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marco-a16964487
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September 13, 2018
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InDesign for newspaper layout

  • September 13, 2018
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Hi there,

I need some help to figure out if InDesign is suitable for my company needs.

Scenario:

We release an issue of our newspaper every day. We have an Editorial Application responsible to control the receiving of contents and when each content should be released. Currently the Editorial Application produces a fixed layout for each issue. It was great for the early issues of our newspaper, but nowadays it is a huge problem. Currently it is very common to adjust the layout according the content of the day.

We need a tool that:

- provides an API for integration to our Editorial Application (we have a development team here)

- allows the layout adjustments based on a template.

- does not allow the content changing by the layout team.

- the final version of "layout adjustment" could be exported to a PDF file.

Any help would be very appreciated !

Thanks
Marco.

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Correct answer JonathanArias

maybe instead of indesign you should work with something like pugpig? here: Pugpig

if the content grows or shrinks you will have to adjust the layout. that is just the nature of the beast. if you are looking for auto flows indesign is not the right tool. You want to be all HTML and responsive. at least that is my opinion. others will have different advice.

I work in publishing and i have an editorial team that work all in indesign. we do books, journal and magazines. and its a none stop adjusting and moving things. that is just the nature of the beast.

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JonathanArias
JonathanAriasCorrect answer
Legend
September 13, 2018

maybe instead of indesign you should work with something like pugpig? here: Pugpig

if the content grows or shrinks you will have to adjust the layout. that is just the nature of the beast. if you are looking for auto flows indesign is not the right tool. You want to be all HTML and responsive. at least that is my opinion. others will have different advice.

I work in publishing and i have an editorial team that work all in indesign. we do books, journal and magazines. and its a none stop adjusting and moving things. that is just the nature of the beast.

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marco-a16964487Author
Participant
September 13, 2018

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you so much for the prompt reply !

I have some questions: Does your team allowed to change the content ? I mean... is it possible to configure InDesign to allow adjust layout, move things but not change the content of things ?

PS: Thanks for present me Pugpig! I have never heard about it. I will check that.

JonathanArias
JonathanArias
Legend
September 13, 2018

our editorial team all got trained on indesign. so they do basic things but pretty much ask me to add pages, move layouts ( text frames and linked files). Plus editing linked files like .ai, .psd

We researched on many ways to allow for the designer (me) and editorial to work together on the same projects to keep up with demand of speed. we still work in indesign. we all just have our parts and having editorial learn indesign helped reduce drastically the number of edits i get.

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