Reverse Publishing / Digital PrePress

Google Docs Add-on Overview

The Google Docs Add-On allows you to connect your Google Docs account with your Our-Hometown website so that you can easily publish content directly from your Google Docs workspace to the web without having to switch between multiple platforms or copy and paste content. For each Google Doc activate the Our-Hometown add-on and enter your website’s credentials. This will create a direct link between your document and your site with only a […]

Exporting display ads for Reverse Publishing

In this walkthrough we will demonstrate how to include display ads in your Reverse Publishing export for layout and pagination in Adobe InDesign. From your website’s dashboard look for Reverse Publishing in the listing on the left. As you hover your mouse a submenu will appear then click on Reverse Publishing. Here is where your website’s article content can be exported for a particular edition and filtered by category. In […]

Article Export for Reverse Publishing

Reverse publishing at the basic level is the process of creating and managing all of your content directly on your website, including articles, blogs, galleries, advertising, e-editions and so forth. Any of this content can then be exported as needed for use in a page layout application, such as Adobe InDesign. This method uses common XML to structure and tag your content simplifying the import process. From your website’s dashboard […]

Reverse Publishing Overview

As the industry continues to shift to a digital-first mindset, many publishers are prioritizing the digital product and spending less time on print. The Our-Hometown Reverse Publishing tool addresses this approach by allowing you to draft, edit, and publish content directly to your website first, and then export a single article, a category, section or an entire edition for quick and easy import into an Adobe InDesign document for print layout. After setting up a few […]

Reverse Publishing Classifieds

Reverse Publishing Classifieds allows you to create and compile your Classified ads online, including ads submitted by customers through your website. When you’re ready, you can export the whole batch of ads for use in your print edition. Of course, before you can export any ads, you must first create any ads that were not already submitted by customers. Creating Your Ads Online From your WordPress Dashboard, find the link […]

Digital PrePress / Reverse Publishing > Email Notifications

Reverse Publishing Notifications On your website dashboard, navigate to: Reverse Publishing -> Settings: If you do not have reverse publishing / digital prepress and are interested in testing it out or adding it to your paper, please email mcl@our-hometown.com  First, select when you want to be notified of updates: “Notify me of updates:” has 3 checkboxes: On the export screen When Articles are saved Every [#] Minutes Then enter who to […]

Importing into InDesign

The following walk through the process of importing an XML file generated by our Reverse Publishing plugin and placing an article into an InDesign document. Create a new blank document in InDesign. If you have page dimensions, they should be set at this step. Go to the File menu and click Import XML. Select the XML file in the folder extracted from the zip file download. Make sure the Show XML […]