i want to use 'pages' to make a photobook in 'photo' with hi res photos/ is this possible?

You can create photo books directly inside the Photos app, then have them printed by Apple.

See this website: http://www.apple.com/osx/print-products/

iWork and iLife do not exist as bundled DVDs, but the apps do come pre-loaded on new computers. If you know which computer you want to purchase, the web page for it lists all the accessories and software that come with it.

I suspect no Pages user has ever tried what you want to do, and I doubt it would work the way you want. Best to use some other commercial service to create your photo book directly from a pdf you generate via Pages.

I think you're underestimating the amount of control that's offered in the templates. On a recent project I did, one page offered over 40 variations. Since Photos is free, just try it, you might be pleasantry surprised.

nola___ wrote:

I want to put pages of text in. I know the text resolution will not be optimum. But it the best way I can do a little family history cheaply and well as a book. I suspect Tom is thinking of this when he says i'll get unexpected results. But Tom doesnt say what these might be, so i cant judge his reply. But perhaps you can do more in pages than i suspect. Hard to know. Is the pages for ipad similar? I can download that and have a look?

I copied a deteriorating booklet - by scanning each page into photoshop - and cleaning/restoring each page. -- I then pulled the pages in order into IPHOTO and created an album -- I then printed the entire album to PDF - so I could give family members a digital and duplexed copy of it.

Not sure about the pages part - try different save as - to get a format for IPHOTO - you can also copy and paste pictures into pages.

You do not need a big single document -- the booklet I scanned had 60 pages -- only I have the separate pages.

if there are any other unexpected outcomes , i would appreciate more understanding of what they might be?

I guess I don't understand why you want to use Photo. What it creates for Apple to print the album is just a pdf. So you are going through a whole additional stage of converting your doc to graphics and then to pdf, with all the attached potential for quality reduction and resolution glitches. Why not just export your Pages doc to pdf in the first place and have someone other than Apple do the hard copies?

nola___ wrote:

Yes. Thanks icloudy. This is similar to my intent. A book for me and my sibs perhaps and pdfs for the wider family. its just that i am intending to make the book in pages and then get a photo album. Im beginning to feel it might be workable. Ill download pages for ipad and have a look. Of course i want to work on the imac. Its take a long time to work on these projects. IPHOTO was very good but PHOTO is what ill need to use when i get a new machine.

Thanks for all your input.

From other posts on this site - both pages and Photos seem to be losing functionality - as it becomes use this on any device anywhere.

You may want to consider checking out Corel Products -- Word Perfect the one used for publishing - or even Adobe's latests Photoshop etc suite.

Plus with their latest pricing - you pay a monthly licensing fee and get release updates - as opposed to paying a lump sum up front.

nola___ wrote:

If you are from Apple, then maybe its too small an issue, but there are some of us out there who love the photobooks apple provides and would be grateful for a pdf direct workaround. (:

Nobody in these forums is from Apple. There's no way to submit your own pdf to the photo books system, you have to use one of the commercial services (search "self publishing" on google for some options).