If your local masters club or LMSC issues a newsletter, how do they publish it?
1. Printed on paper & conventionally mailed only.
2. Via the internet or email only.
3. Both internet/email and printed on paper & conventionally mailed.
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Former Member
Perusing the various LMSC and local club web sites I’ve noticed that most clubs that publish on-line, do so by PDF file, including this web site. To those unfamiliar with PDF files, it is a software from www.adobe.com which creates a facsimile of the actual document. I would wager that over 70% of the computers purchased in the last 4 years includes this software, however if you don’t have it, you can download it free from Adobe. What it allows the user to do is view or print! (On there own printer) a virtual exact duplicate of what the newsletter editor intended. So even though the newsletter is not mailed by the US postal service, anyone can print a duplicate of the newsletter on any brand computer printer and read it the old fashion way. Another handy dandy feature of PDF files is the enlargement feature, for those who have a hard time reading the fine print it can magnified about as large as your want too. Finally web publishing allows for color photos and multicolor layouts. I don’t think the average masters club is going to fork out the dollars for 4-color printing. I’ve included an excellent example from Pacific Masters.
www.pacificmasters.org/.../03sepoct.pdf
Perusing the various LMSC and local club web sites I’ve noticed that most clubs that publish on-line, do so by PDF file, including this web site. To those unfamiliar with PDF files, it is a software from www.adobe.com which creates a facsimile of the actual document. I would wager that over 70% of the computers purchased in the last 4 years includes this software, however if you don’t have it, you can download it free from Adobe. What it allows the user to do is view or print! (On there own printer) a virtual exact duplicate of what the newsletter editor intended. So even though the newsletter is not mailed by the US postal service, anyone can print a duplicate of the newsletter on any brand computer printer and read it the old fashion way. Another handy dandy feature of PDF files is the enlargement feature, for those who have a hard time reading the fine print it can magnified about as large as your want too. Finally web publishing allows for color photos and multicolor layouts. I don’t think the average masters club is going to fork out the dollars for 4-color printing. I’ve included an excellent example from Pacific Masters.
www.pacificmasters.org/.../03sepoct.pdf
