We who forge words into documents lack anything as powerful as Illustrator or Photoshop are to graphics.
XML
XML should have been the solution to so many problems: just structure documents semantically and you can rejigger them any way that you want. But there is more to it than that…
I have now used the first of three days allowed to rescue content from thousands of InDesign forms. Entering the second day, I had converted each document into a nest of IDML content, and needed to build that into the database.
My task was to turn over 7500 files into a database, in which we could search, sort, and analyse – something normally viewed as requiring prolonged labour and great cost. I had just 3 days.
Once acquired, text needs to be structured and formatted. This guides you through different formats and editing options.
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