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“Alternatives Economiques” is a monthly magazine informing its readers about developments in worldwide and domestic economy and society. The alternative publishing house has been using vjoon K2 since June 2008, also managing its other publications and special editions such as “Alternatives Internationales", “L'Economie Politique”, “Santé et Travail” and “Les Chiffres de l'Economie” with the system. For an optimal use of the publishing platform, K2 is running on two systems - with about eight different publications - to connect the editorial teams in Paris with designers in Dijon, for a total production team of about 17 people.

Famous for its beaches at the Atlantic Ocean, the French Department Vendée has also chosen to switch the production of its bi-weekly magazine “Le Journal de la Vendée” to vjoon K2. Its publisher, the administrative “conseil general” lays the editorial focus on news and stories of the region Vendée, one of the editorial highlights being the “Vendée Globe Challenge” sailing race around the world. “After a short time to get familiar with K2, the editors soon started to save much time and to gain a great flexibility to react to last-minute editorial changes,” says Ludovic Robet, Chief Editor of “Le Journal de la Vendée”.

“All together, the system has allowed us to improve the security in the production process, and the control and approval steps are now well organized, as the files are all stored in the database. Stories do not get lost on a file server anymore. Moreover, any editor has the opportunity to make his story shorter or longer by himself whenever needed, through remote work if necessary, which is also a very interesting feature.”

AD HOC Graphic also recently installed K2 at “Puteaux Infos”, a monthly local magazine produced by editors and designers in the city of Puteaux, a suburban area in Paris, which is internationally known for its business district La Défense. The first issue of “Puteaux Infos” produced with K2 was out in April 2009. Along with the integration of vjoon K2, the team switched its layout tool from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign and its editing tool from MS Word to Adobe InCopy. Now, 12 new users enjoy the smooth and secure way to work with permanent overview on the publishing process - possible through K2 Overview. From now on, one by one, other publications switch to an Adobe InDesign/InCopy and K2 based production. Puteaux is the first French municipality to choose Adobe InDesign and K2 for its publications.