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Sending MS Publisher newsletter via bulletin?

Discussion in 'General' started by Alan Brown on Aug 30, 2024.

  1. Alan Brown

    By:Alan Brown-  Aug 30, 2024
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    Over the past 25 years, I have created newsletters for several organizations using MS Publisher. I am having a hard time adapting to the ClubRunner bulletin system -- I feel very straitjacketed by the templates and the choice of fonts is underwhelming. Is there any way of dropping an MS Publisher file onto a blank page, or failing that of dropping a PDF or JPG of the Publisher page onto a blank page?
     
  2. Zach

    By:Zach-  Sep 3, 2024
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    Hello Alton,


    Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and look towards finding a way forward with ClubRunner.


    Its important to remember that some of the design choices in the Bulletin designer are intentional to ensure that we can deliver the content as closely as to how it shows in the designer. Some examples are that not all fonts are available on all systems, and in some cases within the email client itself. This is part of the reason we show only a limited set of fonts for the website and bulletin designer, to help ensure that they show up the same way they’re presented. HTML itself is quite limited because we typically delivering these emails to clients, and email clients are not the same as the latest and greatest browsers.

    If you’ve created something like a PDF externally to ClubRunner, you would be able to add that as a download or document file to allow it to be sent. You could also capture a picture of your completed newsletter and add it into the Bulletin designer, further you could link the pictures to the document as well.

    If you are able to share what your current newsletters look like, we might be able to help bridge the gap, and or see if there are improvements we can make to our current widgets and layouts.
     
  3. Alan Brown

    By:Alan Brown-  Sep 5, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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    Hi Zach,

    Here is the first page of our latest newsletter, produced by MS Publisher. I appreciate that font selection on ClubRunner is limited to what most people's computers will translate correctly, which is why I usually send our newsletter as a series of PNG images such as this, meaning the fonts I choose to use are correctly displayed on every computer. Currently, to send a newsletter, I simply add a series of PNG images (one for each page) to an email that I then send to every club member. My question is: Can I do the same thing using the Bulletin function? That is, can I simply cut and paste a PNG image to fully fill each page of say a 6-page bulletin?

    Second question (while I'm here): I've received an email inquiry from a non-member in my personal email Inbox. I want to send a reply via ClubRunner rather than my personal email, but I don't see any way of sending an email to a non-member.

    Best regards,
    Alan Brown
    Communications Director
    Glacier Probus, Comox Valley, BC
    info@glacierprobus.ca
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