[iBook] OPENING, WORD, XL, AND OTHER MICROSOFT FILES ALSO CREATING PDF FILES ON iBook

[Sean Weijand]

for autocad and dxf Vectorworks is the only app. to own. It kicks butt 
on autocad. you will wonder why anyone in the engineering/drafting 
world uses anything else.



On 3-Mar-05, at 7:24 PM, Larry Kollar wrote:

>
> John Finnegan wrote:
>
>> I  am planning to buy an new 1.33GHz ibook with 14.1 inch display.
>>
>> I will want to be able to open and read the following type of files.
>>
>> Word, Xl, PDF and Autocad or DXF files. Also would like to create PDF 
>> files.
>>
>> Will the ibook have software to do the above. If not, what software 
>> will I
>> need.
>
> AppleWorks opens *some* Word and Excel files (I assume by "XL" you 
> mean Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet program). If you're familiar with 
> Unix, you can get a port of OpenOffice that can read most Office files 
> (in some cases, I found it reads some Word files better than Word). 
> You can also buy Microsoft Office for OSX.
>
> PDF is much easier, Apple's Preview program and Adobe Reader both come 
> with new Macs and both read PDFs. Both AppleWorks and Microsoft Office 
> can generate PDFs from the Print dialog.
>
> DXF might be simple enough -- see if 
> http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Graphics/DigiCad-3D.shtml would work for 
> you; it's supposed to be able to read & write DXF.
> --
> Larry Kollar    k  o  l  l  a  r  @  a  l  l  t  e  l  .  n  e  t
> "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
> -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc 
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