Indesign / XML question

Discussion in 'OS X and OS X Apps' started by danieldy, Oct 18, 2004.

  1. danieldy

    danieldy Member

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    Hi folks,

    A friend of mine who works for a magazine in China e-mailed me the other day asking for help. I had no clue how to even begin to solve her problem so I decided to post it here. I pasted a chunk of her message below. Can anyone help? Thank you!


    "I need help with a technical matter.  We’re using InDesign here at the magazine, and need to import a database document in xml (we think it might be created using a database program Delphi?).  We can create an xml document, and we can export it into InDesign.  The problem right now is that once we’ve got it in InDesign, it’s not editable.  
     
  2. peter_ob

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    I'm not familiar with Delphi but if they can convert the document within Delphi as an InDesign friendly format like tiff, eps, pdf or photoshop before exporting to InDesign that would be the way to go.
     
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    InDesign has a "Structure" pane where imported XMLs are placed. You can format/edit XMLs there by mapping tags to characters or paragraph style just like the story editor. Go to View menu and choose Structure. Hope this helps.

    ~hacskaw

    [Edited on 10-18-2004 by hacksaw]
     

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