Converting Pages to Word (was Re: Creating high resolution PDF)
On 15/11/2009, at 5:58 PM, Lloyd White wrote: iPages is fine for creating PDFs, but my clients send me Word files for editing. I can open them with iPages but how do I save them in a format that my clients can open with MS Word? They do not want PDF files because they cannot be edited. That is why it seems that I am doomed to work in MS Word. :-(( If you are using iWork '09 then under the Share Menu, choose Export. You then have a number of tabs, including Word. Select this and you can save the Pages Document into a Word Document that any Word user (Mac or PC) can open fine -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@nicholaspyers.com) Heaven on Earth? No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Converting Pages to Word (was Re: Creating high resolution PDF)
Remembering that Word cannot open some Pages themes, graphics etc. Reg On 15/11/2009, at 7:05 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: On 15/11/2009, at 5:58 PM, Lloyd White wrote: iPages is fine for creating PDFs, but my clients send me Word files for editing. I can open them with iPages but how do I save them in a format that my clients can open with MS Word? They do not want PDF files because they cannot be edited. That is why it seems that I am doomed to work in MS Word. :-(( If you are using iWork '09 then under the Share Menu, choose Export. You then have a number of tabs, including Word. Select this and you can save the Pages Document into a Word Document that any Word user (Mac or PC) can open fine -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@nicholaspyers.com) Heaven on Earth? No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Converting Pages to Word (was Re: Creating high resolution PDF)
Hi Reg, Are you saying Word can't open the Pages document? Word should be able to 'Open' the document. Sometimes you don't get an exact Word copy as the Pages file, only close, but close is a hundred times better than trying to get Word to behave while doing picture formatting and embedding. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 8:17 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Remembering that Word cannot open some Pages themes, graphics etc. Reg -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
I've been using Word for business docs, but also have Pages. This could be a good reason to bite the bullet and leave (too many) years of practice with Word styles behind. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/14 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: On 14/11/2009, at 2:08 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: It is very easy to create a low resolution PDF file on a Mac, just using the built in Save as PDF feature from the Mac's print function. But what are the options for creating hi res PDF files? I understand the full version of Adobe Acrobat (about $550 AUD) can do it. And I'm sure InDesign does as well. Are there simpler (less expensive) options anyone can recommend? Hi Glenn, Pages in iWork you can export your document at high resolution PDF. PDF files can be created using an image quality of good, better, or best. When the image quality is set to best, the resolution of images isn't scaled down. When the image quality is set to better, images are downsampled to 150 dpi. When the image quality is set to good, images are downsampled to 72 dpi. Images without an alpha channel are JPEG compressed with a compression level of 0.7 at the good setting and 0.9 at the better setting. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
On 14/11/2009, at 8:02 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: I've been using Word for business docs, but also have Pages. This could be a good reason to bite the bullet and leave (too many) years of practice with Word styles behind. Pages supports Styles... and in my opinion, in a better fashion than Word - it SHOWS you what the style actually looks like... you can also assign 'F-keys' to styles. -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@nicholaspyers.com) Heaven on Earth? No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
Hi Glenn, Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be disappointed. Quick Tips: iWork '09 http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
Yes Ronni, iWork is a great tool, and I've been using it for a few years. I got '09 as soon as it came out. I found the jump from Powerpoint to Keynote was immediate, and I didn't use ppt again. But while I use Pages/Numbers in some situations, I still mainly use Word/Excel because they have some specific features that are really useful - pivot tables and audit in Excel, and styles/macros in Word. The hi res PDF issue from Word has been bugging me though, now neatly solved. Thanks everyone for contributing. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: Hi Glenn, Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be disappointed. Quick Tips: iWork '09 http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
iPages is fine for creating PDFs, but my clients send me Word files for editing. I can open them with iPages but how do I save them in a format that my clients can open with MS Word? They do not want PDF files because they cannot be edited. That is why it seems that I am doomed to work in MS Word. :-(( Lloyd Yes Ronni, iWork is a great tool, and I've been using it for a few years. I got '09 as soon as it came out. I found the jump from Powerpoint to Keynote was immediate, and I didn't use ppt again. But while I use Pages/Numbers in some situations, I still mainly use Word/Excel because they have some specific features that are really useful - pivot tables and audit in Excel, and styles/macros in Word. The hi res PDF issue from Word has been bugging me though, now neatly solved. Thanks everyone for contributing. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: Hi Glenn, Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be disappointed. Quick Tips: iWork '09 http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
Lloyd, Pages save in MS Word format with a high level of compatibility. Just do a Save As or Share. Your clients will not have any problems opening it. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au inline: (null) 4.tiff On 15/11/2009, at 2:58 PM, Lloyd White wrote: iPages is fine for creating PDFs, but my clients send me Word files for editing. I can open them with iPages but how do I save them in a format that my clients can open with MS Word? They do not want PDF files because they cannot be edited. That is why it seems that I am doomed to work in MS Word. :-(( Lloyd Yes Ronni, iWork is a great tool, and I've been using it for a few years. I got '09 as soon as it came out. I found the jump from Powerpoint to Keynote was immediate, and I didn't use ppt again. But while I use Pages/Numbers in some situations, I still mainly use Word/Excel because they have some specific features that are really useful - pivot tables and audit in Excel, and styles/macros in Word. The hi res PDF issue from Word has been bugging me though, now neatly solved. Thanks everyone for contributing. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: Hi Glenn, Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be disappointed. Quick Tips: iWork '09 http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
