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Monday, December 09, 02:09 PM CST ADVISORY Business Editors, Business Section Paginators, AP's Money...Show fullCollapse
Monday, December 09, 02:09 PM CST

ADVISORY

Business Editors,

Business Section Paginators,

AP's Money & Markets will move to a new system aimed at sustaining the most popular modules used by customers. This change will happen in January. AP's focus will remain on delivering markets data and information of highest interest to your readers, including l Local Stocks and Mutual Funds, Daily Stocks Recaps, Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange rates and Commodities.

The new system will feature a self-service option that will allow for easy real-time customization of your local stocks lists, allowing for more flexibility around any changes that need to be made throughout the year.

Modules also will no longer be linked together but instead will be delivered as individual graphics for your use and mix as your news hole allows for each day. This is to give customers greater flexibility in how they use the product.

Some modules,including Centerpiece, Industry/Company Spotlight, Story Stocks, Week Ahead and Today, will no longer be available after Jan. 3.

These product changes are being made to enhance and modernize the product and are based on customer feedback and usage data. The modules that will remain available are the most popular so you will still be able to keep delivering the dara points that your readrs look for today under the new system.

More details to come, but if you have any immediate questions please contact Barry Bedlan at bbedlan@ap.org

Helpful Utilities

Adobe Reader WinZip

Fonts

All font files are compressed. You will need Stuffit Expander or WinZip to unstuff the font files. Fractions
HelFrac Win|Mac
AP HelFrac font
HelLight Win|Mac
AP HelLightFrac font
HelDark Mac
AP HelDarkFrac font
HelWide Win|Mac
AP HelWideFrac font
HelCond Win|Mac
AP HelCondFrac font
FrankGoth Win|Mac
AP FrankGothFrac font
Futura Win|Mac
AP Futura font
BellCent Win|Mac
AP BellCent font Dingbats
AP StocksDingbats and ZapfDingbats TT and OTF
AP StocksDingbats font
AP Glyphs TT and OTF
AP Glyphs font
AP Quintiles TT and OTF
AP Quintiles font
AP Bars TT and OTF
AP Bars font

Downloads

The Grand Central Stocks (GCS) service provides customized tables(as delimited text files) that are delivered to members via FTP for use in QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, or "Front-End" pagination systems. A typical setup uses the AP StocksCap software to download the files, and the AP StocksPage XT or PLN to flow the data into QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign templates.

The AP StocksPage XT or PLN is available for QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. Please see below for Operating System and Pagination software versionspecifics.

Please contact the Markets Department for software download and installation assistance.

AP StocksCap FTP

The AP StocksCap software is available for use on the Macintosh and Windows computing platforms.

Macintosh software is provided in the .zip archive format. Windows software is provided in the .zip archive format. You will need a utility able to open the archive format appropriate to your computing platform.

Documentation and Notes

Please note that FTP delivery on a Macintosh is currently limited to machines that are connected directly to the Internet without passing through a proxy server. Also, if your organization has a network firewall, it must allow FTP communication to the AP Markets FTP site.

Quark XTensions*

The AP StocksPage XT is available for QuarkXPress. Please see below for Operating System and Pagination software version.

*Please be advised that if you wish to use the AP StocksPage Xtension for Quark 7, 8 or 9 plug-ins, your tables will have to be re-coded. Please contact the Markets Department for assistance before using the XTension for QuarkXPress 7, 8 and 9.

AP StocksPage QuarkXPress

Adobe Plug-Ins

The AP StocksPage PLN is available for Adobe InDesign. Please see below for Operating System and Pagination software version.

Please contact the Markets Department for assistance before switching from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign.

AP StocksPage Adobe In Design Back to top
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