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I’ve noticed a reasonable number of Macintosh users who, when giving a presentation, use Powerpoint rather than Apple’s Keynote. Furthemore, there is another group (with some overlap) who use Firefox(not even the more Mac-like Camino). Obviously, these are matters of personal preference – but I wonder how many Mac users use Firefox because they have [...]
Tags: apple, unix — .So, this week I made a poster for the Tex-Mex 9 conference in San Antonio, which I’m off to tomorrow. My tool of choice, Apple’s new Pages program, part of iWork which also includes Keynote. In the past, I had tried to use Powerpoint. The problem with Powerpoint for posters is twofold. One, powerpoint is [...]
Tags: apple, keynote, pages, PDF, posters, powerpoint — .Ok, a little late but as promised here is a poster template for Apple’s Pages. This is by far the best program for making scientific posters that I’ve seen. Support for vector graphics, floating and in-line images, easy columns. Very nice. Certainly no need to use Powerpoint (or even Keynote for that matter) anymore, please. [...]
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