GoogleDocs → WordPress → InDesign (Bangor Daily News)
[…] There are other ways to go about the web-to-print jump, much smarter than what I did. My favorite example from 2011 is the Bangor Daily News team’s workflow. William P. Davis has written about their setup, but I’ll summarize it quickly here. They publish to the web and have a print edition as well. Their workflow involves Google Docs, WordPress, and InDesign. Their authors begin in Google Docs, where the articles are written and edited. When they’re ready to publish, the doc is put in a special folder that is then sent via XMLRPC to WordPress. From there they have a process in place to turn the WordPress posts into InDesign Tagged Text files that InDesign can search for and import. In this way, they have a pretty seamless workflow from Google Docs to WordPress, and finally to print. There’s a plugin for the Google Docs to WordPress half of it, and instructions for setting up the InDesign half of it on the Bangor Daily News dev blog. […]