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Media Neutral Content

Sep 4, 2012 11:01 AM

Folks,

 

My employer is pushing for "Media Neutral Content." The concept is that you would store the data once in XML and be able to automatically convert to different formats: HTML, ebooks, PDF.

 

The problem in implementation is that the concept creators thing in terms of linear content that maps up to HTML.

 

What happens with content that, in print, should have figures text wrapping around and that kind of complexity?

 

Is there some kind of InDesign-related solution to this problem?

 

I also share the observation that this problem would seem to be more solvable if one starts from the format of a book and convert that to [say] HTML, rather than having something HTML-like and trying to convert it to a printed book.

 
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  • Rob Day
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    Sep 4, 2012 11:37 AM   in reply to Fred12345999

    I also share the observation that this problem would seem to be more solvable if one starts from the format of a book and convert that to [say] HTML, rather than having something HTML-like and trying to convert it to a printed book.

     

     

    I'm sure I can build a spread in InDesign that can't be replicated with any  flavor of HTML—even if there weren't  HTML typographic limitations there would still be the problem of screen resolution. On the other hand I doubt there is an HTML page I can't replicate in print.

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 12:30 PM   in reply to Rob Day

    > On the other hand I doubt there is an HTML page I can't replicate in print.

     

    A very long one?

     
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    Sep 4, 2012 12:58 PM   in reply to [Jongware]

    A very long one?

     

    Accordian fold?

     
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