During the first babe steps of a project you ’re likely to get wind a destiny about in the come weeks — the production of my daughter ’s preschool yearbook — I encountered more than a couple of quirks when working with Apple ’s iWork page - layout practical program , Pages . Oh sure , I could move to InDesign or Quark to do the work , but , by gum , this is incisively the kind of project iWork was designed for and I ’m determined to bend it to my will , quirks and all .
While Quirk 1 likely has more to do with my HP Photosmart 8450 pressman than with Pages , it ’s still irksome . It ’s like this : When I set about to print a page that contains five photos , one of the exposure does n’t print and , rather , a duplication of one of the other photos on the pageboy appears in its stead — stretch to accommodate the place classify to the original exposure . When I print the same page on my HP LaserJet 1300n , it prints as it should .
To work around the problem , I chose Print from Pages ’ single file menu and saved the document as a PDF . When previewed and print in Acrobat and Preview , the right images appear .
Ah , but as Jeffery Battersby notes in his fine critical review of Pages , when you bring through a Pages document as a PDF file and afford it in Adobe Acrobat , you lose any driblet shadows you ’ve applied to pictures . The drop shadower do appear in Preview , however . The trick , therefore , is to publish your PDFs from Preview rather than Acrobat .
Speaking of free fall shadows leads me to the next queerness . When printing to the HP Photosmart printing machine in regular - old - theme mode ( paper is set to automatic ) , cliff shadow are printed 90 degrees off — if they ’re supposed to appear along the right side and bottom of the image , they appear rather on the top and right side . Yet when I printed in really - expensive - paper style ( high timber with HP Premium Plus Photo Paper selected ) , the drop-off shadows appear where they should . Again , the HP LaserJet did the correct thing and printed the drop curtain tail in their right position .
And what ’s the take - away from all this ? Before dedicate a load of ink and report to a Pages project , impress a single test page with the mount you destine to practice to be sure what you see is what you ’ll get .
