<html><body><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:58:46PM -0500, Christopher W Ryan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">I am on the board of trustees of our local public library. Traditionally,</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">the two libraries in our town produce and mail, to all the households in</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">our town, a summer newsletter/newspaper. Roughly 4 pages, but on one larger</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">sheet of paper, folded in the middle. In color. Here is an example:</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><a href="http://gfjlibrary.org/TOUNewsletters/2019TOUFlyer.pdf" data-mce-href="http://gfjlibrary.org/TOUNewsletters/2019TOUFlyer.pdf">http://gfjlibrary.org/TOUNewsletters/2019TOUFlyer.pdf</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Staff writes the content, and then we've traditionally used a commercial</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">art/design/printing firm. In the interest of our budget, any thoughts on</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">how I might do this in LaTeX, generating a pdf, and then we'd just have to</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">pay for the printing? Any packages or strategies you'd recommend? Anyone</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">else done something similar?</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Thanks.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="quoted-plain-text">Chris Ryan</blockquote><br>CTAN does have the newspaper package that sounds like a step in the direction of what you'd want to do. After creating your newsletter with that you could then impose the created pages to the proper large size of paper for printing.<br><br>See: <a href="https://www.ctan.org/pkg/newspaper" data-mce-href="https://www.ctan.org/pkg/newspaper">https://www.ctan.org/pkg/newspaper</a><br><br>Stephen Michael Kellat<br><br><br></span></div></body></html>