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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1176538"><p>For me, the invention of PDF "solved" the whole "what format" problem forever.</p><p></p><p>Since I tend to work mainly in "layout" mode when using Pages, the ability to save as a Word file is <em>utterly useless</em>, since Word simply cannot cope with actual properly laid-out DTP type files. You have to either standardize everyone on the proper design program of your choice (InDesign, Quark, Pages, what have you) *or* you use PDF and the problem is solved permanently.</p><p></p><p>As for Word compatibility, as I say above -- when I need to send a Word document to someone, I just use Pages (or Bean, or Mariner Write, or TextEdit ...) and save in the native format for those programs until I'm sure the document is done, then save a copy to Word format (or, again, just spare myself a lot of aggro and save as PDF) and send it off. No muss, no fuss.</p><p></p><p>I do agree that if one is in a situation where one is constantly sending or exchanging with mainly Microsoft Office users that genuine MS Office is probably the best option, but apart from that niche of people it should be more important to pick the tool that will produce the BEST version of the work you want to do rather than joining the lemmings just because they all use something else. PDF format has made it unnecessary to "conform" to the "standard" when you want to use something else (better), and for that I'm grateful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1176538"] For me, the invention of PDF "solved" the whole "what format" problem forever. Since I tend to work mainly in "layout" mode when using Pages, the ability to save as a Word file is [i]utterly useless[/i], since Word simply cannot cope with actual properly laid-out DTP type files. You have to either standardize everyone on the proper design program of your choice (InDesign, Quark, Pages, what have you) *or* you use PDF and the problem is solved permanently. As for Word compatibility, as I say above -- when I need to send a Word document to someone, I just use Pages (or Bean, or Mariner Write, or TextEdit ...) and save in the native format for those programs until I'm sure the document is done, then save a copy to Word format (or, again, just spare myself a lot of aggro and save as PDF) and send it off. No muss, no fuss. I do agree that if one is in a situation where one is constantly sending or exchanging with mainly Microsoft Office users that genuine MS Office is probably the best option, but apart from that niche of people it should be more important to pick the tool that will produce the BEST version of the work you want to do rather than joining the lemmings just because they all use something else. PDF format has made it unnecessary to "conform" to the "standard" when you want to use something else (better), and for that I'm grateful. [/QUOTE]
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