Which Macintosh application can do this??

[gdshepp]

I'm pretty new to Mac, but I've been asked to help produce a document for printing specifically from a Macintosh OS9.x machine which will contain a mixture of A4 and A3 pages so that when they are printed, our digital copier/printer will select the paper to suit the page automatically. (the document can then be finished ie duplexed/stapled by the machine)

I have succesfully carried out this task from a Windows workstation using MS Word and creating sections where the page sizes change.

I don't have MS Word on our Mac (only DTP software - Quark, Indesign, Acrobat) and it would appear that the page set up in each of these application can only be set once (ie no sections so all pages are either A4 OR A3)

Can anyone suggest an application that could be used for my document preparation?

Does MS Word for the Mac have the ability to set up sections with differing page sizes??

Over to you......and thanks in advance

 

[maxformed]

Macromedia Freehand allows different sized pages within the same document. I've used it many times.

Max

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[gdshepp]

Max

many thanks for the reply, I've now got a 30 day trial version of Freehand MX.

At first glance I can see how you can create the "mixed original size" document, but is it still not the case that the "page set up " sets up the size for the whole document at that stage.

In other words, although I can create a document that contains A3 and A4 pages, I cannot run the whole document out (pages 1 -12 for instance containing some A4 and the rest A3) and get the output size to vary so that the printer I have switches paper trays to suit.

(as I said before Microsoft Word on PC allows for this through setting document "sections" each of which can be set with it's own independent "page set up". Im still wondering if the Mac version allows for this.)

it's a cracker!

May be I should lokk under the Freehand Forum?

anyway, thanks for you suggestion and your response. it's much appreciated!

Gordon

 

[ObviousTroll]

I'm pretty sure you want to look at Office X if you want feature parity with Word. I don't think Appleworks offers this ability.