[scribus] workflow for a team

[Owen]

> Dear all,
>
> we are working with about ten young people in training. We are
> producing
> a semi-regular 20 page magazine in Africa. See success stories 2012
> for
> more context.
>
>
> Since our young people are advancing, we soon want them to be in
> charge
> of entire pages (articles). We are working under OpenSuse Linux. And I
> want each user to only work under his own login (they have sometimes
> accidentally deleted other people's work...).
>
> I am looking for ideas for a good workflow. We do not have a very
> strict
> template (apart from margins and some guidelines), and the magazine is
> still developing. I want to give freedom for creativity and want
> articles to look unique.
>
> I want each team member - if possible - to prepare one or two pages in
> his user account. And the master layouter would them assemble the
> final
> magazine and get the PDF ready for printing. People are working on
> different computers, depending on availability. Each is only coming to
> the office for a few hours per week. But we got a network and a nice
> NAS, so getting access to files is not the main problem.
>
> We are working with about ten layers for text, illustrations,
> photo-captions, etc. So copy and paste is not impossible but not easy
> (I
> found out that using the Outline-window, I can at least select and
> copy
> across layers, but pasting would still dump everything into one layer
> only).
> 	I have tried Import Pages and that looks promising but results are
> still mildly loose. I guess we need a more controlled template
> concerning baseline-etc if the import shall present an exact "clone"
> of
> the work done elsewhere.
>
>
> I got most of the online and paper documentation available to me. So
> here I am mainly hoping for some pointers from people who got actual
> experience with teamwork under Linux. If you tell me that processes
> and
> tools work well for your team, I will read up on those and try here.





You probably don't want to go off at a tangent, but if you had the
development Scribus-1.5.0 you can very nicely import pdfs made in say
Ver 1.4.3 or for that matter, Libre Office or most of the other pdf
generating programs.


-- 
Owen