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>
