Ramon Pedrosa wrote:
> Erik Richard Sørensen writes:
>> Then do all the formattings in AppleWorks
>
> Dear Eric. Thank you for every detail in your post. I followed every step
> until I got the document in A3 finally. But what a prospect to redo over
> 700 pages of formatting in AppleWorks!
Yes, Ramon, I know this may be hard working, but it is the only way to
do it, when/if you still use the NisusWriter 6,5.
The best way for you will absoulutely be to buy NisusWriter Pro 1,4.x if
still available (or ver. 2.0, see below). NWP 1.4.x will work fully with
any customized paper size in OS X 10.4.11. - And hereto you get several
new and very usable features like a fully Windows compatible RTF (no
loss of formatting in MS Office 2003 for Windows) including a fully
compatible table feature and with direct saving into PDF.
NWP also works with graphics and table in the same RTF file, and to use
such a file without any loss on MSO2003 Win, just rename the suffix from
'.rtf' to '.doc' and now any Windows user will be able to open the
document withou having to 're-format' anything. I use this method myself
when sending large and complicated documents to Windows users...
I've just tested if the paper size will work in my copy of NWP 1.4 on OS
X 10.4.11 and yes, it is possible to define a customized paper size to a
size with up to two decimals - both in inches and centimeters.
I've just tried it with various sizes in large poster sizes up to
170x95cm and down to 35x70cm. /All/ sizes are registered and usable in
NWP 1.4.x and with margins down to 0,42cm, which is the margin for NWP -
and this without any kind of warning. This means you for example can put
a large photo with added text into a NWP document, save it directly into
PDF, put it on an USB stick and take it to a print store to be printed
on an over-size printer - and therefore of course also can send such a
PDF file to a publisher - ready for use with a photo offset pre-press
plotter etc..
If/when you buy NWP 1.4.x you only need to open the original NW classic
file, choose 'Select All' + 'Copy' and then paste it into an empty NWP
document with your specific wanted size. Any formatting should be as the
original, which of course will reduce the checking time of the new
document to a minimum.
If I remember right there are also methods to import classic NW files
into NWP, but I have forgotten how to, - and also if I remember right
there may be some problems with some formattings. - Copy&paste doesnot
give these problems...
I also use a non-standard document size in a large database which I've
made as a table, because it's easier to work with than making it in
Filemaker Pro. - I'm a camera collector and have hundreds of items, so
when I find a possible new item, I can just look into the database and
use document scrolling to see if I already have this item. - My paper
size is near US Legal, but according to the amount of columns and column
sizes I have to have a broader 'landscape' than the US Legal size.
You can even use the NisusWriter Pro 2.0 in 10.4.11. You can download a
free 15-day full working trial here... Select "For Mac OS X 10.4.11 -
10.6.5" which is the ver. 2.0.2 and the latest that will work with 10.4.11.
<http://nisus.com/pro/download.php>
You can also read more information about NWP here:
<http://nisus.com/pro/>
I'll strongly recommend you to upgrade to NisusWriter Pro, because it is
so much more enhanced and faster working with hudge documents -
especially with heavy formattings like tables and graphics.....
cheers, Erik Richard
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