> If I may, a quick question about InDesign. Can InDesign import xml > and have the information act like it does in Frame. > Background: > We use Frame as part of our software we have designed. This software > does marketing and is also able to export and then import into Frame > to create large Industrial Catalogs. Very technical with images. We > can also export and import into InDesign. However when we autoflow a > stream of data (data consisting of feature information, table > ordering information and an image) the autoflow is just one big text > block. You can't tell one product to straddle while another to fit in > column, etc., like you do with Frame. > So I teach our clients to drag the individual pieces that make up the > data into the InDesign template and individually layout their pages. > I think there is way to have an automated import of data act like > Frame in InDesign, we just haven't scratched at it enough. > Is this possible?
InDesign can import and work with XML data similar to FrameMaker, but I don't think ID handles it as well as Frame (yet). ID does not do straddled text like Frame, so while you could automate text, a table, or a graphic being imported into an anchored frame/object, the type would not flow the same as it does in Frame. (ID flows top-to-bottom, left-to-right; Frame will split the flow above-and-below the straddled element.) David Creamer I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training http://www.IDEAStraining.com Adobe Certified Trainer & Expert (since 1995) Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988) Markzware, Enfocus, FileMaker Certified
