Dummy software

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Permalink Reply by Michael Carter on February 10, 2009 at 5:00pm

Folio does have some White Paper articles that might help. There is a link at the top of this page for 'White Papers' under the FOLIO Mag menu. These can show some solutions that other people have used. On the second page is one for a publication mapping system by EFI which is a company that I work for. There are also some others.

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Permalink Reply by Bert N. Langford on February 11, 2009 at 4:39pm

I also represent dataplan GmbH, www.dataplan.de, a German company doing business in this country who has two products, JournalDesigner and JournalProducer, in use by both Hachette Filipacchi USA and Reed Business Information as well as others. David: No sales pitch intended, just answering the original posting.

Bert Langford

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Permalink Reply by Jo Armstrong-Smith on March 11, 2009 at 3:32am

Hi Cathy,
I've worked in magazine production for over 17 years and my experience has been that unless you have a lot (50+ titles), these sorts of systems are very expensive and difficult to integrate into existing IT infrastructure.
My experience has been that they are difficult to run, the amount of 'information input' required to get something close to a workable dummy negates time|cost savings you're told you can realise.
Unless you're starting a new and complete system from scratch, I'd probably save your money and time and have someone plan your magazine manually.
Let me know if you've found a system that does what it says on the tin - I'd be interested if you did.
Best regards
Jo Armstrong

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