How property list files store your preference settings, and how to access additional features.
XML
How can I set up a dictionary of placenames, which I can then access throughout my applications?
We who forge words into documents lack anything as powerful as Illustrator or Photoshop are to graphics.
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.
