Over the course of the Pandemic Flyer to Go thread, I posted three versions of a pandemic flu flyer. People have to search the whole thread to find all three. The flyers can now be accessed one address http://mindspinner.net. (No www, just mindspinner.net.)
Great - just great InKy.
The flyers have just the right balance of info. And they look good too! I gave them to a guy selling me a copier for my office and he began to ask me questions…. 1 hr later….. he left ready to do his own research.
The flyer works!
I hope we’ll keep this up. My 250 copies will not be enough. I’m going to try emailing newpaper editors with the flyer and a couple of key articles. My hometown news editor has ignored my emails to date, but that doesn’t mean every editor will.
I’m going to bump the flyers up during PFAW.
I had 500 printed in black & white.
The red was really eyecatching, but I could not get as many printed at 78 cts each as Staples.
I will set them out at municipalities and librarys and see what happens.
I will also take them on election day and exchange my papes with the poll workers. ‘You read mine and I will read yours’
The are Z folder witht the banner on the outside first fold.
Anyone have any experience so far with handing them out? Any advice on getting permsiion to leave them at public places? This is my first time at being an activist.
I was told at Wal-Mart that I’d have to call 1–800-Wal-Mart and talk to the home office about leaving flyers there. My car is in the shop today, but tomorrow I want to take some to City Hall, the Fire Department, the Police Department, local pharmacies, and OVEC, a regional education agency that might have a useful role to play. I want to get conversations started in this town.
I couldn’t afford color, either, and like you, I opted for quantity.
I made a one page flyer for posting on community bulletin boards - it has little tear off tabs with informational website addresses - feel free to post a link with your other flyers if you want:
page 1: http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer.pub
page 2 is extra tear off tabs with the addresses: http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-addresses.pub
I printed page 1 on heavy card stock, then stapled the extra tear off tabs on top of the ones on page 1 (you’ll see what I mean).
Don’t know how to make a .pdf in Microsoft Publisher - maybe I have an old version but that’s not a “save as” option - any ideas?
Tried to make it into a Word file but can’t figure out how to do that either. Made it into a .gif but it printed all fuzzy and looked bad.
If anyone can convert my file into a .pdf I’ll gladly post it here.
Also working on a smaller one for community BBs that don’t allow full sheets.
Rob T successfully converted his Pulblisher flyer to a PDF. There are some instructions for doing that in this document. Scroll down to the section on PDF files. Hope that works for you. Unfortunately, browsers can’t make heads or tails of Publisher files, and Publisher won’t incorporate PDF capability until the next iteration of Office. Hope you can get it to work - the flyer sounds very useful for posting in public places.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll investigate.
While I’m working on it, if you happen to have Publisher you can right click that link and save the file to your HD. Then you can open it.
That’s good to know - people who have Publisher can get the doc then. I actually have Microsoft Office for Mac, but it’s not a version updated for my Intel MacBook Pro. I ran it for a while and then the MacBook Pro crashed, and I lost a couple of months worth of stuff. I opted not to reload non-native software, and I’ve been fine since.
Those who have Publisher can access Rob T’s flyer then, so I’ll post that here: http://mindspinner.net/docs/Community_Pandemic_flyer.pub .
Duh.
I just had to change the “print to” to Acrobat pdfwriter and it prints to a .pdf instead of my printer
Here goes:
http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer3.PDF http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-addresses.PDF
still working on the smaller version - the pdfwriter messes up the margins
Here’s one with no tear-offs, printed 2 to a page:
http://newcreations.net/Flyer-HALF-na.PDF
This is a less expensive handout option since it’s one sided and 2 to a page.
These look great, and both extend the possibilities because they reach more people with less paper. People can choose what works best for them. Thank you for your work on them! I like the visual reminder of the 1918 pandemic to convey the gravity of the possibilities. I’m feeling that all these flyer options will help Flu Wikians get the word out in a big way.
a common way to create PDF is to print them. yes thats right, but you dont print it on paper, You print it as a “file”. So if your aplication dont have a “save as .PDF”option, you may find it in the print meny. Look for the option “print to file” and schoose “.pdf” or if not, as “.PS” The PDf file will then be created on your desktop or somevhere you choose.
If your only option is as “.ps” file you may need to convert that file into .”PDF” format by the aplication ($) “Acrobat Profesional”
Most aplication like MS Word etc have a “save as pdf” option on the PC. On the macs its buildt into the system so you may create pdf´s from any aplication.
http://www.openoffice.org allows you to “print as PDF”. There are other ways.
There are now seven versions of pandemic flu flyers on this thread :-). Flu flyers are rapidly mutating to adapt to different uses and places, and if I keep them bumped up somewhere near the top, guess what, people take a look and maybe print out a version, make some copies, and better the odds that their neighbors, friends, family, and coworkers will survive. It’s a viral thing - in a good way.
OK - finally - here’s the one printed 2 to a page, with tear offs. These are good on community BBs that don’t have much space:
http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-HALF.PDF http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-HALF-addresses.PDF
They look best when you print them on glossy photo paper, and the tear off tabs are printed on card stock.
InKy you said 7 versions - I couldn’t find the others:
InKy’s 3 versions: http://mindspinner.net/docs/panfluflyerfinal.pdf http://mindspinner.net/docs/uspanfluprepflyer.pdf http://mindspinner.net/docs/intpanfluprepflyer.pdf
Rob T’s http://mindspinner.net/docs/Community_Pandemic_flyer.pub (I still can’t open this one - I have the wrong version of publisher)
Full page for community BB, with tear-offs http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer3.PDF http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-addresses.PDF
Half page for community BB, with tear-offs http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-HALF.PDF http://newcreations.net/PanFlu-Flyer-HALF-addresses.PDF
2 to a page http://newcreations.net/Flyer-HALF-na.PDF
Any others?
I’m off to post flyers! It will be interesting to check to see if the tear offs are gone after a couple of weeks - this will be a good way of telling how alert/concerned the people in my area are regarding this issue…
I think you’ve got them all here - that’s helpful. I was hoping links would be posted at some permanent spot on Flu Wiki instead of bobbing up and down among discussion threads, but that’s not happened yet. Be sure to let us know whether the tear-offs disappear. I know my flyers have been taken out of newspaper boxes, but I can’t tell whether people really paid attention to them or just tossed them as soon as they got inside. The problem in my area is that my flyers just dropped out of the blue; people don’t hear or read much about the bird flu otherwise. I think it takes a certain number of exposures to information before people begin to take the threat seriously.
I couldn’t retrieve my car until today after 5:00 p.m. today, so I didn’t get flyers to places around town, as I had hoped to.
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Happy New Year…
Bumping this thread still generates a spike in traffic for the flyers - I had to come see what was up :-).
Glad you did & we’ll keep bumping!
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bump again. I just printed out a bunch of the quarter page flyers. Have been leaving them on windshields around my neighborhood and miscellaneous other places.
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