Status of the picture book

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

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.
>
> ===
>
> 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.
>
> ===
>
>> 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?

--g

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