Flatplan

The flatplan is a page overview of the entire magazine or printed material, as used in an editorial. Previously, the layout of the magazine was really made on a flatplan. The editor poked the pages on a shelf so that all employees could see how the magazine was classified. When an ad has been made or canceled, or came to urgent news editor could the pages in a different place prick and still keep track of the content. Nowadays, this classification is done digitally. For this specific software exists, but planning can be done in a flowsheet document can consult the employees. On the shelf you can see where the different sections, topics or advertisements are located, each of which can have its own layout style or layout. This could include the cover, the preface, news, interviews, various themed articles, preview of the next issue ... Using the board you get a good picture of the structure of the magazine and the templates (templates) or master pages that you will need this to make separate sections, each of which can have its own style. The individual templates can be reused later for pages with the same basic layout or later articles.

In French one speaks of a chemin de fer: as the train rides on the rails, so the magazine follows the structure editor gives it.