Converting a Publisher Newsletter to PDF and sending as an attachment - WinXP, Office 2003, Acrobat

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Ian Millward

Hi there,



I send out a small newsletter of about 10 x A4 to about 100 recipients each
month. It works well as a Word doc attachment with few graphics. I want to
raise my game and send it out with more, bigger graphics and have it in
blocks like a web page to increase interest.



I have tried a couple of different ways including sending it as an html page
but it all turned to custard. Because of the wide variety of machines and
browsers, it didn't work very well and about a third of the emails where
bounced back to me by the providers. I suspect because of size or they were
filtered as SPAM.



I am coming round to the idea that sending it as a PDF attachment is the way
to go and I think that making the newsletter in Publisher and converting it
to PDF is probably the easiest way. Before I waste any time or money I would
be grateful for some advice on whether or not it will fly with my current
configuration or if I should need to upgrade my software.



I am running it on a WinXP machine with Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3



I have tried to convert Publisher 2003 into pdf but it isn't very
successful. Also, Sending a Publisher file requires the recipient to have
Publisher installed.



Creating the letter in Word and converting to PDF isn't very great either.
About half of the recipients couldn't read it because it didn't render very
well on their screen.



This isn't rocket science, to quote a phrase, I just can't get my head
around it.



Any advice would be gratefully received.
 
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bj

Ian Millward said:
I am coming round to the idea that sending it as a PDF attachment is the
way to go and I think that making the newsletter in Publisher and
converting it to PDF is probably the easiest way. Before I waste any time
or money I would be grateful for some advice on whether or not it will fly
with my current configuration or if I should need to upgrade my software.

I am running it on a WinXP machine with Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat
8.1.3

I have tried to convert Publisher 2003 into pdf but it isn't very
successful. Also, Sending a Publisher file requires the recipient to have
Publisher installed.

I've used Publisher for years & sent out as PDF files.
I use Acrobat & "print" to Adobe PDF (I've long since forgotten how that got
installed as a printer but it's probably in some help file.)
(I also print-to-pdf from Word, web pages, email, etc. Very handy.)

This worked just fine under XP/Pub2003 (I think I was using Acrobat 7 then)
as well as XP/Pub2007/Acrobat 8. I was using earlier versions from about
2001-2003.

I'm not sure what the difference is between "publish as" vs. "print" is; I
don't remember but I don't think Pub2003 had the option to "publish", or if
it did I never used it -- just kept on doing the "print to Adobe" that had
been working.

Since I'm sending my copy out (by email) to be printed/snail-mailed, I
always do a test-printout from Acrobat, using grayscale -- I want to see
what my readers are going to see. The pdf itself is in color.

Give it a try -- mail it to yourself or a helpful friend -- that certainly
won't cost much!
bj
 
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PhredBear

Many thanks for that,


bj said:
I've used Publisher for years & sent out as PDF files.
I use Acrobat & "print" to Adobe PDF (I've long since forgotten how that
got installed as a printer but it's probably in some help file.)
(I also print-to-pdf from Word, web pages, email, etc. Very handy.)

This worked just fine under XP/Pub2003 (I think I was using Acrobat 7
then) as well as XP/Pub2007/Acrobat 8. I was using earlier versions from
about 2001-2003.

I'm not sure what the difference is between "publish as" vs. "print" is; I
don't remember but I don't think Pub2003 had the option to "publish", or
if it did I never used it -- just kept on doing the "print to Adobe" that
had been working.

Since I'm sending my copy out (by email) to be printed/snail-mailed, I
always do a test-printout from Acrobat, using grayscale -- I want to see
what my readers are going to see. The pdf itself is in color.

Give it a try -- mail it to yourself or a helpful friend -- that certainly
won't cost much!
bj
 

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