InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

[Michael Müller-Hillebrand]

Am 12.09.2008 um 10:44 schrieb Amnon Yaish:

> Does ID have
> anything comparable to a FM edd ?


A FrameMaker EDD is: validating structure rules combined with context- 
aware, automatic, ready-for-print formatting.

InDesign has nothing like that.

If you (just) use an EDD to format XML documents for publishing (not  
editing nor authoring!), you can achieve the same effect in InDesign  
(although implemented totally different) by using an XSL  
transformation to add special attributes to the XML document which  
instruct InDesign to select certain formats. Further thing are  
possible using XML rules. But _- again -- that only applies to mere  
publishing tasks.

- Michael Müller-Hillebrand


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