On 12/05/2013 12:02 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote: > Dear list, > > a few weeks ago I had written, hoping for a brilliant idea or tool for > creating scribus-documents as a team. Nothing much came up for a workflow. > > > So for the time being, we use that fact that disc-space has become cheap: > > > We are working on OpenSuse 12.3 and we are using the official Scribus > which comes with that distro, namely Scribus 1.4.2 > > Each user is working in his own /home folder and we keep all our work in > a folder called "pour_la_sortie" which is French for "collected_for_output". > > Now the idea is that we keep a paper-list on the wall next to the main > layout computer (two full HD screens), of who was the last user to work > on the magazine. > > Then the next user will log in and just copy the entire folder into his > /home folder to continue working on those pages, where he or she is in > charge. > > > BUT: My wife just discovered that she cannot do that. Scribus had done a > nice and complete collecting-for-output. But somehow the user-rights got > assigned such that only scribus-files are accessible. > > But all fonts and all illustrations are blocked for "group" and > "others", not even reading is allowed (and reading is all the next user > would need to copy the complete folder with content). This is something > that Scribus must have done during the collecting-for-output of the > previous user, since that user had started with a blank document I believe. > > Is there a way please, to configure Scribus such, that during collection > for output the file properties are set more liberally? > > > > I bet some geek on this list will propose to "just write a script" so > that all stuff in those folders will be make read-enabled for all users. > It is just that we are linguists and I got a group of young African > trainees. And we are handing this folder around between several users. > So if you cannot do this within Scribus, please propose a script that > will "travel" with that folder and which each user can/should trigger > (preferably something that can be clicked in the explorer) before he > will log out. I believe that only root or the owner can change ownership > of files. And I bet, that many of my guys will forget to open the > ownership before they log out... > > > We have just set-up this new computer with the latest OpenSuse and we > are overdue to print our next magazine. So all help is most welcome, > even if it is a workaround. And even if I need to learn scripting... > (guess, who is root). > > I don't think Scribus has any capability of doing this on its own.
Probably something with the OS, maybe someone saved to a subfolder where the parent folder has limited permissions. This is one of those instances where knowing a simple command line command like chmod quickly takes care of this. There should also be some GUI way of doing this with a file manager. Greg
