Are Mac OS 10.4’s iCal and Address Book Hipster PDA Compatible?
While looking at Apple’s Mac OS 10.4 site, I found the following on the bottom of the Address Book page leading me to wonder if both Address Book.app and iCal are going to have something special for paper-based PDAs.
Going out of town or away from your Mac? Address Book has you covered. Now you can print out a handy, pocket-size book and take your contacts with you anywhere.
And the following on the bottom of the iCal page
Perfectly Printed
Take a hard copy of your day’s busy schedule along with you, thanks to new iCal printing options. Print by day, week or month or using the new list layout which displays your events and To Dos in a compact, chronological list, ideal for at-a-glance reference. iCal supports both color and black-and-white printing so you can print multiple calendars on any printer you use at home or at work.
Will these features work nicely with our much beloved Hipster PDAs? If anyone has an early copy of Tiger, please let us know. (For the record, if you do admit you got your copy of Tiger before me, I will secretly loathe you, but I’ll get over it eventually.)
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I’ve got Tiger.
For both Address Book and iCal, you can specify the paper size from about a dozen options:
US Letter
US Legal
A4
A5
ROC 16K
JB5
B5
#10 Envelope
DL Envelope
Choukei 3 Envelope (?)
Tabloid
A3
Tabloid Extra
Super B/A3
I’m guessing one of these is close to Hipster 3×5 standards. Anyway, either of the apps will scale the output to fit the page size.
What’s interesting is that in the course of investigating this very critical issue, I came across 2 new features of Tiger that made me say ‘cool’ out loud:
Apple + Shift + 4 now outputs PNG instead of PDF
and
Address Book now supports Exchange synchronization
So there you go - I learned a lot just by avoiding work.
can you give me a URL for dimensions of the unusual paper sizes such as ROC 16K.
Thanks