On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:37 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:11 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering if anyone here uses scribus as a means to publish a > > magazine, MyOSS Mag (http://mag.my-opensource.org) uses it for their > > Online free mag. > > > > How are you guys doing it?
> - have all editorial done in word processors, subbed, and only > then imported into Quark I guess I have to learn how to sub the text in gedit so that it can be imported into scribus as it without needing for it to be formatted. > - Use one file per page to avoid access conflicts. Our printers > want one PDF file per page anyway, so this works well. We'd > just integrate the pages in Adobe Acrobat if they wanted a > single document. We don't do print versions, only online so this isn't too much of a hassle. The problem I can see is as Louis mentioned is to count the words to allocate the proper # of pages per story. This seems, to me, counterintuitive. But it can be do-able still. > > - Create ads as EPS files then import them into the pages. This > helps further separate the various chunks of work and let > people work on an ad while the page with that ads is being > worked on by someone else. > This might not work so great in Scribus because linked EPS/PDF > files are presently rasterised on import. If that's OK for I've no idea what that means. :-) > Currently, no equivalents are available for Scribus. A copy management > system has been discussed and there is quite a bit of interest in it, > it's just a matter of finding the time and people to write it. A similar > situation applies with "shared document" work, WebDAV support, > document-in-database support, "externally linked text," etc. > Right now, I'd probably use a shared filesystem - with reliable locking > - and one file per page, and I'd do as much of my copy-editing as > possible in external tools. It's not something I have to worry about > since my Scribus use is currently just for myself. That's not going to be too much of an issue if this is a DTP house. However, we're a collection of misfits binded together to get something out for the FOSS community. So, I'm searching for some way to share the .sla and the graphics/text etc across the Internet. WebDAV would be nice of sorts but it doesn't solve the locking issue. > Some sort of 'sla-diff' and 'sla-merge' would be awfully cool, > though. Ditto > I'd be very interested in hearing how others go about things. Some > information on various workflows, workflow options, desirable program > features to improve workflows (and what folks feel is missing now) > might be worth putting up on the wiki. Well, right now, it's a 1 man show when it comes to the editing and putting things together, so I can't help much in this respect. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:00:53 up 2 days, 13:03, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.13, 0.17
