We built the InDesign Uploader in CP5 to utilize both the Tagging and XML Export features of the Adobe layout software InDesign.  This process streamlines the uploading of stories from your print edition to your website, saving valuable time during production night as opposed to the typical copy and paste routine.
 
In the downloadable Zip file below, you’ll find a PDF with simple step, by step instructions on how to get from an InDesign file to XML.  As well as a set of InDesign Tags that are to be used to make the proper XML document.  It is important to follow the instructions exactly to get a file that will upload in CP5 without causing an error.
 
This process also assumes that your newspaper is following best practices for newspaper layout and using certain tools within InDesign. Such as paragraph styles, separate text boxes for headlines, sub headlines, by lines and story text.  If this isn’t the case you might find that there are a few extra steps you will need to take in order to get everything right, but in the end it will still save time over the current process. Once the articles have been uploaded you will have to go through each article to Categorize the articles and upload any necessary photos.