Hi All
This is for a community magazine, with both editorial & small ads content using Scribus 1.5.6.1 on Windows 10.
We are a brand new team of three volunteers with v little DTP experience.
We need some simple rules so we can all contribute to an issue and it will still fit together.
Any Do's and Don'ts for such team working, (esp. under Covid restrictions), would be more than welcome.
As yet, we don't really have a defined house style.
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Small Ads
I find our small ads each need 3 or 4 frames: a bounded box background, 1 or more text frames and possibly an image frame as well. I plan to bind these 3 or 4 components per advert together as a Group, before they are Locked.
Once a page is assembled, its SLA can be imported into the main issue which will end up with many such objects. Should we worry about synchronising the Style library between the team?
The system allocates names to each frame & group, and I can see those names by snooping in the SLA xml.
The actual names seem to have no purpose as far as users are concerned.
Q1) Can I safely forget about frame & group names? Or have I missed something?
My other question is really about STYLE naming standards
I believe Style names are the only Scribus names potentially meaningful to us as users.
Well named styles will make for easier use as time goes by, and as personnel change.
Q2) Could anyone suggest a Style naming standard and an associated level of detail each discrete style should have?
I realise Q2 is a bit of a woolly question.
At one extreme one could build lots of very explicit styles
and at the other maybe just name the Font family, the Reg/Bold etc category + the point size.... e.g. "Arial Reg 12pt"
Maybe the less detailed option would facilitate experimentation with the changing styles en mass?
We expect our editorial articles to have longer paragraphs, while the small ads will be all about fitting the wording into very limited space, maximising impact and controlling line wrap.
Any suggestions of good fonts to use?
(I'm more a techie than a designer- Excel macros & spreadsheets are much more familiar territory for me)
Thanks in advance
spilly