Hi Hendy,
You could import DocBook XML into InDesign, just as you can any other XML.
But you have to set up all the styles in InDesign for the elements you
import. I don't know of anyone who has done that.
Regarding using InDesign as a design tool for an FO stylesheet, I don't see
how it would be much help. The XEP tools doesn't create an XSL-FO
stylesheet, it creates XSL-FO from InDesign content.
I'm not clear what shortcut you are looking for here. InDesign is great
for one-off documents, DocBook is better for producing larger volumes of
content in a standardized format.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
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From: "Hendy Irawan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 7:43 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] DocBook with InDesign for PDF
Dear DocBook experts,
Has anyone had experience with DocBook and Adobe InDesign CS2?
It seems relatively easy to make "dynamic" (XML-based) business cards
using InDesign but since DocBook is a very complex language I'm not
exactly sure if this is doable.
If "rendering" DocBook documents in InDesign seems unapproachable,
maybe we could use InDesign merely as a design tool for FO stylesheet?
I found this from RenderX:
http://www.renderx.com/tools/inx2fo.html
It can convert InDesign document to FO... which may be useful to aid
designing the FO stylesheet? But again, due to DocBook's XSL-FO
stylesheet complexity.... this gives me the creeps also.
Please advise or share your experiences... Thank you.
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Hendy Irawan
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