«BatchXSLT for InDesign»
«BatchXSLT for InDesign» converts InDesign documents to understandable 'all purpose' XML and HTML with a mouse click. Exported data can be viewed and navigated as a flip page e-book website in any Browser.
Cost-efficiency, quality, flexibility and speed are most important to all editors when publishing InDesign document content on the Internet.
BatchXSLT for InDesign's main purpose is to significantly reduce or to completely eliminate manual work needed to create text and image content suitable for web and database applications. «BatchXSLT for InDesign» knows without additional configuration how to merge a newspaper's text elements to articles, how to convert high resolution EPS and TIFF images to JPEG and how to associate them to articles.
Configurable and flexible
«BatchXSLT for InDesign» creates standardized "All-Purpose-XML"."All-Purpose-XML" simply means, that it is suitable for almost any further application and purpose. The very rich tagged XML output contains enough information for any web, e-paper, database or CD application.
In addition, the created XML and HTML data can be viewed and navigated in a browser as a flipping page eBook. Such an eBook is based on plain XML (or HTML) and Javascript and therefore is more flexible compared to eBooks based on flash.
Many options are available for example to set the size of the flipping book, to create active links from www-addresses and from hyperlinks. Stories, spread over multiple pages, may automatically be split at a page boundary. This enables consumers to read novels, scientific papers and any other story in a page per page mode. Furthermore, the Javascript and XSL source code may be edited to change the behavior and the functionality of an e-Book.
«BatchXSLT for InDesign» is a powerful, flexible and expandable XML Transformer.
According to requirement, XML programers may create their own target format from the intermediary well structured XML file format. Virtually any number of output formats may be created to match a user's needs. Starting at dedicated HTML, XML, RTF, DocBook and any other text based format up to a direct transfer into a database. Own XSL transforms as well as external Java or Javascript functions and libraries can easily be added.
How to distribute such XML data
There are an endless number of ways to deliver XML and HTML data to end-consumers. One possible way is as an ePaper (e-book) and is shown at the ePaper demo site at www.ePaperArchives.com. This site shows several on-line publications including active shop connections, full-text-search over multiple objects and custom-made solutions by system integrators worldwide.Considerable advantages for users
A widely held belief expresses, that InDesign already provides the tools and software to create XML, JPEGs or HTML.And the answer is: It does. However, in almost all cases this is by far not enough: labor- and cost-intensive and too slow.
Explained on a real world example when a daily newspaper has to be published on the Internet:
The starting position is always identical: Any number of document pages containing images attached to articles have to be converted.
The demands of subsequent applications is identical in most cases: An XML file representing the document's content - the articles - including to articles attached images as JPEGs. Furthermore, according to requirements, all pages as JPEGs and as PDFs.
InDesign provides the tools to create JPEGs and PDFs from pages, and, with a lot of work for each document, the textual information can be exported to XML.
InDesign does not provide the tools to export a document as a whole. This is absolutely essential – especially for web applications.
«BatchXSLT for InDesign» exports a document as a functional unity.
The resulting XML and HTML output file contains information about articles content (text styled by an external CSS), to articles attached images, article positions on the page (most important for ePaper applications), linked page JPEGs and page PDF, a linked and editable external Cascading Style Sheet.
More Information and Download
The fully functional 30-days demo package is available online.For OSX: «BatchXSLT for InDesign» Disk image
For Windows: «BatchXSLT for InDesign» Installer
The manual as a flip page eBook with "Tips and Tricks" and a reference section on exported elements and attributes.
The software package also contains image converters, database and FTP transfer tools and a Full-Text Search module based on PHP5 and MySQL5.
More information is available at the «BatchXSLT for Indesign» Product Site at www.aiedv.ch
System requirements
«BatchXSLT for InDesign» runs on any computer like Windows, Unix, Mac OSX with Java 1.5 or newer and with InDesign CS4, CS3 and CS2Price: Euro 580.–
