thank you Franck for your nice words. I like that I could help a few people
out with this generator that I initially only made for myself.
now that we require renditions, sidecars are more important than ever.
normally, I create everything in the sidecar at first, don't edit metadata
in the folio builder panel/organizer.
Bob Bringhurst somewhere mentioned a possible "export" function where you
can then transfer the metadata, wich is on some roadmap.
but the requirement of such a file is wrong at the first place. instead of
duplicating a folio two, three, four or five times (iPad2,3, Android,
iPhone 3,4) this should be an integrated process.
a folio should have defined "targets" inside: iPad, retina, android. and
when Adding an article, all required 'internal renditions' should be
generated automaticlly by upscaling and/or picking the right alternative
layout.
I think this would be the correct architecture for renditions and it is an
approach we see by many multi device workflows (especially iOS app design).
but now I am turning this thread into a discussion about renditions.
sidecar.XML is good, but does not cover all things, like preview files or
article format, so there might be an improvement as well.
the code of my sidecar generator is also available on github for everybody
to grab, improve and host (or check changes back in).
—Johannes
(mobil gesendet)
