Re: iWork vs. Microsoft Office

Tim Streater <timstreater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

IME Word handles images much *worse*. I'm fed up with images
disappearing into the cracks between pages or moving to strange places
within the doc, without so much as a by-your-leave.

Either that, or mysteriously printing at 300dpi no matter *what* you
try, which is one of the problems that my other half often runs in to.

She gets the same behaviour when trying MS Word on her Windoze box at
work or the different version here on our Macs - hence my occasional
bouts of frantic LaTeX hackery to get something downright strange set up
in a hurry 'cos it's the only bloody way to do the bloody job because MS
Word is so bloody crap.

LaTeX doesn't handle images as such, which is a Good Thing- it just
slaps 'em in the output file (pdf if you're using pdfTeX like most folk
do these days) totally unmessed about with[1]. Yer input image is
identical to what gets printed.

(LaTeX's great for what it's good at - but it's a major pain in the
backside if you want to produce arbitrary page layout that you don't
have a class or package file to help you with)

In-line or floating
seems to work reasonably well, but I don't really trust Word with
images. It's not a page-layout program.

I wish I knew what the point of MS Word was. I don't know of anyone who
makes extensive use of it who doesn't have major complaints about the
awkwardness of the thing or its inability to perform ordinary WPing
tasks competently (such as including graphical elements).

Rowland.

[1] Okay, there's the graphics package that does permit some messing
about. But if you don't apply a transform, the image just gets wrapped
up and inserted in the pdf file.

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