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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] DocBook with InDesign for PDF
- From: "Wiener,Marc" <Marc.Wiener@gartner.com>
- To: "Hendy Irawan" <gauldong@gmail.com>,<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:20:32 -0400
We've been struggling with exporting InDesign to XML for
several months. It is, as you say, not very sophisticated. The biggest problem
we have is that data is not always exported in the same order as it appears on
the page, e.g., a figure caption that appears before a figure will sometimes be
exported preceding the graphic and sometimes after; if there are two objects in
the block, we might get both captions preceding both graphics. We have a partial
workaround in that the InDesign InBooklet addin fixes some of the ordering
problems, but not all. We do not want to manually move items in the Structure
pane as this obviously adds time. We are working with Adobe on the problem, but
my opinion is that this is not really an XML aware
product.
Marc
On 3/22/07, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net >
wrote:
Hi
Hendy,
You could import DocBook XML into InDesign, just as you can any
other XML.
But you have to set up all the styles in InDesign for the
elements you
import. I don't know of anyone who has done
that.
I'm currently learning from the PDF documentation provided by Adobe.
For now it seems that their XML feature isn't as sophisticated as would be
required for this kind of task. :-(
It may be just easier to render to
HTML first then import the resulting HTML... :-(
Regarding
using InDesign as a design tool for an FO stylesheet, I don't see
how it
would be much help. The XEP tools doesn't create an
XSL-FO
stylesheet, it creates XSL-FO from InDesign content.
I'm not
clear what shortcut you are looking for here. InDesign is
great
for one-off documents, DocBook is better for producing larger volumes
of
content in a standardized format.
Yep, I agree with you fully.
I have no complaints with writing
DocBook documents. What I'm trying to do is easier way to design rich XSL-FO
stylesheet(s) for our DocBook documents.
Editing XSL-FO stylesheets
manually is very complex and painful. I wonder whether a visual tool such as
InDesign can be used somewhere in the toolchain...
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