From: Darrel McGuiness <dmcguin...@tawarri.id.au>
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Subject: Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:09:28 +0900
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Ian or others,
If writing a draft for a book; what applications (word processing),
would be acceptable?
Regards
Darrel
On 04/02/2009, at 4:50 PM, Ian Conaghan wrote:
I have found that by simply dragging the embedded object onto the
desktop and opening it from within a relevant application eg: image
files - Graphic Convertor or Photoshop etc has always worked for me
but I admit that I haven't tried it with an embedded PDF.
Further to Daniel's comments on sending certain file types to
commercial printers, I quote from the Penfold Buscome Print Buyers
Guide: Applications that are not commercially acceptable and should
be avoided are Microsoft Publisher, Word, Excel or Powerpoint (among
others)
Cheers
Ian
No, did not work.
Has anyone else met and solved this problem?
regards
robin
On 02/02/2009, at 4:35 PM, Eugene wrote:
I don't know if this would work but I have used it many times to
>> extract embedded pictures as separate files.
Subject: Publishing software
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:32:08 +0900
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Hi Darrel
I use Adobe InDesign for our publishing work. Clients prepare their
text input in Word and provide the photos/images separately. I bring
the text and images together and do the layout using Indesign and
eventually save the finished product as a PDF file which goes to the
printer for digital printing.
If the printer is required to do more than just print off the PDF,
they prefer to work with InDesign or Quark Express. I agree with the
comments that generally, no-one likes Word for final document
preparation, but it's great to do the writing - just don't embed
anything else in it, and don't bother with fancy formatting... all
that can be done with the layout program.
Haven't tried Pages for anything big, though it looks good.
Cheers
Mike
From: Mervyn & Giuliana Bond <m...@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: Publishing software
Darrel
My son who has just had a book published uses Adobe InDesign. He is
a landscape photographer and wanted to place his own text and
photographs. Worked well.
If you don't own InDesign a cheaper option is Ragtime. It is a page
layout application that again allows for text and images to be put
where you want them and at resolutions you want. It uses Adobe
Distiller to create the pdf for the printer to use. It is a German
product. Check out
http://www.ragtime.de/start.html?lang_id=en
Merv
Hi Darrel
I use Adobe InDesign for our publishing work. Clients prepare their
text input in Word and provide the photos/images separately. I bring
the text and images together and do the layout using Indesign and
eventually save the finished product as a PDF file which goes to the
>printer for digital printing.
If the printer is required to do more than just print off the PDF,
they prefer to work with InDesign or Quark Express. I agree with the
comments that generally, no-one likes Word for final document
preparation, but it's great to do the writing - just don't embed
anything else in it, and don't bother with fancy formatting... all
that can be done with the layout program.
Haven't tried Pages for anything big, though it looks good.
>
Cheers
Mike
On 08/02/2009, at 1:16 PM, Darrel McGuiness wrote:
Ian or others,
If writing a draft for a book; what applications (word processing),
would be acceptable?
Regards
Darrel
>>On 04/02/2009, at 4:50 PM, Ian Conaghan wrote:
>
Subject: Pages/Spelling
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:03:05 +0900
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Hi there
is any one having trouble with the spell checker with iWork Pages.
Every time I try to use the spell checker the programme quits.
Suggestions?
I like Pages better than Word and want to do all my word processing
with Pages. Numbers and Keynote are also great but different to MS
Office for mac and have to learn the new way of doing things.
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:37:43 +0900
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Subject: Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc
From: James Devenish <jndeven...@gmail.com>
Hi Darrel,
Writing the draft text in Word should be fine. But for the actual
printing (not that I've ever had a book published) I'd expect the
publisher would have their staff reformat it in their own software
before printing, so don't spend too much time using advanced
formatting or converting graphics.
Regards,
James.
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Subject: Re: Pages/Spelling
From: James Devenish <jndeven...@gmail.com>
Hi Stuart,
I agree, using Pages is so much more productive than using Word --
it's surprising how inefficient working in Word is. I think you have a
rare problem with spell checking crashing. Pages uses the same spell
check as all the other Apple apps (e.g., Mail). Do you have the same
problem in any other Apple apps? What version of Mac OS X are you
using, and what version of Pages? There will probably be error
messages from Pages or AppleSpell in your Console log (go into
Applications and then Utiltiies)...although there could be a lot of
other messages in there too.
James.
