blinkplan blog

We’ve had loads of positive feedback for Blinkplan (http://www.blinkplan.com). Here are a few samples:

“Bloody brilliant idea. This is a winner.”

“You’ve certainly nailed a basic industry need that was surprisingly hard to find on the web. Building these things in Excel or Word is not impossible, but not nearly as simple as you make it.”

“Love the software. Well done!”

After a few user requests, we added a “spanning” feature. It saves time if you’re flatplanning a long story, for example a fashion shoot. If you’re putting content on a page with a full-page template, and the following pages are empty (ie, they have question marks) full-page pages, an option will appear in your page menu. You can use this menu to choose whether you would like the following pages to be repeats of the first page – anywhere from two to ten repeats can be done.

Blinkplan went live just under two weeks ago, and the response has been very positive. We’ve upgraded our server capacity to cope with the number of sign-ups. It amazed us how quickly the news spread: within a few days of launch, magazine folks from the UK, the USA, Germany, South Africa and Russia had signed up. Quite a few big international consumer titles are using Blinkplan, as well as many custom and contract magazines.

The Blinkplan Blog is now launched. Not to a huge fanfare - more or less just to a click of the “Publish” button - but nevertheless - it’s launched.

Now what - you may ask - does this all mean? Well, it means that here Kerry and I will let you know about product updates, news, and tips & tricks. You are welcome to comment on any of our posts. We like meeting our customers.

And if you are wondering what Blinkplan is, then let me tell you: Blinkplan is the easiest way to create pagination - or flatplans - for magazines. Or in other words, flatplan software. It’s real cheap, it’s real easy to use, and we love it. Especially the PDFs it creates - that’s my favourite part.

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