I realised recently that in the changeover to my new workstation, and the change to new operating system versions, my entire workflow for producing a Surfing The Deathline page art errata fix was broken.
Worse still, I couldn’t fit the entire thing in my head at once, so there was nothing for it, but to start mapping the whole thing out.
The process:
- Adobe Indesign CS5.
- Output all pages to individual .pdf files
- Adobe Photoshop CS5.
- Convert each page to .png, and .jpg files
- Automator Workflow.
- Rename files and copy them to the appropriate development folders
- Chronosync Workflow.
- Copy a subset of files to be used in the extract versions to the appropriate extract development folders.
A thought that occurs is to put the entire process into the Virtual Machine I’m using to run the Adobe apps, so that they’re sealed off against change.