Keeping a starting point for the next poster
When we were reviewing our design files, I asked the agent to include the flyers and other designs we might want to change later.
On 20 October, while we were working through our design files, I added something to the request. The menus and television screens were only part of what we had made. I wanted the flyers and other designs backed up too, so there would be a starting point when we next needed a poster.
A finished image is useful when it is time to display or print something. For a later change, I also wanted to keep the material behind it. The agent gathered the non-menu designs into a local folder with the source pages and the files they needed. The collection included A4 and A5 flyers, an opening-hours page and a set of Sold Out stamps.
There were twenty HTML pages in the recovered collection. The agent kept the existing designs and adjusted a small number of script references in two pages so they could find the local copies. That was a specific repair to the saved material. It did not amount to redesigning the collection.
The agent then opened the pages in the browser and checked that their content and images loaded. It also compared the packaged archive with the folder it came from. These checks mattered because a folder full of filenames would not have shown whether the designs could still be opened or whether something had been left out of the package.
There were still limits to the result. We had not completed a move to a new design platform or demonstrated an edit-and-save workflow there. The older flyers also needed their dates, prices and wording checked before anyone used them again. Saving their source did not make their old information current.
What we had at the end was a local collection that had been opened and checked, with a matching archive. The next poster had not been made. But when that request came, the existing design material would be there to inspect and work from, alongside a clear record of what still needed checking.
