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TelevisionPublisher — automated TV listings layout

5 September 2002

Every typesetter who has ever dealt with TV listings has surely wondered how to automate that tedious, repetitive work.

A Russian-language program, TelevisionPublisher, has appeared online; it automates the following tasks:

  • publishing listings in the formats you need — plain text, RTF, HTML, Adobe Pagemaker Tagged Text, Quark XPress Tags or Xtags for Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign Tagged Text and others;

  • applying formatting according to the accepted house styles;

  • taking into account air time, the genre of films and programmes, and accompanying information (a teaser or comments);

  • transforming the listings text according to your requirements;

  • making corrections, replacements and sorting of listings text according to user-defined rules;

  • merging and splitting listings according to user-defined rules — all in one, files by day of the week, files by channel, separately for each channel and each day and so on;

  • writing and applying scripts in JavaScript.

    Thanks to Java technology, TelevisionPublisher runs on any platform.

    Demo limitation: each channel’s output contains only 10 programmes.

  • Download the demo: http://www.tiff.ru/projects/tvp2/download

  • Official program page: http://www.tiff.ru/projects/tvp2/