Adobe InDesign CS4: XML and IDML
~ at September 25, 2008 by Frank Spangenberg
With Creative Suite 4 Adobe adds some more trees to the document exchange format jungle:
Next to Mars (aka PDFXML), XHTML, (tagged) text, ePub, InDesign Interchange format (INX), XML, the new XFL for exchange with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional etc. Adobe introduces the InDesign Markup Language (IDML) document with InDesign CS4.
Adobe InDesign CS3 and XML: Resources
~ at April 10, 2007 by Frank Spangenberg
Adobe InDesign CS3 features a new rules-processing engine to generate formatted page layouts from XML. Here are some resources to learn from:
- Adobe InDesign CS3: XML and scripting
- Adobe InDesign CS3: XML rules developer partners
- InDesign Developer Center
- InDesign CS3: XML rules (German, ulrich-media trainings available in May 2007)
As soon as I have my hands on an Adobe InDesign CS3, some screen videos – like I’ve done with Adobe InDesign CS2 for Mediengestalter.info – will follow.



