Major UK Publisher Abandoning Quark
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Major UK Publisher Abandoning Quark
Friday, June 27, 2003
By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
According to Macworld UK, "Guardian Newspapers Limited is migrating its editorial department to Adobe InDesign and Mac OS X," an interesting development on several counts.
The Guardian currently uses a "highly customized" version of Quark QPS and older versions of Mac OS. The change to InDesign means that 750 desktop machines in its editorial department will now be running OS X, and undoubtedly many of those computers will be replaced as well.
Here's how the newspapers will be produced:
The Guardian plans to build a new bespoke publishing solution integrating InDesign, InCopy and its own Oracle-based production database. Plug-ins to help integrate the system are in development by WoodWing Software.
Comments: Your editor has gotten to know the Guardian quite well over the last six months, having replaced almost all American-owned news Web sites in his personal bookmarks with UK ones like the Guardian's. While we have no experience with desktop publishing systems whatsoever, we do know who seems to have been trying harder to win friends and influence people in an industry that surely needs some competitive reshuffling. That the Guardian is willing to commit so strongly to Adobe and Mac OS X seems quite appropriate, under the circumstances.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_...fm?NewsID=6513
Guardian embraces InDesign, OS X
By Macworld staff
Guardian Newspapers Limited is migrating its editorial department to Adobe InDesign and Mac OS X, Adobe has revealed.
The Guardian plans to build a new bespoke publishing solution integrating InDesign, InCopy and its own Oracle-based production database. Plug-ins to help integrate the system are in development by WoodWing Software. The Guardian will migrate all 750 editorial desktops to OS X.
Company IT director Derek Gannon said: "We believe the sophisticated development environments offered by Adobe's applications and OS X, combined with the Oracle production database that we have developed internally in recent years, offer us an unbeatable way forward."
"The new system will mean we are able to continue to support our industry-leading product innovation with technological development."
The company expects that adopting the new systems to reduce the cost of ownership, be more flexible and offer benefits in terms of cross-media publishing, because of its built-in support for open standards, such as XML.
The Guardian currently employs a highly-customized version of Quark QPS and earlier versions of Mac OS.
Work on the project begins this summer and is expected to complete in late 2004.
Major UK Publisher Abandoning Quark
Friday, June 27, 2003
By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
According to Macworld UK, "Guardian Newspapers Limited is migrating its editorial department to Adobe InDesign and Mac OS X," an interesting development on several counts.
The Guardian currently uses a "highly customized" version of Quark QPS and older versions of Mac OS. The change to InDesign means that 750 desktop machines in its editorial department will now be running OS X, and undoubtedly many of those computers will be replaced as well.
Here's how the newspapers will be produced:
The Guardian plans to build a new bespoke publishing solution integrating InDesign, InCopy and its own Oracle-based production database. Plug-ins to help integrate the system are in development by WoodWing Software.
Comments: Your editor has gotten to know the Guardian quite well over the last six months, having replaced almost all American-owned news Web sites in his personal bookmarks with UK ones like the Guardian's. While we have no experience with desktop publishing systems whatsoever, we do know who seems to have been trying harder to win friends and influence people in an industry that surely needs some competitive reshuffling. That the Guardian is willing to commit so strongly to Adobe and Mac OS X seems quite appropriate, under the circumstances.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_...fm?NewsID=6513
Guardian embraces InDesign, OS X
By Macworld staff
Guardian Newspapers Limited is migrating its editorial department to Adobe InDesign and Mac OS X, Adobe has revealed.
The Guardian plans to build a new bespoke publishing solution integrating InDesign, InCopy and its own Oracle-based production database. Plug-ins to help integrate the system are in development by WoodWing Software. The Guardian will migrate all 750 editorial desktops to OS X.
Company IT director Derek Gannon said: "We believe the sophisticated development environments offered by Adobe's applications and OS X, combined with the Oracle production database that we have developed internally in recent years, offer us an unbeatable way forward."
"The new system will mean we are able to continue to support our industry-leading product innovation with technological development."
The company expects that adopting the new systems to reduce the cost of ownership, be more flexible and offer benefits in terms of cross-media publishing, because of its built-in support for open standards, such as XML.
The Guardian currently employs a highly-customized version of Quark QPS and earlier versions of Mac OS.
Work on the project begins this summer and is expected to complete in late 2004.
Comments
just speculating...
Amorya
Quark 6 is a joke. I am so glad I moved over to InDesign. I found a great printer that supports it and now actually prefers it.
The end to end solution is so much better. Quark has been raping its customers for sooo long that they are getting their payback now. I think that this will be a trend that more and more companies follow.