Jim, MS Word is good for what it does but certainly has its limitations for when it comes to things that need 'publishing'. MS Publisher is not a panacea for this but it goes a long way especially as it also is used by many professional print shops. Depending on how complex the Publisher document is determines how complex the pdf production is for me. usually the most I have to do is rearrange pages. MS Word is not good for documents which need 'page' layouts, Publisher is pretty good for that. there are also other packages such as Pagemaker but Publisher was cost effective for us as some of us volunteers already had copies of it because we had the MS Office Professional/Premier editions. I use FrontPage for the web. Most of Office XP integrates pretty well so thats the path we went.
Baron -----Original Message----- From: James R. Frysinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 05 April, 2002 08:23 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:19248] RE: electronic (pdf) newsletter Hmmmm. I wonder if doing all the layup in MS Publisher is what makes it simple for you, Baron. I don't know what is used for Metric Today. If they use something similar, perhaps the problem is not as severe as I have experienced. The documents I've worked with evolved with the various and succeeding versions of MS Word. Thus they have what I like to call a lot of "scar tissue". Formatting gets knocked awry, special characters don't translate, old formatting commands cause strange effects, etc. Jim "Carter, Baron" wrote: > > I'm in an organization, of which I am webmaster and treasurer, in which we > have a paper version and an electronic version. The paper version is > prepared, be the editor, using MS Publisher. I convert this to pdf format. > The paper version has been retained for non-members, government officials > etc the same as Jim has pointed out below. We now rarely mail out to > members and have saved a lot of money because of this. > > Baron Carter > > -----Original Message----- > From: James R. Frysinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 04 April, 2002 18:57 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Cc: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:19235] RE: Back to Metric? > > As the webmaster for two standards committees, I can vouchsafe that > producing electronic versions of paper documents, such as Metric Today, > is not a trivial matter. Then there's the maintenance of the electronic > membership file, etc. Also, spare copies of Metric Today are often given > to industry leaders, government officials, people asking for a sample > copy, and so forth. Adding an electronic version without eliminating the > paper version would save no time or effort; instead it would add > considerably to those. > > Jim > > kilopascal wrote: > > > > 2002-04-04 > > > > You can still make it available to those who pay dues. They can download > it > > in doc or pdf format via a password. A password available only to those > > that are paid members. Or you can set it up to be emailed to dues paying > > members. This way everybody gets it in a timely manner and there is no > > postage charges to the USMA. Plus, if the newsletter can be done entirely > > electronically, there would be no printing charges. That would be a cost > > savings and maybe a savings in officers time spent on handling the > > newsletters. No? > > > > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Hillger, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, 2002-04-04 17:28 > > Subject: [USMA:19230] RE: Back to Metric? > > > > Ezra and others: > > > > For those of you who don't receive Metric Today, the cover story for the > > last issue was about labeling. It would be nice if we could do an > > electronic newsletter and make it available to all, but then who would > > pay dues? You are missing out if you don't get the newsletter.... > > -- > Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" > James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ > 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789 -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
