Importing XTG files into InDesign CS4?

[DianeKD]

Does anybody know how to import the XTG files from a database into InDesign CS4? I know how to do it in Quark, but I cannot find the functionality to do it directly in InDesign?

 

[carlow]

XTG is typical for Quark, XML is the extension from a database for InDesign.

 

[DianeKD]

ok...I'm familiar with XML files due to working with many online projects, but with InDesign then how does the import process work....can you be more specific? Do I draw a "text" box and import XML instead of XTG?

Thanks
Diane

 

[apepp]

...you can import XTG, but you will need Xtags from emsoftware, indesign tagging is different:

http://emsoftware.com/products/emtags/

...also there is plenty of info here on tagged text structure that indesign uses:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/tagged_text.pdf

...also this article has further info about indesign tagging:

http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-tagged-text-is-not-xpress-tags.php

andrew

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