Latex Newsletter

IAGA Newsletter Latex template

You can download a zip archive with the whole Latex template that is necessary for the production of a IAGA newsletters.

after Download, you should unzip it into a destination workin folder. The best choice for compiling the document is pdflatex.

The zipped folder contains a folder with a "template" sub folder where the style relevant files are located and an "image" sub folder where you can put image files, you want to embed to IAGA newsletter PDF file:

IAGA-Newsletter:

images
- image1.jpg
- image2.jpg
- ....
template
- images
  - IAGA-logo.png
  - IAGA-banner.png
  - background.png
- styles
  - IAGAnewsletter.sty
  - swe_gfz.css
IAGAnews.tex

Optimization of PDF documents (i.e. for sending it via E-Mail)

In most cases, the finished newsletters file size is very big (several megabytes), depending on number and size of embedded graphic files (diagrams, photos, Logos ...). In order to reduce the size of the document, you should reduce all embedded pixel graphics by using you prefered Windows of Mac Software, or via command line tools on Linux/Unix systems. In this case, three steps are necessary:

1. Get the PDF meta data from originally PDF file and write it to a temporary file (info.txt) using pdftk

$ > pdftk IAGAnewsXY-highres.pdf dump_data output info.txt

The output file info.txt includes all meta information from original generated PDF file, i.e. CreationDate, Author, Title, Producer, etc.

2. Create a PDF version with a practical resolution of all includes images using ghostscript

$ > gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUS E -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=IAGAnewsXY-lowres.pdf IAGAnewsXY-highres.pdf

for more information and different reolutions please read the ghostscript manual page.

3. Put the PDF meta data back into the new created reduced size PDF file

$ > pdftk IAGAnewsXY-lowres.pdf update_info info.txt output IAGAnewsXY.pdf