a question for you experienced blog'rs

[jerrykr]

hoping that you can offer a bit of advice from your experience??

My wife is doing a monthly newsletter for her dept. at work. it is a typical printed paper newsletter, with text and jpg pictures. One "problem" is that although we produce the newsletter in color, her dept. makes B&W copies for distribution on the office copier. Not too bad, but color would be better, especially on the rather small jpg pictures. A color copier is just not in the budget.

I have been putting it together for her using MS Publisher. Three column, pics, info boxes, etc., typical newsletter layout.

I have been playing around with WordPress free blog, and would like to put the entire newsletter up as a single post each month, then pass on the URL to her co-workers where they could read the newsletter online and in color.

I'm wondering if there's a way to grab the newsletter as a single object and past it into a post on the blog???

I've tried piece-mealing each "article" into seperate posts on the blog, but frankly it's worse than re-building the newsletter all over again (a lot of time and work), and the "flow" of the individual article posts is not to my liking.

I was thinking of converting the Publisher document into a PDF file and posting that object into WordPress. WordPress says that it accepts PDF documents.

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Is there a better way?

Almost zero blog experience here, but the basics look pretty easy.

Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

-=- Jerry -=-
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[janetg]

i can't say for sure it won't work, but it sounds more likely wordpress will "link" up a pdf file. if that's all you want to do - why don't you just publish to pdf and upload the pdf to a place you can link it to?

or find a three columb layout that works - and use that.

[Gordon]

From what you are describing, making the PDF and sharing the link is likely to be the best way to go (if you want to keep your layout & sanity)

Then just post a blog article that maybe hits the highlights of the newsletter and provides a link.

That's what we do with our internal company newsletter - the PDF is there with the content and an email goes around with the highlight items in the newsletter and a link to the full thing.

[jerrykr]

wow, that was fast, and thank you both very much.

I had not thought about the post with link idea.

Is there a free hosting site where I could locate the PDF? I probably should be doing a bit of Googling on this myself, and will, but you may know of a free one to recommend?

-=- Jerry -=-
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[David Whatley]

My space has a free blog and I use blogspot.com

[jerrykr]

'ya know... leave it to the Jakestir to come up with a simple and elegant solution.

he sez, just get an email group set up at her work, and email the PDF file to everyone in the dept. she could probably stop printing the paper version and save a few trees.

DOH, now why didn't i think of that????

thanks Jake, you 'da man!

I think I'll still look into the blog thing, as people could leave responses online that everyone could see. plus, now I just want to do it, to know how.

pbase won't host a PDF file (except for their own magazine).

I found a number of free file hosting sites, so might go with the post/link idea if necessary.

thanks,

-=- Jerry -=-
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