Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook with InDesign for PDF

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Hendy,
You could import DocBook XML into InDesign, just as you can any other XML. 
But you have to set up all the styles in InDesign for the elements you 
import.  I don't know of anyone who has done that.

Regarding using InDesign as a design tool for an FO stylesheet, I don't see 
how it would be much help.  The XEP tools doesn't create an XSL-FO 
stylesheet, it creates XSL-FO from InDesign content.

I'm not clear what shortcut you are looking for here.  InDesign is great 
for one-off documents, DocBook is better for producing larger volumes of 
content in a standardized format.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hendy Irawan" <gauldong@gmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 7:43 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] DocBook with InDesign for PDF


> Dear DocBook experts,
>
> Has anyone had experience with DocBook and Adobe InDesign CS2?
>
> It seems relatively easy to make "dynamic" (XML-based) business cards
> using InDesign but since DocBook is a very complex language I'm not
> exactly sure if this is doable.
>
> If "rendering" DocBook documents in InDesign seems unapproachable,
> maybe we could use InDesign merely as a design tool for FO stylesheet?
>
> I found this from RenderX:
> http://www.renderx.com/tools/inx2fo.html
>
> It can convert InDesign document to FO... which may be useful to aid
> designing the FO stylesheet? But again, due to DocBook's XSL-FO
> stylesheet complexity.... this gives me the creeps also.
>
> Please advise or share your experiences... Thank you.
>
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