Personally I prefer plain text emails.... and certainly would not want a pdf attachment arriving in my in box, it would (and they do) get deleted unread!, along with the word documents that some marketing geniuses advise their clients to send out with 'marketing' emails.
Seriously though jac, you should sit down with your client and ask him to seriously think about the nature of his mailing list clients. 1. Would many of them prefer plain text 2.Should there be an opt in for html email 3.How many are corporates or work for corporates who have firewalls installed which not only reject html email but will NOT allow attachments 4.Has the client thought about the option of doing a web page [ html or pdf available for download on line] and simply emailing the fact of the update(s). Michael Ensor www.WellingtonLive.co.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: jac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:21 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] PDF file size : Hi everyone, : I have a client who wants to send out a newsletter by email to his mailing : list, no problem there.... now this is where it gets strange - he spoke to a : guy who does marketing and he told my client that because a lot of people : don't want HTML emails, the better option is to do a PDF newsletter and send : it as an attachment (!?). How can this be?? Did I miss something here? So : anyway, off I went and create the newsletter in PDF and the 1 page with 1 : small image & text (A4 size) is weighing in at 495Kb. Now, the large file : size maybe down to me cause Distiller wouldn't work (couldn't find the : driver or something) so I created it in Illustrator. How can I get the file : size smaller & are PDFs always on the heavy size? : : Another Q: can't I just open Acrobat (not the reader) and create a PDF there : or do you always have to create it in another programme like Word and then : convert it to a PDF? : : kinda confused...... : : jac. : : ps... thanks : : : : ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ : To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: : http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub : : ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ : : You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% : : ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
