Renee Moodie

H7-mArygrrs facelift- at the press of a button STAFF REPORTEB THE Argus went through one ot'the biggest changes in its 139-year his- tory this week... and the fervent hope of its staff is that readers I hardly even noticed. Monday's editions of the paper rolled offthe presses having been prepared almost entirely on a R7 million computer system that puts Cape Newspapers among worlcl leaders in editorial technology. Today Weekend Argus joini-the pafty, with a newspaper put togeth- er for tl're first time on its jour.nalists' new Apple Macintosh-based system. Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed a slightly different look to certain pages of their favourite newspapers over the Iast few - largely because the new syslcnr cannot ltloclr.rcc t.hu rtlir months tively low quality look ol'Ure ffi 15- year-old computers it replaces. But former Weekend Argus subeditor Dave Chambers, a member ofthe team that has installed ancl implemented the new system, said his aim had been to integrate I I If, I il * li I [, lr I {. l,i !J pages produced on it into the exist- ing newspapers. "One problem we faced was some typefaces we have been using for more than a decade are no longer available, so we had to substitute near-equivalents,', he said. "It hasn't all been status quo, though. Having been severely limited in typographical scope for so manyyears. editors are beginning to flex their creative muscles. By tltis time next year I expect The t lN wrH THE NEWS: owen coetzer, chief sub-editor of rhe Saturday Magazine, gets Argus and Weekend Argus to have to grips with his new conrp.uter, wat_ched by Argus assistant eoiioi oarid Hirr,"t*in&"-* been completely redesigned. vernon siebert, sub-editor Melanie Farreil dnd t-rainer Re;;; Mooai". "I believe that with a strong new lool