That is AMAZING news! There is a nice momentum here that can enthuse this community. How can we ride this wave to a nice progress boost, along with all the great progress that is happening already?
Cheers! /Kunda On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Judith Longman <Judith at longmanonline.co.uk>wrote: > Congratulations, Cedric. > How many pages does the newspaper contain? > Judith > > -----Original Message----- From: ZASKE Martin > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:16 PM > To: Scribus User Mailing List > Subject: Re: [scribus] Newspaper made with Scribus > > > Thank you Cedric, > > for a very encouraging write-up. I am sure that with time, this new > newspaper will also feed good stuff back to the Scribus community. > > I was curious, just could not believe that anything new does NOT have a > website. Even biscuits and bars of soap got their own website. > > So I found this very nice building site, which is still charmingly > giving Lorem ipsum... > > http://axonais.fr/ > > It shows that those guys are for real and that they got style, even if > no content yet. > > Give yourself a pat on the shoulder Cedric, and hopefully soon we can > get a look at some online versions. Do not forget to tell the Axonais > team that they can present themselves here: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Success_stories_2014 > > Martin > > > On 23.05.2014 14:40, pygmee wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> I'm here to announce the a new french weekly newspaper now uses Scribus >> :) unfortunately they have no website but it is called L'Axonais. >> >> 1. In january the proprietary of Oisehebdo (another weekly) phoned me to >> know about scribus >> 2. I gave him some names like Le Tigre, Flossmanuals that are publishers >> already using Scribus, and presented myself as a graphic designer and >> trainer working only with it for years, as a proof >> 3. later in january, we had a first meeting to show them how scribus was >> working and see if the employee could enjoy it >> 4. In April he phone me again, saying he was seriously on the way for a >> new weekly and ask for me to come several day and help them build it >> 5. That's what i did and everybody seems OK with Scribus and Gimp, in >> this new team. >> 6. We add then some exchange with the printshop (they forgot to check >> some boxes in the PDF export, like the small "Printer" one :) we should >> really put it more clear may be an intent on the first tab) >> 7. The 21th of May was the day they were launching the first issue, i >> made some preset and modify preference so they won't forget any options, i >> made some little python script that can help them in their workflow. >> 8. The newspaper in now out with a first step of 8000 copies (they want >> 12000 at the end). Everybody is happy with scribus result and workflow >> (even if some issue can angry them sometimes like loosing paragraph >> formatting when deleting a whole paragraph to replace the content, or not >> having a real spell checker, i mean one like pro-lexis or antidote working >> with and that the built-in search tool only works frame-based [little >> changes could make things much confortable to some users]). >> >> Anyway, at this time, this is the hugest project i've been working on and >> may be the hugest done in Scribus. At least another Proof it's possible. >> >> I would like one more time to thank all the team and the people involved >> including Louis who help me the last days to understand some of the >> printshop comments. >> >> This is another sign that, since the effort we're putting in promoting >> scribus for years in France, there has been more and more people using it >> (mainly in small companies and administrations) and that we're now entering >> a new world, the one scribus has been made for : publishers, publishers >> that are not specially in love with free softwares. >> >> It's hard for me to document all this but i guess it's necessary, and >> i'll doing asap. Until that, i'll be please to answer questions. >> >> cheers >> cedric (pygmee) >> >> ___ >> Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> Edit your options or unsubscribe: >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> See also: >> http://wiki.scribus.net >> http://forums.scribus.net >> >> > > -- > ZASKE Martin > responsable G?G? > BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin > tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 > tel pers 97.44.62.95 > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140525/059735f4/attachment.html>
