Re: Newsletter software suggestions


"B--" <rollandbet@thotmail(dot).com> wrote in message
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>>> I'm writing some small stuff for a non-profit org. I have MS Word and
>>> an app that converts Word to PDF. We want to distribute from the web
>>> via PDF and mail a few to those without a computer.
>>>
>>> MS Word does not seem to be newsletter friendly, nor am I sure the pdf
>>> converter would work as expected for a newsletter. Any suggestions on a
>>> quality newsletter application that I can covert to pdf and possible
>>> html?
>>>
>>> TIA!
>>
>> Open up MS Word. Go to Format and select Columns. Select the number of
>> columns you want on the newsletter. If pictures are giving you problems,
>> you can resize pictures to fit in the columns or you can first type in
>> all the text, add the pictures where you want and then format the columns
>> around the pictures. Word will then format around the pictures.*
>>
>
> Word is definitely sub-par for such items, but I have had to use it in the
> past to do some fairly major lay-out projects. Pictures inserted directly
> are sizable, but not dragable. You can however, make them dragable by
> first putting them in a text box. The Drawing toolbar functions,
> including text box, is also useful for call-outs and isolated and/or
> dragable sections of text. Tables can also be useful for keeping left and
> right "column" items together, but they have their own grouping problems,
> especially in regards to what will be bumped from one page to another, and
> should be used cautiously. You can go from single to double to more than
> double columns by using section breaks, but Word has a nasty habit of
> arbitrarily changing non-page end sections breaks to page end section
> breaks which is very annoying. Double-clicking right on a section break
> can bring up it characteristics so you can change it back, but sometimes
> you have to do this so often you want to find whomever wrote the program
> and break them.
>
>
>
> Personally, I agree with Slyvia, Pagemaker is the way to go for
> newsletters. But I've never tried InDesign, which seems to be the most
> popular program at work these days.
>
>
> Beth

Well, if you say so. I'll admit, when we evaluated programs back in the
mid-90's, PageMaker was the leader and MS was trying to catch up with
Publisher. We just didn't have the time, nor the inclination specialize
because there were just too many people involved, trying to "publish" news
letters, memos, action notes, ......all the typical BS needed to keep a
large bureaucracy functioning.

However, in our defense, we were developing WEB pages like crazy, and when
we figured out that we could use word formatted documents, (which everyone
was using anyway), directly into FrontPage, that pretty much sealed the
deal. I'm sure, everyone can drag and drop now, but back then, that wasn't
necessarily so, especially with some of the proprietary formats. Whatever
else you can say about MS programs, they have always played well, together.

I've never had a problem that couldn't be solved by using tables to control
placement, but again, it wasn't some slick magazine we were trying to get
out. Our newsletters were pretty basic.

If PageMaker is better, it wouldn't be the first time that a MS program
dominated by sheer number of installations.




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