berrow
<blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:35:22 +0000, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >What I want to do is take a double page algorithm currently in an A4
> >two-page spread in QuarkXpress and put it into a facing pages in a A4
> >Word doc. Obviously I can save as a JPG or PDF, but I'm too tired now to
> >work out how I create a double page picture box in Word (I have Pages
> >too which I presume will save to Word).
>
> Well if you have Word, do you not have Publisher, which is more suited
> to the job.

There is no Publisher in the Mac flavours of Office. In fact I have
never seen a Mac application that can operate on Publisher files at any
sensible level. I think that is because Publisher does not have a
sensible level.

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From: Pd on 17 Mar 2010 02:32
Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> There is no Publisher in the Mac flavours of Office. In fact I have
> never seen a Mac application that can operate on Publisher files at any
> sensible level. I think that is because Publisher does not have a
> sensible level.

Well said.

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From: Andy Hewitt on 17 Mar 2010 03:50
Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <20tup55hbluh6a3c07qnognnd0tj4msol5(a)4ax.com>, Geoff Berrow
> <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:35:22 +0000, eastender <nospam(a)nospam.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >What I want to do is take a double page algorithm currently in an A4
> > >two-page spread in QuarkXpress and put it into a facing pages in a A4
> > >Word doc. Obviously I can save as a JPG or PDF, but I'm too tired now to
> > >work out how I create a double page picture box in Word (I have Pages
> > >too which I presume will save to Word).
> >
> > Well if you have Word, do you not have Publisher, which is more suited
> > to the job.
>
> There is no Publisher in the Mac flavours of Office. In fact I have
> never seen a Mac application that can operate on Publisher files at any
> sensible level. I think that is because Publisher does not have a
> sensible level.

It's also not included in the 'Home & Student' edition for Windows
either. IMHO Publisher is the spawn of the devil (along with Works)

It's about the only reason I actually have VirtualBox and Windows
installed.

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