Louis Desjardins wrote: > > I think coming at this in an absolute manner and in a theoric ground > doesn't help the discussion here. I come at this from the real life > scenario of having to retrieve sometimes jobs done previously when a > client tells us to pick the logo on page n in issue i from month m > without further details. Having this logo (what was the name again?) > placed in a folder named "logos" or anywhere else on the server won't > help us to know exactly if "that" image is the one my client has in > mind... But I agree, the situation can be saved (half-saved) just by > the way the collect function works now... unless we forgot to do it at > the end... or maybe we thought it was the end and we made the collect > before the real end... Doing it first would help, no questions! Not that this entirely answers the question, but attached is a little script I wrote to create a text file listing of the image frames with the complete pathname for the file, and the text frames, with the content. Since the output is a text file, it takes up only a tiny space. This is a simple script that relies on image frames' names beginning with "Image" and text frames with "Text".
Much of what this discussion is about revolves around the discipline one needs to do tasks like layout/DTP. You have to develop a workflow that is relatively foolproof and allows for unexpected interruptions that cause you to suddenly leave your work in the middle, then come back again and quickly know where you were and where everything is that you were working on. Similarly, old work needs to have an organization that is understandable months or years later. Personally, I've never liked and rarely use automatic saving because it becomes something that mentally is outside of my responsibility and so I stop thinking about it only to pay for it later. Greg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: frameslist.py Type: text/x-python Size: 1149 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070924/2fdb4fcb/attachment.py
