[scribus] workflow for a team

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Hi Martin,

I'm not a professional in working with a team, but work in a loose team, 
and my idea would be to try importing pdfs from the team members.

This would only confuse page numbers if they use the wrong ones, but 
Scribus can easily import pdfs as pictures, and you could easily add 
correct page numbers or other elements of the template on top of them. 
As they behave like pictures, you could cut off part of them and add 
layout elements there.

 > 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.
 >


You could even use another tool to simply "glue" pdfs together, the 
drawback here would be you had no control over the pages, and the pdfs 
would have to be "right-to-print" pages from each team member.

I use pdf import for any layouted documents from other people who send 
in articles in our church monthly, for example the calendar or readily 
layouted announcements, and it works great.

Rolf