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Josh-H
I have been struggling with a dilemma for the last week or so in making up a photographic newsletter for my client base that I can email (a sort of semi periodical).

In effect the problem is one of quality and size. I would like to produce a simple 5 page newsletter with full or near to full page size photographs (say around 6 shots in total) in a file size that I can easily email and therein lies the problem - which hopefully someone can help with.

I have tried making the newsletter in word; but in order to get the photographs to hold their quality the file size needs to be quite large (to big to email) - And PDF size reduction just turns the whole thing to mush.

IS there a suitable solution or am I asking to much? Would In Design be a better choice (would it even help? sort of appears on the outside to be a sledgehammer for a walnut)?

Thanks for any assistance.
TimG
One possible solution is to use something like Issuu (http://issuu.com/). Just upload and send your client base the link.

This way, instead of the client having to download a large attachment, they can view it online.

Larry Berman
Create an HTML e-mail through either Constant Contact or Vertical Response instead of trying to send something through your own ISP or web host.



QUOTE (Josh-H @ Nov 4 2009, 05:22 PM) *
I have been struggling with a dilemma for the last week or so in making up a photographic newsletter for my client base that I can email (a sort of semi periodical).

In effect the problem is one of quality and size. I would like to produce a simple 5 page newsletter with full or near to full page size photographs (say around 6 shots in total) in a file size that I can easily email and therein lies the problem - which hopefully someone can help with.

I have tried making the newsletter in word; but in order to get the photographs to hold their quality the file size needs to be quite large (to big to email) - And PDF size reduction just turns the whole thing to mush.

IS there a suitable solution or am I asking to much? Would In Design be a better choice (would it even help? sort of appears on the outside to be a sledgehammer for a walnut)?

Thanks for any assistance.

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