Editors,
Another program worth looking at is MS Publisher which I have been using
successfully for the past 4 years and like it as I can import MS Word
documents into it almost seamlessly and export it in HTML format for
posting to the BATANS web site. I imagine all the other programs will do
this as well.
I also keep the members information (150+ addresses, etc.) on another MS
program, Outlook which makes a really neat membership directory when I
print it on my HP 890C DeskJet printer. It prints both sides of the 8.5 X
11 paper and when the sheets are cut in half horizontally, place the top
pages on top of the bottom half and all the pages are numbered correctly
and all I have to do is place two staples on the vertical fold line and it
is complete. The size of the finished booklet is 1/4 the size of an 8.5 X
11 sheet of paper = 4.25" X 5.5" - a handy pocket size. Everyone thinks I'm
a genius! (don't tell them how easy it is)
Later,
Bob
At 01:11 PM 5/6/99 -0500, Andrew R. Lindberg wrote:
>FWIW, I do the newsletter for the Minnesota Triumphs, "Triumphs &
>Tribulations". I think PageMaker is much easier to use than Word if you
>want to do much of anything in the way of layout. We recently upgraded to
>PageMaker 6.5 and now I just convert the PageMaker file to PDF, put it on a
>zip disk (it runs maybe 50 MB), take it down to Kinko's and they print
>directly from the PDF file. No copying. Same cost as copying. The final
>product comes out at about 600 dpi, and you can actually tell what's in the
>images you've inserted. That wasn't always the case when we had the
>newsletter copied.
>
>Andy Lindberg
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
>To: Paul Heuer <paul.heuer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
>Cc: newsletters@autox.team.net <newsletters@autox.team.net>
>Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:29 AM
>Subject: Re: Newsletter Layout?
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Speaking for my own club newsletter, The New England Triumph, Pagemaker is
>>used. There's a _lot_ of setup work, but once you get everything
>>"defined", things go together pretty quickly.
>>
>>FWIW, it used to take something like 20 hours per month to assemble,
>>scan, spell check, grammar check, print draft, proof, edit/repair and
>>re-print. Now I average about 10 hours per month, more or less.
>>
>>I achieved the reduction in time spent by investing a bit of time
>>creating some style sheets and that sort of thing. Pays big dividends in
>>the long run.
>>
>>There are other ways to do this, several of the newsletters that I see
>>monthly appear to be done in Word or some other word processor. There's
>>no problem with using those tools, but a program like Pagemaker or Quark
>>will give you almost total control over layout.
>>
>>And, as a by the way, I'm using ancient hardware/software... Pagemaker
>>4.2 and a Mac CI... basically stuff that is more than 5 years old. But it
>>works!
>>
>>rml
>>Editor, the New England Triumph
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