Could be worse.. You could be forced (doomed) to work with M$ Publisher!!! ;-) P.S. You can work in Pages and export to Word or RTF, which Word users can open. It just might not support all the Word formatting. On 15/11/09 2:58 PM, Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au wrote: iPages is fine for creating PDFs, but my clients send me Word files for editing. I can open them with iPages but how do I save them in a format that my clients can open with MS Word? They do not want PDF files because they cannot be edited. That is why it seems that I am doomed to work in MS Word. :-(( Lloyd Yes Ronni, iWork is a great tool, and I've been using it for a few years. I got '09 as soon as it came out. I found the jump from Powerpoint to Keynote was immediate, and I didn't use ppt again. But while I use Pages/Numbers in some situations, I still mainly use Word/Excel because they have some specific features that are really useful - pivot tables and audit in Excel, and styles/macros in Word. The hi res PDF issue from Word has been bugging me though, now neatly solved. Thanks everyone for contributing. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: Hi Glenn, Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be disappointed. Quick Tips: iWork '09 http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T 08 9842 9660 F 08 9842 9664 E stuart.ev...@t4.com.au BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T 08 9721 9660 F 08 9842 9664 P PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU PRINT THIS E-MAIL _ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: DISCLAIMER This correspondence is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information or both. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mis-transmission. If you receive this correspondence in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. Any opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the opinions of T4 Technology. Neither the sender nor T4 Technology warrants that any communication via the Internet is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference. T4 Technology disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this electronic mail and any attachments. Information is distributed without warranties of any kind. _ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
Hello Lloyd, In Pages you can export to Word's doc format. Cheers, Ronni On 15/11/2009, at 2:58 PM, Lloyd White wrote: iPages is fine for creating PDFs, but my clients send me Word files for editing. I can open them with iPages but how do I save them in a format that my clients can open with MS Word? They do not want PDF files because they cannot be edited. That is why it seems that I am doomed to work in MS Word. :-(( Lloyd Yes Ronni, iWork is a great tool, and I've been using it for a few years. I got '09 as soon as it came out. I found the jump from Powerpoint to Keynote was immediate, and I didn't use ppt again. But while I use Pages/Numbers in some situations, I still mainly use Word/Excel because they have some specific features that are really useful - pivot tables and audit in Excel, and styles/macros in Word. The hi res PDF issue from Word has been bugging me though, now neatly solved. Thanks everyone for contributing. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com: Hi Glenn, Yeah, give Word the flick ;-) Once you use iWork '09 you won't be disappointed. Quick Tips: iWork '09 http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/23/quick-tips-iwork-09/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 15/11/2009, at 10:54 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: James, I went back and did a test, and sure enough when importing 72dpi images and creating a PDF, Word and Pages come up with the same result. But if you import a hi res JPG image, the Word version loses quality in the final PDF (and as you point out this happens during the import into Word, not the creation of the PDF). Nicholas - the styles in Pages are good, I agree. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/15 James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com: Hi, Mac OS X's built-in Save as PDF produces high-res, lossless PDF files. It uses the document's images with no loss of quality -- can't get any higher res than that! It is also the reason that Mac PDFs are often larger than Adobe PDFs (Acrobat compresses images to lower quality for smaller file size by default). If you find that PDFs from Word are low-res, that's because Word converts many standard high res formats (e.g., PDF) down to 72 dpi upon import. Only a few formats escape this butchering...perhaps Microsoft's own Windows Metafile Format. This is one reason of many many reasons why Word is the bane of people who work in the printing industry. Pages is a much better programme for many purposes (in fact, after using Pages I've realised how bad Word is, to the extent that I now believe Word is a major killer of office productivity and probably costs the world unfathomable $$ in lost time and labour). Unfortunately Pages has one major flaw - outline numbering doesn't work automatically. For me this is a show-stopper with long technical documents. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Creating high resolution PDF
It is very easy to create a low resolution PDF file on a Mac, just using the built in Save as PDF feature from the Mac's print function. But what are the options for creating hi res PDF files? I understand the full version of Adobe Acrobat (about $550 AUD) can do it. And I'm sure InDesign does as well. Are there simpler (less expensive) options anyone can recommend? Glenn Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
On 14/11/2009, at 5:08 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: It is very easy to create a low resolution PDF file on a Mac, just using the built in Save as PDF feature from the Mac's print function. But what are the options for creating hi res PDF files? I understand the full version of Adobe Acrobat (about $550 AUD) can do it. And I'm sure InDesign does as well. Are there simpler (less expensive) options anyone can recommend? What apps are you using to create the original document? iWork (Pages, Keynote Numbers) all have an Export/Share option that allows you to create Good, Better and Best quality PDFs. Good is fine for screen, Best should be the 'hi-res' style you are looking for -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@nicholaspyers.com) Heaven on Earth? No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating high resolution PDF
On 14/11/2009, at 2:08 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: It is very easy to create a low resolution PDF file on a Mac, just using the built in Save as PDF feature from the Mac's print function. But what are the options for creating hi res PDF files? I understand the full version of Adobe Acrobat (about $550 AUD) can do it. And I'm sure InDesign does as well. Are there simpler (less expensive) options anyone can recommend? Hi Glenn, Pages in iWork you can export your document at high resolution PDF. PDF files can be created using an image quality of good, better, or best. When the image quality is set to best, the resolution of images isn't scaled down. When the image quality is set to better, images are downsampled to 150 dpi. When the image quality is set to good, images are downsampled to 72 dpi. Images without an alpha channel are JPEG compressed with a compression level of 0.7 at the good setting and 0.9 at the better setting. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
