LeDroit
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LeDroit, a French-language 70-page tabloid published in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) is produced with an innovative multi-platform electronic system from SHL Systemhouse Inc. The $1.7 million Canadian (about $1.5 million US) system began operation in Dec 1989. Classifieds are compiled with SCS-Classified Ad on eight dumb terminals hooked up to a Compaq 386. The editorial process is done on microcomputers. Twenty-four dumb terminals connected to four 386 Compaqs are available for reporters. Financial problems and the automated system led to the layoff of about half of the staff of 250. Many of the workers found other positions at LeDroit's parent company; others are working for other newspapers. The people with the most problem finding new employment were those who worked in the composing room; that trade is going electronic. LeDroit's new hardware includes the Compaq Deskpro 386/33, Apple Macintosh SE, SE/30, IIcx, IIci, LaserWriter NTX, and Apple CD SC player.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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The Vincennes Sun-Commercial
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Vincennes Sun-Commercial, a small daily newspaper in Vincennes, IN, is published on a Macintosh-based system. The paginated newspaper is produced with a network of Macintoshes, PostScript imagesetters and an electronic darkroom. This set-up cost half the price of a proprietary system. Under the direction of Bill Brooks, the Sun-Commercial was one of the first papers in Indiana to run color in 1967. By 1984 Brooks was looking to upgrade the system but was unwilling to pay a lot of money for a proprietary system. In 1987 he purchased a package of five Macintosh Pluses, proprietary ad composition software, and two partial-page Lasercomp Blaser typesetters. ReadySetGo was purchased with the staff in mind; it is easier to learn than PageMaker. The laser typesetters turned out not to be the greatest machines; in 1989 they were traded in for 1,000-dpi Lasercomp PostScript Express imagesetters that printed full broadsheet newspaper width.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Picturing the news: how Pulitzer Prize-winning teams compile informational graphics
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Two newspaper graphics artists, James McFarlane of The Seattle Times, and Kevin Boyd of The San Jose Mercury News, are profiled. McFarlane uses a Macintosh IIcx with a Radius 19-inch monitor and likes MacDraw II for quick printing applications and faster, simpler line-art work, quick redraw and easy revisions. Aldus FreeHand offers superior control for handling screens, color and typography. Kevin Boyd uses a Macintosh IIcx with SuperMac Technology 19-inch monitor and creates graphics with Claris MacDraw II. When Boyd can print his final art directly from the Mac, he prefers FreeHand. Usually color graphics are passed to the scanning department at the Mercury News. The two artists look forward to the release of MacDraw Pro for better text handling than MacDraw II.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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