Thanks Phil - excuse my ignorance but what's "Pages"? An Application I buy or download? I'm very old and though I've been using Macs since 1988 my Application knowledge begins and ends with Word and Quark Express. I used to produce a 64 page pub guide on an SE30 running System 6 - oh, happy days! John N
On Oct 10, 3:55 pm, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > That should have been, "there might even be..." > > Hey, it's Saturday, I'm off duty. > > P > > -- > Phil Ward > > Skype: aphilw > E: [email protected] > E: [email protected]/philwardmusic > > Phil Ward is the exclusive UK distributor for Veillette > Guitars.www.veilletteguitars.com > > Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. > > On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:51, Phil Ward wrote: > > > > > > > I'd say do it in Pages - their might even be an existing template, or > > one that can be easily adapted, and save/distribute it as a PDF. If > > you chose a hi-resolution PDF export it will also print pretty well. > > > I'd avoid Word. > > > Phil > > > -- > > Phil Ward > > > Skype: aphilw > > E: [email protected] > > E: [email protected] > >www.myspace.com/philwardmusic > > > Phil Ward is the exclusive UK distributor for Veillette > > Guitars.www.veilletteguitars.com > > > Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. > > > On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:41, John N wrote: > > >> Suggestions, please, on the following. Over the next 2-3 years I plan > >> to scan all our family pics into my iMac. There are several hundred > >> going back to the 1920s, so I will select, say, 150 important ones. I > >> want to produce an album-cum-storybook, with fairly long captions, > >> which will be passed to the grandchildren (x4). They have computers, > >> but not Macs, and it also needs to be produced in "book" form (not > >> necessarily in colour) for those of the family without computers. > >> My idea is to make up the album as a series of pages, perhaps A4 in > >> landscape format, leaving space at the edges for punching holes and > >> loose leaf binding, with the e-versions being put on DVD or memory > >> sticks. > >> What can I use that will be openable by others and can be printed, > >> perhaps by an outside agency? Is the inbuilt "album" on iPhoto > >> suitable, it seems to be useful only if one is sending off for a Mac- > >> produced book - or is that only in the States? Would I be able to do > >> it in Word? > >> Many thanks for ideas > >> John N --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
