Okay, the boss says jump, you say how high.
GET OUT OF PUBLISHING MODE IN WORD FOR MAC INSTALL
Rather than install QuickTime on the publisher’s machine, my publisher insisted I screen every graphic on every page and send them JPEGs instead of QuickTime TIFFs. The second issue was that certain embedded graphics, notably QuickTime-encoded TIFF files, did not translate well to a PC not equipped with QuickTime. I had to install a company standard font, and it took forever to get those issues worked out and the documents appearing as they are supposed to in print. The primary cross-platform issue we kept running into at first was that the default font set for Macs didn’t precisely match the default font set on the PC. I used Word because my publisher requires it. Here are some thoughts about my experiences.
The gist of the matter is that Pages is clean, nimble, quick to respond, and limited in functionality – whereas Word can do almost anything if you can just figure out where the command for what you want is hidden.Īnd Word 2004 for the Mac is slooooow as Christmas. This article could still be potentially useful to a person contemplating starting a major writing project. The second book is a novel, not nearly so technically challenging a document, and I had the experience of writing the first one behind me. It was the first book I wrote, and that brings along all sorts of technical challenges. It is called Conceptual Astronomy I and is published by TeachingPoint.
GET OUT OF PUBLISHING MODE IN WORD FOR MAC FULL
First, the book written in Word is a school workbook that’s full of illustrations and handouts and tables and charts. To be fair, these were not scientifically controlled conditions. I’m not here to tell you about the novel (no publisher yet, so no details, sorry), but I can tell you about the experiences I have had writing two different books – the only books I have written in my life – one was written using Microsoft Word the other with Apple’s Pages word processor. That’s because nearly all my free time for writing has been dedicated to writing a novel. If you check my publication history, you can see that the rate at which I have published columns on Low End Mac has dwindled to nearly zero.
I recently (nearly) completed a novel that I started over the summer.
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