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Subject: Re: [docbook] Software Review: InDesign + DocBook
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:50 -0500, David White wrote: > I hate not knowing as much as I need to provide good answers, > which is why I'm posting on the forums and bugging good people like you! > grin No problem David. We all need the idiot sheet once. > > I talked to our main publishing guy and he described the types of people > we have..and how they work together. > > Essentially we have writers / editors that use MS Word. They do copy... The issues trying to get WYSIWYG people to even look at pointy brackets is a people issue. Please don't approach it as a geek. It is hard, if you want to make such a change. You need classic change management approaches, an early adopter can work wonders for you. Otherwise start to look for a WYSIWYG XML editor. > > The copy goes to Layout Opportunity for XSLT. Possible approach. Generate a generic layout, leave room for customisation and personalisation. > > We have images and illustrations that get done by a seperate department. > > The images/illustrations go to Layout Joined at the same time as copy input, or later? If later, are placeholders left for them? > > Layout then brings it all together and outputs to PRINT/PDF <ignorance> Can Indesign take the PDF output from XEP or Antenna House, and adjust it, as graphic artists/typesetters etc are wont to do? </ignorance> This is the stage we can media specific processing. Needs the print|html|whatever specialist to take the styled output and apply their own magic. Can anyone help out here please? > > This works well for us because we are all in the same area in our > building..there are about 20 of us in the entire publishing department > so its been > a good structure. Sounds like a good team. > > However, we need to modernize. Due diligence on change management. Early adopters through to the 'NIH' 'good enough for grandad' brigade. Is the need agreed? Or is it felt by a minority? Does the pointy head feel the need? Is there a cost driver behind that need. Who feels the need, i.e. the entire group, or just ... a minority, shouting in the wilderness. > We have a need to get manuals into many > other languages and Frame isn't unicode and handles XML poorly. Great selling point. Jirka and others can help here on multi-lingual boilerplate, even handling n language input. How do you merge it, process it today? Let me guess (I'm a cynic) You start from scratch in n languages :-) > > Hope that helps, I will answer any questions you have as I need as much > input as I can get to make the best response I can. regards DaveP
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