Newsletter dilemma; Help

[Johnathon Aaron Steel]

I am creating a newsletter in MS Publisher 2003 and I want to be able
to insert it in an email so everyone can view it even if they don't
have MS Publisher. Now here's the kicker. I also have urls/hotlinks I
want to have accessed from the newsletter.

I have tried converting it to an Acrobat 7.0 file but I am unable to
convert it to something user friendly that I can insert into the email
body so people can just click links and off they go.

Any suggestions?

Thanx JAS

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Johnathon Aaron Steel ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| I am creating a newsletter in MS Publisher 2003 and I want to be able
|| to insert it in an email so everyone can view it even if they don't
|| have MS Publisher. Now here's the kicker. I also have urls/hotlinks I
|| want to have accessed from the newsletter.
||
|| I have tried converting it to an Acrobat 7.0 file but I am unable to
|| convert it to something user friendly that I can insert into the
|| email body so people can just click links and off they go.

Publisher will not allow you to do what you want. Your "newsletter" would
have to be a single page.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Chuck Davis]

I am creating a newsletter in MS Publisher 2003 and I want to be able
to insert it in an email so everyone can view it even if they don't
have MS Publisher. Now here's the kicker. I also have urls/hotlinks I
want to have accessed from the newsletter.

I have tried converting it to an Acrobat 7.0 file but I am unable to
convert it to something user friendly that I can insert into the email
body so people can just click links and off they go.

Any suggestions?

Thanx JAS

Johnathon,

If you are talking about Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) creating a PDF, then
you can indeed create hotlinks in a PDF. A PDF can only be attached to an
e-mail message. I use Publisher to create a monthly newsletter, then create
the PFD. Prior to distribution, I add links in the table of contents to each
article in the 25 to 35 page documents. I also add links for each "Continued
on page x" & "Continued from page x" entry. All URLs in the document are
also active links.

Note that a PDF is a much smaller document than the Publisher document from
which it was created. Every one with the Adobe Reader can read it.

To see the final effect, see our March issue at:
http://www.myscacc.org/Newsletters/0503News.pdf

 

[Johnathon Aaron Steel]

I am trying to make it so it just is placed in the body of the email
so it can be read without any special programs needed such as
pdf/word/publiusher. LOVE your newsletter BTW.

JAS