Re: Gawd! i hate computers... ( Round About...! )

On Oct 1, 7:39 am, Jerry Kindall <jerrykind...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <0001HW.C5076973003597AFB01AD...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,



TaliesinSoft <taliesins...@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:59:16 -0500, The Translucent Amoebae wrote (in article
<5abb7986-f782-43de-89b8-5c9b3c85a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

[wanting to convert a Pages document to a .gif or .jpg so it could be
exported to Flickr]

The Solution i hit upon was to print the page; Then Scan it at 300 dpi. No
Problem.

To repeat what I've posted much further along in this thread.....

a) Export the document from Pages as a .pdf

b) Open the .pdf in Preview

c) Save the document from Preview as either a .jpg or .gif, setting the
resolution as desired.

Simple and quick, taking about twenty seconds. And given that Preview is an
included application with OS X there is no need to acquire any additional
software.

Actually, it's even easier: Print, then click Preview, then save as
JPEG. That way you don't have the temp PDF hanging around cluttering
things up, and you don't have to worry about opening Preview.

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It's not quite that simple on my box for some reason...???
( perhaps because i'm actually trying it, and not just making ***
up...??? )
How do you tell it to save as a JPEG...?
When i Previewed from ( Pages '08 / Print / Preview /
It opens ( of all things...??? ) A Safari document, and when i try to
save this,
It only allows me to choose the name & destination.
And then it's saved as a .pdf
So i open the .pdf and it opens with Preview
Then from Preview, i can save a page as a JPEG OR JPEG 2000
And they both seem about the same... around 150 dpi ( wild guess )
Which is very jaggy in the details.
Once you've saved a few things at 300 dpi, Anything short of that,
looks really crappy.
???
.