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Newsletter technical details

The Newsletter of the Hitcham and Taplow Preservation Society is published twice per year, with spring and autumn editions. It is an A4 magazine-format production with either 12 or 16 pages.

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Production process

  1. Articles and pictures are submitted by e-mail to the editor, or (preferably) directly into the HTPS TWiki-based Wiki.
  2. The editor chooses articles, writes the Editorial etc on the Wiki.
  3. Initial copy-editing is done on the Wiki.
  4. Text and pictures are taken from the Wiki into local files for typesetting
  5. An initial layout is made using Scribus - usually with more pages than the final product so that the length of articles can be measured. The result of this is a PDF which is placed on the Wiki for comment by the editorial team.
  6. Final copy-editing is done either on the Wiki or in Scribus to make the articles fit the available space.
  7. The layout is tidied up, pictures are placed and sized in Scribus. Another PDF is made for final proof-reading.
  8. Corrections are applied, widows and orphans dealt with, and lines with unsightly spacing are adjusted in Scribus.
  9. A final PDF is produced and sent to the printer for a paper proof to be produced: this is used mainly to check colour reproduction.
  10. The final print run is produced on an HP Indigo machine.
  11. Any last-minute changes are copied back to the Wiki to form the online version of the Newsletter.

See also the Production Timeline