Popular general-interest magazine transitions from Quark Publishing System to Woodwing's Smart Connection Enterprise featuring InDesign and InCopy. Power, ease of transition were concerns.
In a press release published 29 August 2005, the site Presse Mitteilung announced that the largest weekly magazine in the Netherlands, Elsevier Magazine, has transitioned from Quark Publishing System and QuarkXPress to Woodwing’s Smart Connection Enterpriseâ„¢ publishing system, featuring a workflow based on Adobe InDesignâ„¢ for layout and Adobe InCopyâ„¢ for editorial support.
The magazine is reported as being not only impressed with the power and flexibility of thier new system, but also with the speed and smoothness of transition, with only about two months elapsing between thier first meeting about Smart Connection Enterprise until the new system went live. “WoodWing was able to implement the system quickly, and we’ve had great success with it,†Hans Crooijmans, associate editor-in-chief of Elsevier was quoted as saying.
The article can be read in full at Presse Mittelung’s website here.
InDesign is really booming here in the Netherlands! The largest newspapers and publishers have also switched to InDesign. It’s everywhere in the OSX and design forums. Every design agency that takes itselve serious uses it. Perhaps it’s because we are so fund of effecientie? Or is it because we can get a lot more work done in the same time? The only reason for me to boot Xpress 6 is to convert to 5 and from 5 to 4. So I can open it in InDesign ;-). The use of Xpress 6 is banned. (The only thing I hope they will inprove is the use of colorsync and RGB, CMYK profiles).
Marco:
The use of Xpress 6 is banned.
On your personal machine or in NL in general?
The above is a half-serious question…
Another question which springs to mind-on my own machine I maintain a copy of XPress 6.5. Just off hand, do you know of many designers/shops (within your experience, anway) that maintain any version of Quark because it’s hard to say when a Quark file will come thier way?
Indeed. Just two copies for the entire studio. We have to just to convert QXD documents for use in InDesign.