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From: Dave Schmutz <>
Subject: RE: Family & Life History Books
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:19:44 -0700

Dear Darline:
We sent out our first Christmas letter with a scanned photo of the
children. We printed it on a color printer and everyone loved it. (We
also posted it on our website with more photos of the children for those
with web access to look at). We happen to use MS Word, but I am sure
any word processing programs can do the same.

It was simple to do. The command we use in MS Word was: Import then
Picture. Then we could resize it to fit the width of the page.

The only drawback to the whole experience was printing out 30 letters on
the color printer. It took forever. Next year we'll start earlier.

best regards,
Dave Schmutz

p.s. If you can get an original that is 5x7 or 8x10 to do the scan with
works out better for resolution than a 3x5 or 4x6.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:Darline [SMTP:]
> Sent:Monday, January 26, 1998 8:16 PM
> To:
> Subject:Family & Life History Books
>
> This is off the subject but I am wondering if anyone on the list has
> any
> experience with a program to layout and write life stories and family
> histories in a book format complete with scanned in photos and
> documents. A
> man was talking to me at work one day and said he has used the Adobe
> Pagemaker program and is writing his complete life story including
> scanned
> photos, etc. and printing it out on a color printer. Does anyone have
> any
> other suggestions and price ranges as well as a good source for the
> program?
> What kind of success (or failure) have you experienced with this kind
> of
> project? I've been writing up incidents and info from my life and
> have it
> on Word Perfect but I'd like to scan in the photos instead of printing
> up
> the text then putting the pictures in separately. TIA for any help!
> Darline
>

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