[Scribus] Text flowing advanced workflow ideas (was: Perhaps another stupid question ...)

[Pierre-Luc Auclair]

On Saturday 08 April 2006 11:24, you wrote:
> Hi Louis,
>
> I was thinking about your problem and came up with a design that I think
> would allow easy doing of this (see my comment):
>
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=245
>
> For newspaper/manazine I will suggest another approach, that is having a
> property for masters elements that allow editing.
>
> I am currently thinking about a solution that would have a complex but easy
> approach for newpapers, that is automatic flowing of text but with
> rows/columns settings. For example, I would approach this as the following:
> 1. Import text (NOT insert from frame)
> 2. Click on the top-left corner where you want to flow it (or another,
> depending on the language).
> 3. Select the "spreading", that is, the number of columns and the number of
> rows used.
>
> I also am thinking about having a solution for a shared text repository
> (like the Text Library in RFE 245 above) that would be used to streamline
> the author-->editor/reviewer-->layouter process.
>
> Tell me what you think about these ideas. :D
>
> Pierre-Luc