The following questions came in over the Internet from Mick Bolduc, pre-press manager for The Hartford (Conn.) Courant. The answers are from TechNews Editor Clark Robinson.
Q. The Jan./Feb. issue of TechNews references the Nov./Dec. issue several times as it relates to pagination. I am very interested in getting the info referenced in the report. Is it available on line, or how else might I get access to it?
A. You should have received a copy by now. Also, for your information, you can view TechNews on the World Wide Web (http://www.naa.org/). You can also view the cover story on pagination directly (http:// www.naa.org/tnews/tn951112/p5ticket.html).
Q. Are there other resources on the pagination front already on line as well?
A. Yes, scads of it.
I suggest you start by looking at the 1995 American Society of Newspaper Editors/Society of Newspaper Design Technology Survey (http://nwu.edu/snd/pagination/). It has newspaper case studies, interviews with industry consultants and a survey of newspapers regarding their pagination systems.
Next, you might try The XPresso Bar for QuarkXPress tips (http://www.halcyon.com/bobgale/xpresso.html), the Desktop Publishing Internet Jumplist (http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/gwp/dtp/dtp.html) and A Valuable QuarkXPress FTP Site (ftp://ftp.telalikn.net/pub/quark/).
In addition to TechNews and Presstime, The Cole Papers (http://colegroup.com) and Seybold Publications (http://www.media.sbexpos.com/) are on line.
Many, many vendors have web sites. Here are but a few: Quark Inc. (http://www.quark.com), Apple (http://www.apple.com), CText (http://www.ctext.com), System Integrators Inc. (http://www.sii.com), Baseview (http://www.baseview.com) and Adobe (http://www.ad (http://www.adobe.com).
If these aren't enough to keep you busy, you might also try one of the Web search engines: Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.digital.com), Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com), Inktomi (http://inktomi.berkeley.edu) or Web Crawler (http://www.webcrawler.com). I like Alta Vista the best, as it gives you the most information about what it finds for you. Try searching on "newspaper pagination."
If you signed on with the NAA Electronic forum on America Online and you have a specific question, try posting it. From the AOL main menu, pull down the "Go To" window, go to "Keyword" and type in "NAA." This will get you into the forum. Double click on "General Discussion," then "List Categories," then "Production/Operations." Once you post your question, employees from other NAA-member newspapers can read and answer it.
Finally, anyone can E-mail a question to "Ask TechNews" (technews@naa.org). I will have someone research it and supply an answer, and if I think it would be of general interest to our readers, I will publish the exchange in our next issue--with permission, of course.
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