ST AUGUSTINES NEWSLETTER IN ELECTRONIC FORM

Current Newsletter - November/ December 2009

In order to save the extensive printing costs, and due to the large number of parishioners who have access to the Internet it has been decided to distribute future issues of the St Augustines newsletter electronically. This page has been put together to answer some of the questions you may have - and to help you download your first copy.

The first Electronic newsletter was July 2005's copy - this has also been distributed in paper form to allow you to get used to the new distribution format.

Any other questions can of course be addressed to either the Church Office or the Webmaster (Robert Ramsay) who can be contacted at web_master AT staugustines DOT de

Q: In what format will the newsletter be distributed?
Adobe's Portable Document Format - Better known as PDF

Q: Why don't you distribute it in <insert chosen format here>?
PDF has been chosen for a number of reasons. Firstly (and probably from your point of view, most importantly) the reader (Adobe Acrobat) is free. Secondly, it doesn't matter whether the user is running Windows, Macintosh, Unix or (practically) any other operating system and Thirdly, a PDF document is quick to download (they are usually a factor of ten smaller than equivalent file formats).

Q: Are you going to distribute it in Microsoft Word format?
No.

Q: Ok, so what's with this Acrobat thingy - where do I get it?
It might already be installed on your computer - it comes pre-installed in many cases. Try downloading the newsletter by clicking on the "Get Newsletter" below - If Acrobat is already installed then it will open automatically in your browser and can be saved to disk or printed.

Q: No - tried that and it didn't work - what do I do now?
Get Acrobat from the download site by clicking on the graphic below.



Q: 26.8MB?!? That's huge - There's no way I am going to download that with my dialup modem
Fair point! Send an a mail to The Church Office or the Webmaster (web_master AT staugustines DOT de), and we will do our best to get a CD to you.

Q: Aaaragh! Nothing works - I have been up all night, I am frustrated and I want this thing to work!
Don't panic! Get in contact with Church Office who will point you in the direction of someone "in the know" or send an e-mail to the Webmaster who will try and do the same.

Q: I've installed Acrobat! Where do I get the newsletter from?
Click the Current Newsletter link at the top of this page


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