Survey of Newspaper Production Flow for E-paper - Kungliga ...

Johan Danckwardt
Survey of newspaper production flow for e-paper 3 Theory
imposition is finished the printing plates can be produced and mounted in the printing presses
and then the newspaper is ready to be printed.
3.4.2.4 Web based publishing and other publishing techniques
When the reporter at Sundsvalls Tidning writes an article he or she has two choices regarding
publishing on the web. The reporter can choose to publish the article at the regular time of
publishing at 6 AM, the same time the subscribers get their newspaper in the morning. The
other choice is to publish the article at once. The second choice is often used when there have
been some international or domestic event of importance [Lindström, 2005]. The publishing
time of 6 AM is set to correspond to the delivery of the traditional paper-based newspaper to
the newspapers subscribers.
Each article is also saved as a XML file. The XML files are adapted to the web publishing
standards of Sundsvalls Tidning. The collected articles in form of XML files are transferred at
6 AM to the Management System for publishing at the Sundsvalls Tidning’s webpage. The
Management System is built in-house by Sundsvalls Tidning using PHP code and is able to
publish content on their webpage, on WAP and RSS channel. The Management System also
generates a text version of the newspaper, meant for readers using a PDA or users on the web
just wanting the articles [ST 3 , 2005].
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