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[forest mars]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Graham Spice <graham at nuthinwerked.com>
wrote:

> Too bad the PDF indexer didn't work - that would have been the best, I
> think.
>

Adobe had the chance to make pdf the format of choice for moving print media
to the web.

They dropped that ball long ago. pdf's work for what they are --portable
documents-- but are completely inadequate for websites.

Since indexing doesn't work, you're just as well off to go with Flash. Oh,
and lose the Quark too.

InDesign supports XML templating for print and while it has an export
function for web based workflows, IMO the better solution is just to call
the same XML from Flash that you call from InDesign for print. Easy peasy.

Obviously this leaves the indexibility problem unsolved, but preserves the
design. Fixing indexibility may likely be a matter of passing off the XML
page to the correct handler. If anyone is really interested in this, I'll
save it for another email.

HTH,

Forest
-- 
"In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same.
 In practice, they're completely different."
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