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miskairal · 08. Feb 2011, 09:15 PM

Hi all,
I have to work on a newsletter (for printing) with a workmate who is fantastic at losing/corrupting/deleting her work. In the past it was done in microsoft publisher but I don't have that at home (and don't want it) and neither does she. I looked at Scribus but feel it might be too much for her so then I went for a .doc format as she has Oo and I have Softmaker Office.

However she's not good at keeping pages as pages and has stuff she's added vanish onto pages below then I have to spend ages fixing it (although that is no longer an issue as she has managed to corrupt the whole file and yesterday evening tells me the whole USB drive is now empty!)

What I'd like is a portable, shareable document creation software that would allow each page of the newsletter to be actually separate files that could be viewed and worked on in tabs.

Also if anyone has any suggestions on how I can setup some sort of autotransfer of the USB drive contents onto her computer BEFORE she works on it then copies it all back into a different directory when she's finished that might save my sanity

Thanks for any help or advice.

Ritho · 09. Feb 2011, 06:32 AM

For the latter part of your question I would suggest a versioning software, like AutoVer http://beanland.net.au/autover/ it is also portable. Also you could use a simple synchronization program to copy the contents on to her computer.

If you want more detail on how I would set it up, just ask.

miskairal · 09. Feb 2011, 07:58 PM

Thanks Ritho, this could be good for the backup side of things.

eyeb · 12. Feb 2011, 06:23 AM

not an exact solution, but I think dropbox has a feature for multiple versions of a file, so you could upload to it and edit/save to it. if you need to go back to old version then it'll be possible too

miskairal · 13. Feb 2011, 06:31 AM

Thanks. Will look into it but we live in the bush and our internet access is on very limited data downloads and this workmate just shoves in 30 photos without resizing them from their 2-3MB file size

It might even be the cause of the file corruption....just too big??

08. Feb 2011, 09:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
miskairal Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Qld, Australia Posts: 129	Tabbed Pages Hi all, I have to work on a newsletter (for printing) with a workmate who is fantastic at losing/corrupting/deleting her work. In the past it was done in microsoft publisher but I don't have that at home (and don't want it) and neither does she. I looked at Scribus but feel it might be too much for her so then I went for a .doc format as she has Oo and I have Softmaker Office. However she's not good at keeping pages as pages and has stuff she's added vanish onto pages below then I have to spend ages fixing it (although that is no longer an issue as she has managed to corrupt the whole file and yesterday evening tells me the whole USB drive is now empty!) What I'd like is a portable, shareable document creation software that would allow each page of the newsletter to be actually separate files that could be viewed and worked on in tabs. Also if anyone has any suggestions on how I can setup some sort of autotransfer of the USB drive contents onto her computer BEFORE she works on it then copies it all back into a different directory when she's finished that might save my sanity Thanks for any help or advice.

09. Feb 2011, 06:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ritho Foundation Editor Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 1,391	For the latter part of your question I would suggest a versioning software, like AutoVer http://beanland.net.au/autover/ it is also portable. Also you could use a simple synchronization program to copy the contents on to her computer. If you want more detail on how I would set it up, just ask. __________________ The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention. Last edited by Ritho; 09. Feb 2011 at 06:45 AM.

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09. Feb 2011, 07:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
miskairal Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Qld, Australia Posts: 129	Thanks Ritho, this could be good for the backup side of things.

12. Feb 2011, 06:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
eyeb Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Planet X Posts: 487	not an exact solution, but I think dropbox has a feature for multiple versions of a file, so you could upload to it and edit/save to it. if you need to go back to old version then it'll be possible too

13. Feb 2011, 06:31 AM	#5 (permalink)
miskairal Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Qld, Australia Posts: 129	Thanks. Will look into it but we live in the bush and our internet access is on very limited data downloads and this workmate just shoves in 30 photos without resizing them from their 2-3MB file size It might even be the cause of the file corruption....just too big??