Tag references

Pintu Publish provides many options to create your desired publication in Adobe InDesign.
The tag references are used to format your XML file in order to achieve the desired design in your publication.

Hereunder you will find a few examples of tag references for a page, a book or a document.
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Tag references for a Book

Details

Tag	`<book>`
InDesign equivalent	InDesign book file (.indb)
Description	Create an InDesign book.
Definition	A book file (.indb) is a collection of documents that can share styles, swatches, master pages, and other items. You can sequentially number pages in booked documents, print selected documents in a book, or export them to PDF. One document can belong to multiple book files.
Allowed children	Document, General Preferences
Usage	Any documents enclosed by the opening tag <BOOK> and the closing tag </BOOK> will be added to the book.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE BOOK SYSTEM "http://localhost/generator/tags.dtd">
<book output="C:/generator/examples/Cataloog 01/output/Cataloog_01.indb">
    <doc output="C:/generator/examples/Cataloog 01/output/Cataloog_01.indd" template="C:/generator/examples/Cataloog 01/templates/cataloog.indt">
        <page masterPage="A-Master">...</page>
        <page masterPage="A-Master">...</page>
        <page masterPage="A-Master">...</page>
    </doc>
</book>

Attributes

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Tag references for a Document

Details

Tag	`<doc>`
InDesign equivalent	InDesign document file (.indd).
Description	Create an InDesign document.
Definition	A document file (.indd) is a collection of pages.
Allowed children	Layer, Meta, Page, Pagerule, Table Of Contents
Usage	Any pages (stories) enclosed by the opening tag <DOC> and the closing tag </DOC> will be added to the document.

Example

<doc output="C:/generator/examples/Cataloog 01/output/Cataloog_01.indd" template="C:/generator/examples/Cataloog 01/templates/cataloog.indt">
    <page masterPage="A-Master">...</page>
</doc>

Attributes

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Tag references for a Page

Details

Tag	`<page>`
InDesign equivalent	InDesign story
Description	Start a new InDesign story.
Definition	This tag starts a new story in the InDesign document. The attribute “masterPage” will define the layout to be placed on every page that belongs to this story.
Allowed children	Image Frame, Index, Textframe
Usage	See the tag “textframe” for more information on adding InDesign pages to a story
Notes	The tag “page” in xCS.Press is not to be confused with a page in InDesign.

Example

<DOC output="C:/www/project/output/document.indd" template="C:/www/project/templates/template.indt">
    <PAGE masterPage="A-Master">
        <TEXTFRAME id="flow">...</TEXTFRAME>
    </PAGE>
</DOC>

Attributes

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