a.l.e wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:22:02 -0200 > "estagiario tecnologia" <estagiarioti at jfhoje.com.br> wrote: > > >> Sorry my bad ingl?s (google Translate) >> >> I have 16 pages of a newspaper with daily circulation and printing, I >> wonder if the people who placed the provision, if you have already >> had some experience of a kind, and what were the major problems >> encountered by you. So I am trying substitute the software business >> that we have it, and that will be viable or should I discard the >> possibility ? >> > > as far as i know, there is no daily newspaper published with scribus. > > in france, there was a weekly magazine called "le tigre" (which still exists > as a monthly magazine). > > most of the newspapers created with scribus are issued monthly. > > recalling, how "le tigre" adopted scribus, i think you should take some time > to prepare the switch. > > i think, that an important step was (if i recall correctly) that le tigre > used the developpement version of scribus, sorted out all the bugs and > missing features which hit them and then stayed with that specific build. > > in order to go such a way you should find a developper of scribus which is > interessed in your project... and be able to communicate with at least one of > them (several of them speak french, afaik none of them potoguese). > > you could also find a developper or IT person physically near you (you will > probably have to pay him) and who can speak EN, DE or FR and have him mediate > between your company and the scribus world. > I think Scribus can do the job as it exists, technically speaking. Having said that, in order to put out a *daily* newspaper, a tight workflow is going to be necessary, and one would certainly want all the PDF-related issues with the printer all sorted out.
We have had some questions about newspapers in the past, but no reports of anyone coming to grips with the demands of a daily. Greg
