On 08/23/2012 02:19 AM, Stefan wrote: > Hi Javier, > > 2012/8/22 Javier Garc?a Alfaro <javiergalfaro at gmail.com>: >> Hi all, am editor / designer of a monthly newspaper [1] which recently began > > I take at the look of your first paper linked here > http://periodicoeleslabon.wordpress.com/ > it seems like a 24 page magazine in tabloid format (a little larger > than A4-Format). > > Same as we are doing with http://kompass.im/kompass-archiv/ This is a > 24-page newsprint magazine for pirate party in germany. > The Issues Kompass 3.2011 Killerspiele and Kompass 2.2011 Arabellion > are produced with Scribus, Later ones with Adobe InDesign. > > Within Scribus there is no support for any kind of workflow. You will > need other tools to manage page planning and authors. > > What we use for that: > > - for page planning: a standard wiki with special wiki templates. It > lives at http://wiki.piratenzeitung.de > See the planning page for our August issue here: > http://wiki.piratenzeitung.de/?title=Kompass:2012.3 > our layout guy uoploads his pdf previews to the wiki server. > > - for text editing: some pirate pads, that is a webbased text editor > for collaborative editing. We have a so-called "team-pad" at > http://artikelschmiede.piratenpad.de . We make the text good there. If > a text ist finished in the pad, we copy it into a corresponding page > in our wiki, our layout guy fetches it from there. > > - we have a weekly teleconference via mumble software. Cause we are > not in one city, but all across germany. > > Feel free to ask more questions. >
Thanks, Stefan. This suggests to me two things. Perhaps we need some pages on the wiki that give some advice about the production of magazines and newspapers, that others can use as a resource. Secondly, are there features which Scribus might add for the particular needs of those making periodicals? Greg
