DTP in Pages

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Level 2

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DTP in Pages

Just interested: can Pages act a bit as a DTP program. I.e. make simple magazines, print A3, make spreads, use pictures that are wider than one page? I make a simple magazine for our club, way too simple for InDesign or QuarkXpress.
Thanks for your help.

iMac G4 + Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.3), Tiger on the Mini, Panther on the iMac

Posted on Oct 7, 2006 3:15 AM

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Answer 1

Peggy

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Oct 7, 2006 2:49 PM in response to Mr Moto

DTP is what Pages does best.

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Answer 2

Tulse

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Oct 7, 2006 3:50 PM in response to Peggy

To be clear, however, Pages isn't really set up to do things like spread a single graphic across two pages. It is great for basic layout tasks, and I use it all the time to lay out professional documents, but you may find some aspects of it a bit limiting if you want to do a full magazine-style publication.

(Then again, any application that would do better than Pages costs about ten times as much...)

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Mr Moto Author

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Oct 7, 2006 4:32 PM in response to Tulse

So: no printing of A3's, make spreads, use pictures that are wider than one page, etc?

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