Jefe, As I said the fonts are not increasing file size as much as the format I use to create the newsletter. As i indicated, I am reluctant to use another platform as it won't look as good , will offer less flexibility in what I can do with the newsletter, and generally make more work for me. Call me a bit anal here but I like the look of the nesletter and judging by comments I've recieved so does the mebership. To be blunt, I think SACnews is the best looking astronomy newsletter I've seen of the ones I recieve. I take this as a matter of pride and think it reflects (pun intended) well on our club. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Jones, Jack (AZ75) [mailto:jack.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:34 AM To: 'sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [sac-board] Re: Newsletter Size The file Paul sent was 1.2 MEG. I didn't want to argue a bunch of numbers, I'm just saying it takes too damn long to load. Nobody answered my question: Can't we get rid of these special fonts in future issues and use some of the +100 common fonts that are available? There should be something there that would be similar and we would like. Jack > -----Original Message----- > From: Tejera, Rick [SMTP:rtejera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:47 AM > To: 'sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: [sac-board] Re: Newsletter Size > > From what I can tell they do thiers on MS Word. I do ours on MS Publisher. > Publisher is a true Dsktop publishing program. It's not nessecarily the > fonts but the features in publisher that give it the flexibilty to produce > a > professional looking publication. I'm really loathe to going back to a > word > processor. Also consider that the last issue was 16 pages vs the 8 or so > for > EVAC. The embedded fonts thing added to the file size as well. The file > size > for the last issue was 897kb not 1200. Without embedded fonts it would be > about 400kb. I guess a regular sized issue (12 pages) would be about > 500-600kb. Based on the response I've gotten so far regarding enmbedding > fonts it 3-0 in favor, so file size doesn't seem to be an issue with > people. >