Digital+Newsletter

HOW TO CREATE A NEWSLETTER IN iWORK/PAGES

Go to: Pages

Choose: Newsletters

Choose: Club Newsletter

To Add Additional Pages To The Newsletter: • Click on Pages icon (upper left side) • A sample of page types will drop down • Click on a page to add it (blank page, page w/photo box, page w/text box)

To Modify Text and Photo Boxes: • Double click inside the existing boxes

To Create A Media Place Holder: or • Click on Shape icon (top left) • Choose a shape from the drop down menu • Position/modify the shape box on the page • Go to Media icon (top right) • Select Photo (and choose correct sub group) • Drag and drop the chosen photo from iPhoto (or something from desktop) • Use Edit Mask to center photo • Go to Inspector (top right) • Choose “object causes to wrap”
 * Choose something that is already available and modify it**

To Change Photos: • Drag and drop a new photo into the place holder To Add A Text Box: • Click in area that you want to place the box • Click on the Text Box icon (top left) • Choose a shape from the drop down menu • Modify and position your text box

To Change Color Fill: • Click on the area that you want to color • Click on Inspector icon (top right) • Click in the Color Fill box (a color menu will appear) • Choose a color • Modify the color with the opacity slider at the bottom of the menu

To Send The Newsletter As A Smaller PDF File: My newsletters were occasionally as large as 13MB. Since the standard MAXIMUM email attachment should be less than 10MB, many parents were unable to receive it. There are a few ways to get around this. You can use Adobe Acrobat Professional (which is available at school) to reduce the file size or use the following steps to also reduce the file size by changing the image quality. I have found that, for newsletter purposes, changing the image quality to either Good or Better did not substantially impact the photo.
 * Newsletters that contain several photos will cause a size problem.

• Go to File>Export>PDF>Image Quality • The default is usually Best • Choose either Better or Good By using this method, I was able to change a newsletter that was 13MB in Best to 668KB in Better and 244KB in Good.

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