Pages '09 is more than just a word processor. It lets you create gorgeous page layouts for glossy newsletters, catalogs, brochures, greeting cards-you name it. This eBook makes you an instant expert in Pages' layout features. You'll learn how to arrange your text so it really flows and how to complement it with images, sounds, and movies.
Josh Clark is a writer, designer, and developer who helps creative people clear technical hassles to share their ideas with the world. As speaker and consultant, he has helped scores of companies build effective websites and mobile apps. When he's not writing or speaking about clever design and humane software, he's building it. Josh is the creator of Big Medium, friendly software that actually makes it fun to manage a website. He's also the author of Best iPhone Apps and iWork '09: The Missing Manual, both published by O'Reilly. Before the rise of the Web, Josh worked on a slew of national PBS programs at WGBH-TV in Boston. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, hobnobbed with Rockefellers, and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. Now Josh makes words and spins code at his hypertext laboratory globalmoxie.com. He divides his time between Providence, Rhode Island, and Paris, France.
Comments about O'Reilly Media Layout in Pages '09: The Mini Missing Manual:
The book has a detailed Table of Contents and I really appreciate the active links to take the reader to more information or to figures associated with the text. There are plenty of illustrations with detailed captions. There are just a few times when an image is simply not clear enough to be of any value. For example the beautiful description of the "grip" on the ruler that is used to adjust the column width is further illustrated by circling the area in a screen shot. This is so indistinct that the tiny dots are not able to be distinguished (Figure 1-10). A minor point as the description is so clear that the image is not really needed anyway. The layout of the 'book' is good with plenty of tips that stand out clearly from the other text. It was a bonus to find that the first part of the book covers the use of Pages in both word processing and page layout modes. Detailed word processing techniques are covered and where necessary further details describe how to achieve the result when using page layout. The author's style is very easy to read and page layout techniques such as aligning objects to grids, cropping or masking images and selecting fonts are described in way that is easy to understand. This Mini Manual may be mini in size but its content is of sufficient depth that it would satisfy most users wanting to make use of the Page Layout capabilities of Pages. There is something in this book for everyone from the beginner to someone more experienced with using Pages.
