Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Montag, 10. April 2006 20:44 schrieb Calum Polwart: > >> Not sure how to describe what I may want to be able to do - but I'll try >> - then you can all laugh and I can forget about it for a few years... >> >> Two of us 'edit' a newsletter. Strictly speaking my colleague edits, >> and I do the DTP. Then being an editor he gets the lay-ed out version >> and changes things... ...at the moment that's done by email, so he sends >> me an email saying - please change paragraph 4 on page 6 to... and I >> manually tweak... >> >> What I'd like to do is let him edit the sla file directly, now that >> there is a suitable windows version... In itself that's easy enough - >> there's a function to 'bundle it all up' and send it to him (can't >> remember proper name). The files are huge (60-90Mb?) so it would be on >> CD. He could edit it, re-write to CD and send back to me to do final >> DTP bits and send to printers... all a bit 'old fashioned'. He lives >> 300 miles away. >> >> So what's the modern electronic way? Can I put the files on a server >> and somehow give him access. I tend to find even with the images on a >> Samba Server I get 'missing image' messages a lot, with big red X's - >> obviously something with the Samba Path goes astray. Would scribus cope >> with a file remotely hosted? How would I host it? Would it involve >> downloading the whole 60-90Mb each and every time a file is opened? >> > provided both of you have the same fonts installed (under the same name) or, > more specifically, the fonts used in the sla file, you don't need to exchange > the images all the time. If you do the layout work and your colleague does > the text work, you can send the file back and forth without the images. What > is important is that you always save the file back to the original directory > to make sure the paths to the pictures remain intact. > If you had access to a server you could both use that, perhaps having a self-contained directory for each newsletter. As Christoph says, though, you would likely very quickly not want to waste time repeatedly sending images back and forth. Remember that the contents of a text frame can be saved as a text file, which entails considerably less overhead transporting -- could even be sent as an email attachment if not too big.
Greg
