“From Google Docs to InDesign” and other links…
Back in month 6 of 2008, Brian Jepson wrote about transforming Google Docs HTML into InDesign’s tagged text format: “In this way, I turned each chapter into a text file that could be easily placed into an InDesign file. After that, I handed it off to the design team, who made it look beautiful!” This tagged text thing has been out for quite some time—my assumption is that, for InDesign, it was not to be taken seriously until the CS versions were released. However, this about.com article by Jacci Howard Bear differs: “Both Adobe PageMaker and Adobe InDesign can read tags from QuarkXPress. Adobe InDesign can also read tags from PageMaker. Add-ons and XTensions can extend or enhance the ability of one program to read tags from another program. If you know the tag set for a particular application you can create tagged text in any word processor or text editor.” Now all I need to find is a decent tagged text reference.
“…the charges against ActionScript 3.0”
Colin Moock: “In the spirit of working toward solutions, and of giving a formal voice to the collective grumbling of everyday Flashers, this article provides a guide to The Charges Against ActionScript 3.0. The list of accusations follows; mostly it applies to the Flash authoring tool, not to Flex Builder.” Of the nine charges almost all of them are marked with a “guilty” verdict.
“XML makes you stoopid!”
Ric Johnson: “Let me make it clear: I KNOW XML is not the best format for everything. For example—I would not try to serialize video with characters and tags. But I might ENCLOSE it.”
“Oh happy day—the new Delicious is here”
Stephen Hood: “It has taken us a while to get here, and we really appreciate all the patience and support you’ve shown us. Now that our new platform is in place we expect to release new features more quickly. Please check out the new site and then head over to our new discussion forum to let us know what you think and what you’d like to see next. We’ll be listening.”