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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.
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.