Apr 15
My friend Dave has just moved across to mac and he tells me that in Microsoft publisher you can use a booklet template to make a booklet. By booklet I mean A4 pages folded in half to make an A5 booklet that you staple in the middle. To do this all the pages need to be re-ordered, for example, page 8 goes near page 1, page 2 near page 7 and so on. Publisher did this automatically.
With Pages in OS X there is no such built in option to do this automatically, but there is a great little program called ‘create booklet’ that will do it for you when you go to print the document.
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Mar 03
Combining pdf documents in OSX is now easy. Leopard and Snow Leopard have the ability to move pdf pages around and even merge two pdf documents together. It’s built right in to OS X – you don’t need a third party program to do it!
To join two or more pdf files together using Preview – the standard pdf viewer in OS X – simply open a pdf in preview and then drag a second pdf file ON TOP OF an existing thumbnail, and the two documents will merge. Read on for step by step instructions. Continue reading »
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Apr 15
Here’s a list of some programs that you can download for free from versiontracker.com or find via a google search to supplement the software that comes with your mac. Continue reading »
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Jan 21
Switching to OS X from a PC is a big change, It’s a big enough change going from OS9 to OS X. So here are a some of my random thoughts on the transition. Continue reading »
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Jan 04
Do you have a problem on your macintosh that you’d like help with, or a suggestion for a ‘how to’ article? Submit it here as a comment and I’ll do my best to answer it ASAP.
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