Hi everyone ! Question about a magazine in Pages for Printing in press printing

Hello all Pages users !,
I am really strugling with trying to learn, comprehend and use InDesign CS5 for a future free give-away 60 or 62 pages magazine.
I do understand and manage quite well apple 's PAGES for normal regular brochures and flyers use.
I truly need some advices regarding my project, as while being at ease with the use of Pages, there are some specific points I need
to make sure will work out when finally sending a pre-press and final PDF to my printer's house.
1/ How to set the necessary margins, bleed, trim, gutter and middle flat squre binding spin ?
2/ Will there be problems if I import pre-vectorized images/texts with transparent background (i.e. in PNG format)
3/ Should I only import CMYK photos from my photoshop instead of RGB ?
4/ Is there a specific setting for all the facing pages (let/right) and numbering them ?
5/ Once done, can I export the final PDF file to any Abode reliable PDF handler to secure and ensure all settings, colors and trim areas
will be perfect for press printing, and what would you guys kindly recommend ?
I know these are various and complicated questions and issues, but before venturing into PAges for my magazine set up, layout and
complete work, I would preferably ensure that it is possible to get a correct nice color magazine done in Pages instead of venturing
in the Highly professional very complicated inDesign software .
Thaks a milion in advance for all your advices, tipds and experience !
Awaiting your feddback guys !
Gratitude to all souls of good will for this help outcry ! ;-)
magazinedesign

The person as always best able to answer your questions is the printer who will be printing your magazine.
They may be an exception but I doubt they will be happy with you doing it in Pages.
Pages is designed for output to your desktop printer. There are a string of issues to do with preparing a print job for commercial printing that Pages is either ill-equiped or plain just unable to manage.
If you say you are struggling with Indesign which is designed to manage all aspects of commercial printing, what makes you think that choosing a program that isn't will improve matters?
1. Pages does not have crops, bleeds or slugs. You can however manually construct these yourself with sufficient work.
2. Pages has no tools to help you manage your output, ensure that black only text/objects are black only, that resolution is high enough, that its unique objects such as frames pass through the printer's RIP correctly.
3. By default Pages produces exceptionally low resolution transparency (only 72dpi) for shadows, reflections, 3d graphs, frames and transparency overlaying bitmaps in exported pdfs.
4. Ask your printer whether he can fix trapping in his RIP because Pages doesn't.
5. You can DL and install certain print workflows that will correct some of these but will still not get correct pdf-X3 that printers require.
6. You can not bypass output through Apple's problematic print engine, even though fruhulda's link thinks he has.
7. OSX can not make spot color objects, although spot color already in pdf objects brought into Pages should (not guarranteed) be honored.
8. I don't know what you mean by pre-vectorized images because png is rgb bitmap only and does not contain vectors nor text. I think you might mean pre-rasterised, not a good idea.
9. You will assume command of the Good Ship Pages and all who sail in her, the printer will probably hand all responsibility for output to you. You get to pay no matter what happens. Good luck.
In summary, if you are uncomfortable with and don't know how to handle pre-press settings and requirements, I suggest you do not, and instead hand the job over to a professional to produce and manage for you.
Finding out that you do not have what it takes to print commercially, can be a very expensive and salutory experience. Printers will find it hard to say no to you despite their apprehension, but then it will be your baby.
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