On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Max Spevack wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Ian Weller wrote:
* Approve mockup of page designs
* Compile images and stories
* Place images and stories in book
* Proof stories for typography and content
* Pressure FPL to write foreword
* Approve photo placement
* Create index of people in back
* Other last-minute checks
* CMYK-ify PDFs
* Publish
* ???
* Profit!
My only experience with anything like this is being the editor of my high
school's news "magazine" which was about 90 pages long and came out 4 times a
year.
We had a layout process that involved having a mockup of every single page
that started out as a description of what would be on the page.
Each page had an owner responsible for the content for the page, and the
mockup was slowly updated as content came in.
There was a team that made sure that layout felt consistent across the whole
thing -- not that every page is exactly the same, but that there's a
consistent look and feel.
There was a team that was in charge of editing and finalizing content as it
came in, giving the consitent voice to the final product.
What Ian is suggesting feels pretty similar to that.
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Let's start by drawing a line in the sand of the Meeting on Tuesday March
10th. Where do we want the picture book to be by then?
Let's assume the book is 100 pages. I'd suggest that we have a list that
describes every single page in the format given above, from the front cover
to the back cover.
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No way in hell we're getting this done by F11 so F12 Beta is my target for
being published right now.
Some of Marketing's deadlines are tied to a release, and some are tied to
"whenever they are done". This is in the latter category.
So back in my undergraduate days, I did *exactly this job* for NCSU
periodicals. I produced the John Donne Journal
(http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/jdj/) for a number of years.
We used Pagemaker for layout. Can I presume that we will be using
Scribus?
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