![]() To be noted, 4 pages deal with XSL transformation, a very rarely discussed topic.īooks are great but v ideo tutorials are even better ! Loïc Aigon : InDesign XML Import at Video2Brainĭedicated to french speaking viewers, this tutorial is one of the most complete you may ever find. Once that said, there are 40 pages waiting for you. A book written by David Blatner, one of the owners of the InDesign Secrets website, also InDesign expert and Olav Martin Kvern, a former responsible of the InDesign Developer team is a warranty of quality. In other words, anything you will learn here will still be usable in CC 2014. XML import feature did not moved much since then. David Blatner & Olav Martin Kvern : Real World Adobe InDesign CS2ĬS2, mmm that seems old-school. Gonna get started ? Buy the book eyes closed. Jim does the impossible and transform complex concepts into simple yet effective exercices. “A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML” is the most educative book dealing with InDesign XML import. ![]() She is also close to the InDesign engineers and keep an eye on any possible improvement done to the XML import engine. Publishers looking for XML info, add this book to your collection ! Jim Maivald : A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML Frequently updated, Dorothy’s book mostly targets on DTD validation, a very sensitive topic for the publishing industry. Dorothy Hopkins : XML & InDesignĪ true expert for InDesign & XML in the publishing area. She is one of a few to have introduced the possibility of linking paragraph a/o character styles right into the XML structure thanks to the aid:pstyle and aid:cstyle attributes Also, you can find attributes for creating native indesign tables on the fly with XML.ĭon’t think these documents are outdated although related to CS3. Still a very valuable resource. Cari Jansen : XML & InDesignĪdobe Certified Instructor, Cari released several XML Import cheatsheets. Let’s thank them for their efforts and contributions. A few years ago, well, it was complicated. Learn how to import XML is rather easy these day. You need to master InDesign at first, xml at second. This quick introduction demonstrates that using XML import is not straightforward. As a matter of fact, as XML is text, any changes will reflow the whole content. Just avoid the xml updates unless you like to live hard and spend time in fixing the damages. No magic here, it’s programming above all. XSLT will tansform the input structure on the fly to make it compliant to your layout tagging. XSLT is the only way to go though the toughest challenges. It’s likely that the raw XML structure will never match your layouts concerns. ![]() You think it was hard ? Well it’s even harder. In our case, this is thanks to a paragraph style that we can adjust the X spacing and the Y spacing of our modules with a combinations of tabs and leading ! Nothing but natural, the combo grouped objects/tagging/anchoring may lead to InDesign crash at worst, failure at best. ![]() As XML is text, any specific item positioning within the page implies to anchor the object. That’s why some layouts can become very complex. You want to repeat items ? Do that ! Thou shalt use anchored objects Whatever your layout is, you will end using an overriden master text frame from the master page. The main lesson above all is that XML is regular text. Those are the key of success ! Thou shalt use a main overriden master text frame Read the following commitments carefully. We will repeat a “module” of three InDesign objects. We intend to introduce every aliment with a combination of a name, a picture and a period of consummation. Showtime…Ĭonsider this fruits and vegetables catalog : Let me show you with an example how working with XML in InDesign is twisted. They often rush without preparation.įact is XML import is all about learning. So the client asked : can you take my XML file as data input for the catalog ? You said yes, open InDesign, imported the damn file, tried to figure it out, failed and renounced…This is a common phase for XML beginners. In this post, we are introducing the peculiarities of the XML import process and some resources for a successful training. Who wants to spend time with XML when you can do nice DPS/ePub projects ? Still, it may be worth the look. When talking about XML Import, you can easily define three groups of users :
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