Some notes for a client with a new MacBook Air. She wanted to create a Christmas letter with photos and colored text. She was amazed at what could be done with a few keystrokes and mouse clicks in Pages that she already had installed. I did learn that Pages has a cool reduce file size option to shrink large graphics. Works very well. In addition to helping her learn to create rich documents, I taught her how to export her creations to a PDF document for sharing via email, how to attach files using Mac Mail, and how to backup photos to a CD in iPhoto. We worked at a pretty fast pace, so my writing wasn’t at my best, but I made sure all the steps were included.
Here are the notes I created for her:
start new document by choosing what size
and orientation
add photos by clicking media button
double click events
double-click the event containing your photo
click and drag the photo to your document
click once on the photo and you can drag it around your document
use the clear boxes on the corners of the photo to resize
use test box tool to create boxes that constrain text allowing you to move around the page
when finished with your document, we need to save in an e-mailable format. click File, reduce file size
click file, export from menus
select pdf
click Next
type a New name for the document
click export
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