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Hey all, this is a non-car related question.

Our newsletter guy lives waaaay out of town and has decided to give up on producing our club newsletter. Being a computer guy (ha!) they thought I would be able to help out or even take his place.

He is currently sending the files via email to a local memeber who has a really nice printer, but he is sending them as .pdf files. They come out pretty big and hard to manipulate.

What are other clubs using to publish their newsletters? Anyone have any problems with MS Word? What other programs would you try? If I produce it (there is printer's ink in my blood, Greatgandpa owned several newspapers in Oklahoma in the teens and Twenties and Grandpa was a typesetter), I will still be sending it via email to the guy who will ultimately print it.

Any suggestions?
 
Aloha,

I'm not the newsletter guy, so I can't address software and formating issues.

However, I'm the treasurer of The British Car Club of Hawaii. We used to print and mail the newsletter monthly and it was by far one of the club's greatest expenses. We now distribute the newsletter via e-mail to almost all of our membership. There are about four or five members who do not have e-mail so we mail it to them. Since you will be constructing it by computer and e-mail, why not distribute it via e-mail?
 
MS word is all you need to lay out the newsletter for printing. If you were going to distribute the newsletter by e-mail PDF would be my preference. Unlike Word, PDF is platform independent.
 
my tuppeny worth...

if you are comfortable using msword (very powerful, and dead easy for cut & paste from others emails) then go ahead. unfortunately word files tend to be on the large side if you are using lots of formatting and pictures and not really email friendly. if you also have the full acrobat program print your finished word document to the acrobat printer, pdf file should be created with all the original word formatting and no loss in picture resolution...and the pdf file should be a fraction of the size of the original word file and easy to attach to email.

all sounds a bit hi-tech for triumph owners...did they have 'puters when they built even the latest triumph models...I left grammar school in the UK in 1980 and we were lucky if we had a brick sized calculator...what ever happened to log tables ??
 
How about Microsoft Publisher, then convert to pdf after all ready for emailing?
 
Hey Greenie...

You gonna show up at Triumph Day in Brookline on the 29th?
 
My newsletter experience is all on the editorial side, I have not been the publisher... but as I recall we use a Corel package. The results are very nice, they can be seen here (note, dial-up users probably shouldn't bother):

https://tucsonbritish.com/Octagon.aspx

As you can see, we post the newsletter to the club website as a pdf and send an email w/link advising members that it's out there. Those w/o internet access or with a slow connection (e.g. me) get it on paper.

Only part I don't like is the name of the newsletter (our club began life as an MG 'T' Register.
 
Brosky said:
Hey Greenie...

You gonna show up at Triumph Day in Brookline on the 29th?
Click to expand...

- yep...planning on going with the tr6 and possibly the spit

- met your good friend Erik from HMS at the Father's day show over in Newport/Portsmouth...what a great event that was...location overlooking Narragansett Bay was great, weather was superb, and the "variety" of cars was fantastic. I don't think I've ever seen so much chrome in one place at the same time. Me and the Mrs had a blast.
 
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