Anglia Ruskin University XML to InDesign scripting

Posted in Miscellaneous  •  7 May 2010

Anglia Ruskin University's prospectus is generated from an XML feed - a file of structured information produced from a database.

In the past, information was manually copied from the XML file to a Word document, and then typeset - a process that took around six weeks.

I wrote a script which took the XML feed and plucked out the relevant information, then inserted it all into InDesign documents and made PDFs of them. I set it running before going to bed one evening; by the next morning it was done.

Anglia Ruskin University XML to InDesign scripting