RE: [docbook-apps] Conversion - Indesign to Docbook

["Shilpa" <shilpau@enablingdimensions.com>]

Hello everyone!

Had posted a query some days back. Here is the solution that we finally
managed to implement.

All the text in the indesign file was placed in one single frame.

-We broke this up into various frames using story editor and rectangle
frame tool.
-then imported the docbook dtd file.
-tagged each frame to the relevant tag (created wrapper tags manually
wherever required).
-exported the file as an XML document.
-added docbook tags to the exported XML file for which information was
not present in the InDesign document.
-validated the generated docbook xml using eDE (e-novative docbook
environment).

Thanks for everyone's inputs. 

Rgds,
Shilpa

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendon McKinley [mailto:Brendon.McKinley@anu.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:34 PM
To: shilpau@enablingdimensions.com; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Conversion - Indesign to Docbook

I have used Adobe Pagemaker -> export HTML (via pagemaker) -> tidy ->
DocBook doclet -> DocBook XML

Probably a bit long-winded but the PageMaker documents were large (300+
pages) and I needed to indicate pagination in the DocBook xml based on
the hardcopy version. The page breaks are indicated by comments in the
pagemaker exported html and I wrote a stylesheet that takes care of any
of the discrepancies between the docbook doclet xml and my DocBook xml
requirements. Images are a pain but my stylesheet takes care of them
once they have been exported from the pagemaker files.
You could use the same process for InDesign.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shilpa [mailto:shilpau@enablingdimensions.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 4:16 PM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps] Conversion - Indesign to Docbook


Hello!

I am a newbie to DocBook. We have an InDesign (tool from Adobe) document
and want to convert this to DocBook. Past few days we have been trying
our hands on various things. We have also done InDesign -> PDF ->
DocBook. Nothing is giving a great output.

Can someone give us some pointers on how to do this conversion?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Shilpa



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