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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to Pages
- Overview of Pages
- Creating a Document Using the Pages Templates
- Formatting a Document’s Layout and Table of Contents
- Setting Page Orientation and Size
- Setting Page Margins
- Creating Columns
- Varying Column and Page Layouts
- Creating a Document With Left- and Right-Facing Pages
- Adding Headers, Footers, Page Numbers, Footnotes, and Endnotes
- Varying Document Formatting Using Section Breaks
- Adding a Repeated Background Image
- Using a Table of Contents
- Formatting Text and Paragraphs
- Working With Styles
- Working With Graphics andOther Media
- Changing Object Properties
- Creating Tables
- Adding a Table
- Using Table Cells and Borders
- Formatting Tables
- Adding Images or Background Colors
- Formatting Numbers
- Sorting Cells
- Autofilling
- Using Formulas
- A Tour of Using Formulas
- Adding a Quick Formula
- Removing a Formula
- Using the Formula Editor to Add and Edit Formulas
- Using Cell References
- Adding a Formula to Multiple Cells
- Performing Arithmetic Operations
- Using Predefined Functions
- Operators and Functions for Advanced Table Formula Users
- Defining Formulas That Use Operators
- Defining Formulas That Use Functions
- Creating Charts
- Personalizing Documents With Address Book Data
- Printing and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats
- Designing Your Own Document Templates
- Index
128 Chapter 6 Working With Graphics and Other Media
PDF files also provide a great way to move tabular data from Excel or AppleWorks
documents into Pages. If you have extensively formatted tables in Excel or an
AppleWorks spreadsheet that you want to display in your document, you can save the
spreadsheet as a PDF file and then place that PDF file on a page as you would any
other external graphics file.
To convert an Excel or AppleWorks file to a PDF file:
1 In your Excel or AppleWorks spreadsheet, select the table range you want to display in
your document.
2 Choose File > Print.
3 In the Print dialog, choose Save as PDF from the PDF pop-up menu.
4 In the Save dialog, type a name for the PDF file and select a location, then click Save.
To convert a Grab image to a PDF file:
1 Open Grab. It’s in the Applications/Utilities folder.
2 Choose Capture > Selection to select what you want to create an image of.
3 Choose File > Print to save the image as a PDF.
Cropping (Masking) Images
You can crop images without actually changing the image files by masking parts of
them. The mask contains a window that defines the boundaries of the cropped image.
This allows you to import full images but display only part of them within the
document. You can still reposition and resize images that have been masked.
The default mask is a rectangle, which you can resize as required. You can also use a
shape as a mask.
To crop an image using the default (rectangular) mask:
1 Import the file you want to mask. The image can be placed as a fixed object or an
inline object (for more information, see “Fixed Objects Versus Inline Objects” on
page 124).
2 Select the object and choose Format > Mask. A mask appears over the image with a
resizable “window” in the center.