The President's Blog for November 2011

At our November 2nd MacValley Apple Users Group meeting, we will have a presentation of Apple’s Pages 09.

Pages is a showcase App at the new online App store for the Mac. For the almost negligible price of $19.99, the user gets a full-featured writing app that includes a contextual format bar where you can format your text and adjust images. You can also use the bar to choose your fonts, change text size and color, adjust your line spacing and your paragraph alignment, check your spelling, and proofread your document. It takes a few clicks to add headers, footers, footnotes, and bookmarks.

You can save your documents in MS Word format (DOC), along with RTF, PDF, or as plain text. Using Mac OS X Mail, you can export your docs as ePub or PDF files.

And this is neat -- If you want to publish your writing, you can send your ePub document to iBooks via iTunes, and you can self-publish on iBookstore.

Quite a deal for under twenty bucks.

For more info on our upcoming general meeting, to go macvalley.org.

Cristael Bengtson