Multi-Channel Publishing - Our-Hometown https://our-hometown.com Your Newspaper's Future, Today. Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:50:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://our-hometown.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-our-hometown-block-no-texxt-32x32.jpg Multi-Channel Publishing - Our-Hometown https://our-hometown.com 32 32 Setting Your Paragraph Styles https://our-hometown.com/docs/setting-paragraph-styles/ Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:15:12 +0000 http://our-hometown.com/?post_type=docit&p=3549 After importing your file into inDesign, go to "window > styles > paragraph styles"Click "paragraph styles" to open a window with the 4 character types that were labeled during the XML export.Use the paragraph styles to apply changes throughout the document You can also set styles by individual story but setting universal styles save a great deal of time overall Right click on the paragraph type you want to change.Click "Edit (paragraph […]

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Step 1.

  • After importing your file into inDesign, go to "window > styles > paragraph styles"
  • Click "paragraph styles" to open a window with the 4 character types that were labeled during the XML export.
  • Use the paragraph styles to apply changes throughout the document
    •  You can also set styles by individual story but setting universal styles save a great deal of time overall

Step 2.

  • Right click on the paragraph type you want to change.
  • Click "Edit (paragraph type)" to open the style options.

Step 3.

  • Select basic character formats to control the font size, family, & style
  • Click "OK"
  • In this example, these changes will be applied to all headlines in the document
  • Do the same for the subhead, author, & body text
  • You can also set font styles universally.

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]]> Setting Your Font Styles https://our-hometown.com/docs/setting-your-styles/ Fri, 04 Mar 2016 06:43:46 +0000 http://our-hometown.com/?post_type=docit&p=3437 After importing your file into inDesign, go to "window > styles > character styles"Click "character styles" to open a window with the 4 character types that were labeled during the XML export.Use the character styles to apply changes throughout the documentYou can modify font styles in the stories individually, but universal styles save time overall Right click on the paragraph type you want to change.Click "Edit (paragraph type)" to open the style […]

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Step 1.

  • After importing your file into inDesign, go to "window > styles > character styles"
  • Click "character styles" to open a window with the 4 character types that were labeled during the XML export.
  • Use the character styles to apply changes throughout the document
    • You can modify font styles in the stories individually, but universal styles save time overall

Step 2.

  • Right click on the paragraph type you want to change.
  • Click "Edit (paragraph type)" to open the style options.

Step 3.

  • Select basic character formats to control the font size, family, & style
  • Click "OK"
  • In this example, these changes will be applied to all headlines in the document
  • Do the same for the subhead, author, & body text
  • You can also set paragraph styles universally.

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]]> Exporting Your File https://our-hometown.com/docs/exporting-your-files/ Fri, 04 Mar 2016 06:41:23 +0000 http://our-hometown.com/?post_type=docit&p=3432 Go to your website’s homepage and add “/export” to the end of the URL. Select the edition you want to export from the drop down. Check the box to include the ads that are currently running on the site. These two fields are the character and paragraph styles, which can be set to label the data for inDesign.  Later this will be used to automatically style the articles during layout […]

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  1. Go to your website’s homepage and add “/export” to the end of the URL.
    1. Select the edition you want to export from the drop down.
    2. Check the box to include the ads that are currently running on the site.
    3. These two fields are the character and paragraph styles, which can be set to label the data for inDesign.  Later this will be used to automatically style the articles during layout
    4. Then Click export to download the zip file.
  2. Drag the file to the desktop and right click to extract all.
    1. This will create a new file which contains all your photos, ads, and an XML of the text.

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