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Håkan Bergman	Friday 18 June 2010 2:51:25 am Hello, I've been looking for the indesign plugin that enables you to export indesign xml from your articles just like in this webinar: http://ez.no/ezpublish/ez_publish_webinars/multi_channel_content_delivery_with_ez_publish It looked easy enough in the video to "just enable the indesign plugin". But I've been searching for indesign extension/plugin without any luck. Is there a dedicated plugin for indesign as shown in the webinar or is there another plugin/extension that is used to export the article xml to indesign? Best regards, Håkan Bergman
Gabriele Francescotto	Friday 18 June 2010 10:15:46 am Hi Håkan, as far as I know, at the moment there's no any official extension for eZ publish and InDesign, but I think that there is some solution around the world, that developers and eZ partners integrated for their customers. As Opencontent, we have also implemented a very simple XML-based solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdf0hISRaLg (from the 2nd minute) it works, but it's really nothing special; I'm also very interested to see other experiences and extensions. All the best, gabriele francescotto OpenContent [free software solutions] via Verdi 19, 38100 Trento (TN) Italy www.opencontent.it skype : gabricocek1 twitter: gabricocek
Neo Pixel	Wednesday 18 August 2010 5:17:08 am On the reverse... What do I have to do to an Indesign file so can drag and drop it into ezpublish and make it render a page/article in ezpublish? Asking stupid questions so you don't have to!
Gabriele Francescotto	Thursday 19 August 2010 1:18:01 am Hi Neo, it depends a lot by your customer's workflow and by some precondition. From my experience, if: the structure of your customer InDesign's templates are based on boxes your customer is available to “tag” every single box in his InDesign templates the customer can manage his activity using a limited number of templates then you can export the content from an InDesign page to an XML file (manually or automatically, using InDesign server), whose structure can be something like: <page> <item> <title>...</title> <body>...</body> </item> <item> <title>...</title> <body>...</body> </item> </page> from which is very easy to create eZ objects (just see: http://projects.ez.no/data_import) gabriele OpenContent [free software solutions] via Verdi 19, 38100 Trento (TN) Italy www.opencontent.it skype : gabricocek1 twitter: gabricocek
Neo Pixel	Tuesday 14 September 2010 2:08:06 am Hi Gabriele Thanks for that information. It's much appreciated. Now... where do I get my hands on the indesign plugin?! :) Asking stupid questions so you don't have to!