InDesign CS5 and XML

Adobe Authorised CS5 Courses

This one day Adobe authorised course explores InDesign?s powerful support for importing and exporting XML allowing you to publish existing InDesign content to almost any media. This course is ideal for anyone needing to repurpose print material for the web quickly and easily. You will cover how to add XML tags to InDesign documents and export the contents to an XML file which can be reformatted for the web, mobile devices, eBooks or even other InDesign documents.

Course Description

Understanding how XML
can improve publishing workflow
• Using the tags panel
• Applying tags to graphics frames
• Applying tags to text frames
• Applying tags to blocks of text
• Using bracketed tags
• Creating your own set of tags

Setting up an InDesign document to import XML
• Setting up a document for importing XML tags
• Setting up your tagging structure
• Using the Import XML command
• Specifying whether imported elements should replace existing content or not
• Appending imported content to existing content

Preparing an existing InDesign document to export to XML
• XML tags vs tagged text
• Using the New Tags command
• Editing tags
• Importing and exporting graphics for XML
• Adding tags based on PDF structure tags
• Creating automatic layouts using the XML rules engine

XML terminology and structure
• Understanding structure: using sequential and hierarchical relationships
• Using parental elements and child elements
• Using sibling elements
• Understanding attributes

Exporting InDesign content to different media
• Mapping styles and tags for XML
• The Map Styles to Tags dialog box
• Matching style names to tag names
• Using Structure View
• The Cross Media Export commands

Automation using XML
• Using XML to synchronise data between multiple InDesign files

InDesign and other applications
• Using Adobe Acrobat structure tags
• Using Article, Figure and Artifact
• Exporting InDesign Markup Language (IDML)

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