If it's text only, there is no reason to convert to HTML, just send it as
an email message. I receive several newsletters of this type. If you
include photos and graphics, then you want to make sure they are suitably
compressed (as GIFs or JPGs), since they will have to be included along
with the HTML document. This can potentially be a problem since some
email clients have difficulty with multiple attachments (I should also
mention that you need to be very strict about file naming conventions,
since the files will actually be running on the client's system, which
could be PC, Mac, UNIX, or anything). Another possibility is to convert
the entire document to Acrobat (PDF) format, which retains layout, type
fonts, graphics, and pagination. If you have been producing a
professionally printed newsletter, this is a simple step, although it
requires relatively costly software ($300); but the reader is free and
readily available. Again, care needs to be taken to keep the file size
small enough for convenient transmission. I have encountered documents of
this type that were incredibly slow to display due to poor font and
compression choices by the authors.
Dan Ray had this to say:
>One of our club members (Louisville British Sports Car Club) had the idea of
>producing the newsletter electronically to save on printing and mailing
>costs.
>My first inclination is to just convert the print version to HTML (for
>compatibility purposes) and send it out as an email attachment to those
>with computers. It's a bit of extra work, but if we get enough members to
>"subscribe", then the savings may be worth it.
>Any ideas?
>TIA
>
>Dan
>73 B
>
>[Some of the folks on the newsletters@autox.team.net list do this. You may
>wish to subscribe to that, or check out the archives at http://listquest.com
>under the hobbies section. mjb.]
>
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