[scribus] workflow for a team

[Gregory Pittman]

On 07/31/2013 04:44 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> 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
> 

It might be that Rolf's suggestions are a bit advanced for your setting.
They might even be tricky for those with some experience with Scribus.
If you can follow what he says, it is certainly possible that way.

I think I would be more inclined to work with separate Scribus files,
since pages can be easily imported and any necessary changes easily
made. Coordinating page numbers and other style issues is presumably a
very important aspect. What you require I think is a high degree of
organization by those supervising this, more so than the teams. I don't
know if you use Master Pages, but you would need to supply the smaller
teams with all the appropriate MPs that they need, as well as Paragraph
and Character Styles, and of course these can be easily imported from
prior work in Scribus.

Especially when people are working on different time frames and at
different sites, there will need to be attention toward a consistent
look from one article to another, so someone of course has to supervise
this. My guess is that you don't want to be faced with a lot of rework,
which can be very time-consuming.

Having said all this, it sounds like a very interesting, some might say
exciting idea that you have. We'll be highly interested in the results
of this and how you managed to make it work, so keep us posted.

Greg