Objectives:
This one day Adobe authorised course is for experienced users of InDesign who wish to explore InDesign's powerful support for importing and exporting XML. These features allow you to publish existing InDesign content to almost any media. The course covers adding XML tags to InDesign documents and exporting the contents to an XML file - this can then be reformatted for the web, mobile devices, eBooks or other InDesign documents
Understanding XML tags
Using the tags palette
Applying tags to graphics frames
Applying tags to text frames
Applying tags to blocks of text
Using bracketed tags
Creating your own set of tags
Importing XML files into InDesign
Setting up a document for importing XML tags
Setting up your tagging structure
Using the Import XML command
Specifying whether imported elements should replace existing content or
not
Appending imported content to existing content
Working with untagged elements
Tagging an InDesign document
XML tags vs tagged text
Using the New Tags command
Editing tags
Importing and exporting graphics for XML
Adding tags based on PDF structure tags
XML terminology and structure
Understanding structure: using sequential and hierarchical relationships
Using parental and child elements
Using sibling elements
Dragging and dropping elements
Understanding attributes
Working with page items
Preparing a document for export
Mapping styles and tags for XML
The Map Styles to Tags dialogue box
Matching style names to tag names
Using Structure View to revise the levels of hierarchy
Using the Export command
InDesign and other applications
Using Adobe Acrobat structure tags
Using Article, Figure and Artifact
Questions and answers
Castalia, 49 Bisterne Avenue, London, E17 3QR. Tel: 020 8926 1564. Fax: 020 8923 7952
