[IAEP] newspapers

[David Farning]

An interesting advance from our friends at FLOSS Manuals

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:34 AM, adam hyde<adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hey
>
> just a heads up...fm has now got a beta objavi (new as of a few days
> ago) that supports multi-column output for newspaper printing...we are
> testing it now, but i thought maybe it could be interesting as a target
> output of the forthcoming sugar sprint u guys are organising - newsprint
> is very cheap to print and can be done locally wherever a press exists
> so that there is no need to ship books etc...could be good format for
> textbooks...
>

In January we got some requests about printing the Sugar and XO
manuals on newsprint by local presses.  Looks like FM is make steady
progress in that direction.

david