A better online newspaper

If you are involved in creating an online edition of a newspaper or magazine, then take a look at the weekly "Emprint" edition of the Columbia Missourian.

You will have to register, but already it has attracted the attention of people in around 60 other countries and my guess would be that there are plenty of journalists and publishers among those.

The online newspaper was produced with InDesign, and, for full access needs Adobe Reader 7. The current edition is a 10MB PDF and manages to make browsing through its 117 pages a lot easier than I would have thought possible.

It opens automatically in full screen view and is legible at that size on my 19-inch monitor, with section tabs down the right hand side of the page and forward, back and page number buttons discretely placed at the bottom. Very neat.

The illustrations are a good compromise in quality and file size and there is no security on the file so you can have a look at exactly how it is done in Acrobat 7.