XML rules engine developer partners
Adobe® InDesign® CS3 includes a new rules-based XML processing engine that enables developers and IT professionals to create custom XML import solutions that dynamically generate design-rich documents. Business logic, formatting guidelines, and design templates can be defined as rules that combine with XML to drive InDesign to dynamically build custom page layouts. Rule sets are defined using standard scripting languages — JavaScript, AppleScript, or VBScript — making it easy to prototype new sets as well as extend and maintain existing ones. Combined with InDesign CS3 Server, the XML rules engine provides publishers with a robust publishing solution for automated data-driven document creation. Additional information about the XML rules engine in InDesign and InDesign Server, as well as documentation for creating custom rule sets, can be found on the scripting page. For more information on the InDesign CS3 or InDesign CS3 Server SDK, visit the Developer Center.
If you're a publisher interested in a custom-automated XML publishing solution, or if you simply want to learn more about creating your own XML publishing process using the new XML rules engine in InDesign CS3, contact one of the following developers.
North America
Advanced Technical Solutions
Advanced Technical Solutions develops systems to enhance and streamline newspaper editorial, advertising, and circulation processes. ATS is exploring a prototype interface for the new XML rules-based processing engine as a foundation to automate the formatting and creation of complex page layouts.
Avatar Digital Publishing Solutions
Avatar Digital Publishing Solutions, which develops automated solutions for data-driven marketing and publishing professionals using the InDesign CS3 XML rules engine and InDesign CS3 Server, is developing a dynamic document publishing solution for an enterprise partner. The system automates the generation of complex page layouts based on input from merchandising and marketing-analysis applications and synchronizes changes across multiple documents. This solution will automate a custom advertising layout system for retail advertising, such as newspaper circulars.
For more information, visit Avatar Digital Publishing
Solutions
Premedia Systems
Premedia Systems is a San Francisco-based consulting company that develops InDesign plug-ins and provides custom software development services, product training, and workflow analysis to print publishers. Premedia is investigating custom solutions that combine the power of the XML rules engine in InDesign CS3 with customer-driven rule sets to automate page layouts.
Teacup Software
Teacup Software, an InDesign plug-in developer that also offers consulting services, is enhancing its DataLinker plug-in to include support for rules-based formatting and scripting using the XML rules engine in InDesign CS3. This new version of DataLinker will enable users to automatically create sophisticated layouts from a variety of data sources, including text files, XML files, and ODBC databases. Teacup Software is currently working with Reader's Digest to develop a system that dynamically formats recipes from a database for use in Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine.
Europe
Jeberien Consulting
Jeberien Consulting provides consulting services and systems integration to publishers in Europe and Asia. Jeberien is creating a system for Dow Jones News in Germany that will allow customers to go to the company's website, choose various types of custom content, and dynamically generate a newsletter. The InDesign XML rules engine will process the XML content and dynamically convert it to a custom-formatted version of XML, build rich layouts, and output as an Adobe PDF document.
Asia
ProField
ProField Co. Ltd. is an experienced InDesign plug-in developer in Japan that also provides contracting and consulting services. ProField is updating its ProDIX 5.0 plug-in to leverage the InDesign CS3 XML rules-processing engine. ProDIX is an automated cross-media publishing solution that integrates with a content management system for catalog, magazine, book, and retail production publishing. The updated version of ProDIX will enable customers to write their own scripts to extend the plug-in to automate custom page layouts.
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