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Automated Publishing for Adobe InDesign
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This is an InDesign CS4 JavaScript Project for importing XML
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This is more playground than enything else
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The script set in the folder "slim" and the prvided XML in folder "xml" is all you need
It works also in ID CS 5 but not allways. seems like ID CS 5 doesent suport .untag()

**How To:**

Wordpress
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- **Install the latest [wordpress](http://wordpress.org/download/)** follow the provided instructions

Create some Content
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- **Make some Posts.** They don't need to be published
- At this moment the following formating is supported
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
Bold
Italic
Endnote
Footnote

- You can also write in openoffice or word and use the basic paragraph styles
- In the Post Editor within worpress you can use the option **"Paste from Word"**
- it is a bit hiddne feature look around

Export
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- Logged in as Admin go to "Tools / Export"
- and export the posts of the author you want to import to InDesign

Download Scripts
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- go here and download the latest version of [vFFF](http://fabiantheblind.github.com/vFFF/)

Install Scripts
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- place everything in the InDesign Scripts Folder following these [instructions](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=indesign+install+script)

Install Find Change Queries
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On Mac under:
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS4/Presets/Find-Change Queries/GREP/de_DE/
or
/Users/[YOUR USERNAME]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 6.0/de_DE/Find-Change Queries/GREP/

In InDesign
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- now **execute the script:** _"/vFFF/latest/RUN.jsx"_
- read the "Help?" from within the script
- within the package is a folder called "xml" there is a basic .xml file provided
- everything that could be parsed into InDesign character and paragraph syles is parsed

TODO
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Create a document sampler to take par char obj styles from a existing doc
Create some sort of session
Create pref panel for options
Create iconbuttons
Create multikill
Create book

LOG
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**Tue Apr 26 07:08:49 CEST 2011** Reorganized Folder structure

**Tue Apr 19 13:23:58 CEST 2011** Build a new UserInterface
folder extended was zipped to importer_v01.zip and removed

**Mon Jan 24 14:15:16 CET 2011** added styles_editor.jsx for OO

**Thu Jan 6 20:59:27 CET 2011** added how to

**Sun Dec 19 11:11:46 CET 2010** realised that this is not the way to get data into InDesign.
A real html parser would be usefull instead of the findChange.jsx
Watch out for moreTime4design == mehrZeitZumGestalten

**Sat Dec 18 21:33:02 CET 2010** the blockqote tag is making bad stuff

**Sat Dec 18 16:42:55 CET 2010** made some big housekeeping
moved old and the whole formatting stuff to extended
added folder slim. This conains now a reduced but working version

**Sa 18 Dez 2010 10:39:17 CET** Set up some more html tags

**Thu Nov 25 16:43:44** CET 2010 InDesign CS 5 Tested - works
**Thu Nov 25 17:38:05** CET 2010 Worpress 3.0.1 Tested - Has new Filterfunctions for export and works

**Thu Nov 25 2010**
This is an autopuplishing project by fabiantheblind
go [here->](http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium_download)
to get the Gentium font

BUGS
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- xml untag in CS5