Re: XWD as an enhanced ebook authoring system
Gee I am no expert on this subject but have to do for some publications that I produce in ID. I have to produce both portrait and landscape docs. and these have to be linked together so that it does not matter which way the document is viewed. Also when I place the text to one doc it is placed in the other and this is done through InFlow via a special way of saving that doc. Most of the interactions are done through the panels which write specific scripts for you which will run when you export as SWF file and ID is fine tuned to run on iOS system which misses lots of people who use the older versions of the Android system. I had a long learning curve to get my publications to run correctly using ID and I doubt that Xara has the Muscle to produce such a script driven publication although buttons and hyperlinks are done in a similar way using layers and page options. It would be better for Xara to concentrate on the export filter for swf. files instead of just using placeholders for the file and exporting as html. It is a big ask! to get a Xara to produce a programme which will include nested overlays, pinch & zoom with buttons which have many actions and will work when a video is running. I think it would be better to wait for a developer who comes up with a PDF converter to do the job.
Last edited by Albacore; 25 March 2012 at 02:51 PM.
Reason: missed part of expination
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