[Product Developers] on Plone products for newspapers

[Héctor Velarde]

Timo Stollenwerk wrote:
> We discussed the issue of possible file formats for the import into a
> DTP program on the Scribus mailinglist, but what the people there want
> the most is Docbook support.

HV> ok, that sounds good to start, we will check later because adding 
NITF/NewsML support could not be so difficult.

> My general idea is that the CMS is able to handle the files from the DTP
> program directly as well as Docbook or other file formats. This is of
> course not possible with QuarkXPress and InDesign. As I understand your
> proceeding you want the CMS to handle IPTC XML, so that the DTP-Program
> (with your filters) can import it.

HV> I think we can separate this into different pieces; as long as I 
understand what you are working on is part of the whole process because 
it includes only the creation of a printed version of the content, and 
that is fine.

for example, if you content is created using some sort of XML editor, it 
would be ease to use different DTD (Docbook's or NITF's) to feed the 
DTP, but if you are going to use content created by a third party news 
agency, it would be probably better to use NITF.

on the other side, if you need to create a copy of the printed edition 
for the web, it will be great to do it exporting the whole edition as a 
NewsML file and then import it and parse it into the web server CMS.

> I'm still discussing this issue with the Scribus folks and my tutor at
> university. Maybe I'll take another approach with Docbook or IPTC XML
> import directly into the DTP program.

HV> great!

best regards

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Héctor Velarde
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