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>
