> Dear all, > > we are working with about ten young people in training. We are > producing > a semi-regular 20 page magazine in Africa. See success stories 2012 > for > more context. > > > Since our young people are advancing, we soon want them to be in > charge > of entire pages (articles). We are working under OpenSuse Linux. And I > want each user to only work under his own login (they have sometimes > accidentally deleted other people's work...). > > I am looking for ideas for a good workflow. We do not have a very > strict > template (apart from margins and some guidelines), and the magazine is > still developing. I want to give freedom for creativity and want > articles to look unique. > > I want each team member - if possible - to prepare one or two pages in > his user account. And the master layouter would them assemble the > final > magazine and get the PDF ready for printing. People are working on > different computers, depending on availability. Each is only coming to > the office for a few hours per week. But we got a network and a nice > NAS, so getting access to files is not the main problem. > > We are working with about ten layers for text, illustrations, > photo-captions, etc. So copy and paste is not impossible but not easy > (I > found out that using the Outline-window, I can at least select and > copy > across layers, but pasting would still dump everything into one layer > only). > I have tried Import Pages and that looks promising but results are > still mildly loose. I guess we need a more controlled template > concerning baseline-etc if the import shall present an exact "clone" > of > the work done elsewhere. > > > I got most of the online and paper documentation available to me. So > here I am mainly hoping for some pointers from people who got actual > experience with teamwork under Linux. If you tell me that processes > and > tools work well for your team, I will read up on those and try here.
You probably don't want to go off at a tangent, but if you had the development Scribus-1.5.0 you can very nicely import pdfs made in say Ver 1.4.3 or for that matter, Libre Office or most of the other pdf generating programs. -- Owen
