Re: [docbook-apps] RFE: roundtripping to/from adobe IDML

[Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com>]

I work with several publishing clients, and I think this would be 
absolutely welcomed! One of the main complaints I hear is a lack of 
control over the look and feel with XSL-FO. With this approach, I think 
many would be more willing to adopt single source DocBook, as they would 
then have a way to control look and feel for print output in InDesign, 
while also able to generate HTML, ePub, etc. formats from the same 
source XML.

Best regards,

--Scott

Scott Hudson
Senior XML Architect
Scott.Hudson@flatironssolutions.com
http://www.flatironssolutions.com


On 19-Mar-10 9:15 AM, Giuseppe Bonelli wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to ask the docbook community if there is any interest in
> a new set of XSLT for rountripping between docbook and Adobe Indesign
> CS4+.
>
> Altough InDesign is non an open solution, Adobe ha opened up its
> InDesign file format by introducing IDML, IMHO an extremely well
> thought xml rapresentation of the InDesign object model and this
> simple fact opened up new options for implementing new kind of xml
> workflows.
>
> A rountripping solution wolud be extremely useful in many traditional
> workflows, where is desiderable/more confortable to have the
> possibility to edit interactively a paginated XML content, instead of
> relying on a batch pagination process based on FO. Particularly in the
> traditional publishing industry, this roundtripping scenario would
> grately helps the adoption of docbook based XML workflows.
>
> As a reference, here are the links to the relevant IDML specs:
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/pdfs/indesign_cs4_idml_readme.pdf
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/pdfs/idml-cookbook.pdf
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/pdfs/idml-specification.pdf
>
> Disclaimer
> I do not have any connection with Adobe.
>
> regards,
>
> __peppo
>
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