Editor & Publisher: Two Ways Weeklies Adopted Adobe

Two weekly publisher organizations moved from Quark to Adobe; E&P article highlights the journey

Recently, two week­ly pub­lish­ers tran­si­tioned from Quark to Adobe.

Most sites run­ning XPress stayed at ver­sion 4.11, because there was noth­ing new that was use­ful in ver­sion 5 and 6.

One, Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distribution Ltd., is Canadian com­pa­ny that pub­lish­es 65 titles in 110 edi­tions week­ly. Impressed by InDesign’s inte­gra­tion with Photoshop, and dis­ap­point­ed with QuarkXPress (“Most sites run­ning XPress stayed at ver­sion 4.11, [Metroland IT direc­tor Steve Levant says], because there was noth­ing new that was use­ful in ver­sion 5 and 6.”).

Starting with InDesign and train­ing from Adobe, they have moved toward ful­ly adopt­ing the Creative Suite. It is expect­ed that 80% of their con­ver­sion to be com­plete by the end of 2005.

Meanwhile, on Long Island, The Southhampton (N.Y.) Press moved from QuarkXPress to a TruEdit work­flow, a solu­tion that inte­grates InDesign and InCopy.

The var­i­ous tech­nolo­gies in play (Metroland uses Macs, Southhampton PCs) and the mix­ture of news and insight make this arti­cle a worth­while read.

Read Case Study: Two Ways Weeklies Adopted Adobe, by Jim Rosenberg, at the Editor & Publisher site here.