Emailing Publisher Creations

[Gingerspot]

I generate a monthly newsletter that is emailed to about 90 folks who in turn
forward it to their employees. The first receoients get it just like it is
supposed to look, but the second group who get the forwarded copy get it it
all jumbled up. Is there a way to preserve the formatting when forwarding?

 

[John G]

Do you email it as an attachment or as part of the message?

It should be a PDF attachment for best results.

 

[Gingerspot]

It is the message. My boss likes the "wow" factor when you open the email.
I've tried converting the publications to PDFs, but they have pages and my
boss doesn't like that.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can arrange your newsletter for a long page, just click custom and make it
as long as you like. When is time to print, File, print, select your PDF
printer, properties, highlight Adobe PDF page Size, click add, put the
measurements into this dialogue and give it a name.

 

[Gingerspot]

That still doesn't answer the orginal question. How can you forward a
publication as a message and NOT as an attachment without it becoming
fragmeted.

 

[Gingerspot]

That still doesn't answer the orginal question of how to forward a
publication that is the message NOT an attachment without it becoming
fragmented.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I was just giving you a way to send a PDF without it being *pages*.

Most folks do not have HTML emails enabled. If you ask all your recipients to
enable HTML then the newsletters will not be as fragmented.


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[DavidF]

I don't think it is realistic to expect an html formatted email to survive
forwarding. Think about all the jokes and stuff you and your friends forward
to each other. How often do they get "fragmented".

You can send as a message as a single picture instead of html, but even that
will require that the recipient have their email client set to show
pictures, and not all do. Furthermore the file size will be quite large
which won't be appreciated by those who have dial-up connections. If you
want to try that go to Tools > Options > Web tab and under Email options
check "Send entire publication as a JPEG...".

The only sure fire way of being able to forward your message without it
being fragmented is to convert it to PDF and attach it.

DavidF