Create a holiday newsletter with Pages or iPhoto

#1 Macworld

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 03:30 AM

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#2 pablokent

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 12:12 PM

I've used Print Shop 2 by MacKiev for years. Love it. I merge fields from an imported custom list and personalize each newsletter. MacKiev has provided free updates and the application works great with 10.8.

#3 talmy

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 12:27 PM

Info on Pages is a bit dated. It's actually had updates with Lion and Mountain Lion to work with the features introduced with these OSes. And it's $20 now and called "Pages" without a year. Can you still buy the iWork suite?? Also iPhoto '11 is $15 and not $49.

#4 Jackie_Dove

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:52 PM

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#5 jpellino

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 06:30 PM

Ohdeargodno. Please don't give anyone any inspiration to make these letters any more insipid or cloying than they are when typewritten and folded into a normal Christmas card.

The article should be edited to read: "You can only make year-end family newsletters by purchasing and using Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Edition. Knock yerself out."

Besides, hasn't Facebook lapped our ability/need to annually recite what the family did this year?

#6 bear90039

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 09:04 PM

Nobody wants to read about you or your family. Nobody. Even your Mother has things to over the holidays. Your Christmas card should say exactly "Merry Christmas". This is not about you.
Making it all about you shows selfishness and self-importance. Making the holidays about you is showing very little class.

#7 danmusician

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 10:03 PM

As a recovering year end letter writer, I apologize to all my family members and former friends for inflicting my narcissistic annual rumblings on them in years gone by. I agree with jpellino that Facebook has made this ritual redundant. I encourage anyone considering writing such a letter to read these song lyrics before you begin:

http://www.lyricsman..._and_oates.html

#8 DavidClive

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Posted 27 November 2012 - 11:50 AM

meanwhile... Beyonce is directing a "documentary" about HER life.

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Posted 03 December 2012 - 10:53 AM

Perhaps your year-end letters are not interesting enough. I get messages of appreciation from people and even complaints when the year-end tome is late.
I don't think it fair to fill friends inbox with a large graphics filled file, so I compose the letter using up to 4 pages on iWeb (if you still have it). iWeb elements will mostly paste into Pages for the dozen or so people who prefer snail mail.
Since web pages are best kept to screen size, the Pages version ends up as folded in half to 8.5 x 5.5 inches with the outsize front page rotated 180° so it stands as a tent. Pages offers wonderful flexibility to accomplish such antics.