Comments on: Exporting an InDesign Book to XFL for Flash

By: Peg Walsh

Peg Walsh — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:51:04 +0000

We are trying to take the 288 page full color catalog into
one FLIP book…is it possible?
With what I’ve read (2008) it could take forever…print version is over 5GIG.
Any suggestions?
I also have to combine 17 sections of the CS4 InDesign
Catalog into one 288 page to do this…again, what is the
best way to do this??

Any help will be greatly appreciated

By: Petteri Paananen

Petteri Paananen — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:26:57 +0000

It´s available now:
http://www.prepress.fi/index.php?id=157

Most recent demos:
http://www.prepress.fi/eDocBrowser
(this is set of 3 dummy SWF´s linked together)

http://www.prepress.fi/e_news
(2 real magazines, this is with search)

https://www.pohto.fi/pohto_enews/
(2 small 4-page magazines)

By: Richard Weeks

Richard Weeks — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:29:52 +0000

I am also interested in the magazine browser technology. Please would you let me know when available. Thanks

By: Eduardo Viana

Eduardo Viana — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:11:51 +0000

Hi, i’m from Brazil and interested in yours magazine-browser for my magazine client. Please, tell me when its alread. I’d like to test it too. Thanks.

By: Petteri Paananen

Petteri Paananen — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:07:46 +0000

By the way, that previous post looks like sent by me but it´s not… my name appeared there after I posted this answer, I don´t remember anymore who was the original sender… strange, a bug in forum software?

Anyway…
There´s no price tag for it yet. I can send you a package for testing, if you like…

Send me an email: petteri.koti[at]NOSPAMdig.fi

(remove NOSPAM from address and turn [at] to @)

By: Petteri Paananen

Petteri Paananen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:20:05 +0000

I wounder of the price of InDesign SWF “magazine-browser.

By: Ben Feigin

Ben Feigin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:21:51 +0000

Keith really hits the nail on the head as far as this problem goes, however with a simple extension from adobe… A mass library re-namer does just the trick. Infact if you put objects into folders and then use the rename it will automatically append the folders name.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1091471#

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:50:53 +0000

@Sean: You should be able to just change the .xfl to .zip and then use an unzip program to unzip it. (If I recall, the built-in zip program on the mac didn’t work, so I had to use a free third-party zip tool.)

By: Petteri Paananen

Petteri Paananen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:20:51 +0000

Keith,

absolutely. And the price is not going to be high.

Latest version works with external XML-file. So you can publish as many indesign-SWF-magazines there as you like. Magazine Browser generates a ComboBox-dropdown menu to the top of the screen. If you have 5 magazines in XML-file, then you see 5 choise in ComboBox etc… InDesign SWF-files can rest basicly anywhere as long as you refer them correctly in XML-file, thus its recommended to keep them under same Domain.

Latest version is:

http://www.prepress.fi/lehtiselain/PPS_lehtiselain6.html

“Valitse lehti” in combobox means “Pick a magazine”.

I have also made an AIR-version of this for desktop usage…

By: Sean McAuliffe

Sean McAuliffe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:31:18 +0000

Keith,

How did you “unzip” the xfl to get to the contents? Thanks.