The level of editions organizing is determined by number of publishing, number of layers and sharing, method of placing ads, number of masters, and number of edition templates.
The most frequent cases
You publish only one edition in each turn (daily, weekly, monthly, etc). On every page the content is unique (not copied from any other page). Pages are generated from a plan, that books also the ads. The ads are placed on a separate layer. The required masters may vary, from default three (left, right, double) + front page master, to one master per section, etc. The required edition template is typically one, containing all masters, but no pages. |
Other cases
You publish only one edition in each turn (daily, weekly, monthly, etc). On every page the content is unique (not copied from any other page). Ads are placed on the pages manually by the same operators who make up the editorial parts of pages, so you need one layer only. The required masters may vary, from default three (left, right, double) + front page master, to one master per section, etc. The required edition templates may vary from 1 (always the same), or different for every turn or group (one for Monday, one for Tuesday and so on). |
You publish more editions in each turn (daily, weekly, monthly, etc). On every page the content is generally unique (not copied from any other page), but on change pages some content may be duplicated from other editions. Ads may be placed on the pages manually by the same operators who make up the editorial parts of pages, so you need one layer only, or may be imported from ads planning system, so you need two layers - one for editorial, another for ads. The required masters may vary, from default three (left, right, double) + front page master, to one master per section, etc. The required edition templates may vary from 1 (always the same), or different for every turn or group (one for Monday, one for Tuesday and so on). The change pages may be part of the edition template, or you can create them on the fly, by copying pages from the first edition to other editions. It depends, basically, whether all additional editions have different page dateline (in such case you have to reprint all of them for each edition) or not (in such case you need to print only change pages). |
You publish more editions in each turn (daily, weekly, monthly, etc). On some pages the content is unique (not copied from any other page), on some pages the content may be shared between editions, on some pages the content may be duplicated from other editions. Ads may be placed on the pages manually by the same operators who make up the editorial parts of pages, so you need one layer only, or may be imported from ads planning system, so you need more layers - one for editorial unique content, one for editorial shared content, one for ads. Place on the shared layers the content to be shared between editions "as-is". Make duplicates of the content to appear in more editions, but with different size or format. The required masters may vary, from default three (left, right, double) + front page master, to one master per section, etc. The required edition templates may vary from 1 (always the same), or different for every turn or group (one for Monday, one for Tuesday and so on). The change pages may be part of the edition template, or you can create them on the fly, by copying pages from the first edition to other editions. It depends, basically, whether all additional editions have different page dateline (in such case you have to reprint all of them for each edition) or not (in such case you need to print only change pages). |