We are both sad and happy to announce that Peter Kahrel, Senior Scripting Engineer at Typefi, is retiring on Friday, 28 April 2023. A global star in the InDesign scripting community—almost as big as Elvis + rock and roll—Peter has been programming InDesign with JavaScript since 2003 and has worked as a script developer at Typefi since 2010.
Typefi users can now license the DeltaXML compare action to their Typefi workflows to output .INDD or PDF files with clear, visual highlights showing XML content additions and/or removals.
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the achievements of women around the world, raise awareness of discrimination and take action to drive gender parity. We are proud to be a tech company with strong gender diversity—35% of our staff are women and three of our five engineering teams are female-led.
We were blown away by the response to the 2022 User Conference, and we have you to thank for that! The event was completely packed, with registration filling up almost a month in advance. It was great to see so many familiar faces and meet new people too.
The Business Ecosystem Alliance announced Typefi as a Zero Distance Award winner in 2022! This award celebrates the ground-breaking work of organisations around the world seeking to eliminate the distance between their employees, their operations, and their customers.
For decades, MathType EPS equations have been created using references to Type 1 fonts, also known as PostScript fonts. Adobe will disable support for authoring with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Users will no longer have the ability to author content using Type 1 fonts after that time.
At Typefi, we’re continuously exploring ways to improve collaboration, minimise the impact of change, and help you achieve your goals—without the headaches. In order to achieve that, we’re improving our approach to project management to provide dedicated support and clearer communication.
At the 2022 Balisage markup conference, Gayanthika Udeshani, Associate Architect at Typefi, presented her paper “Getting useful XML out of Microsoft Excel.” Gayanthika spoke about converting the XSLX format with XML technologies, which saw great engagement from attendees.
Earlier this year, Typefi welcomed Chathini Uduwana, the Sri Lankan Country Head for Typefi, to its Global Leadership Team. Chathini joined Typefi in 2014 and brings over 12 years of management and leadership experience to the team.
May 19, 2022 is the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion for people with various disabilities/impairments. Learn more about Typefi’s commitment to accessible publishing in this blog post.
We are proud to announce that Typefi has recently achieved compliance with the SOC 2® Type 2 criteria for controls related to data security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Successfully meeting these criteria demonstrates Typefi’s strong and ongoing commitment to data security.
With Inera eXtyles, publishers of complex and structured content (journals, books, reports, and standards) can automate time-consuming editorial tasks and easily convert Word to XML. This session demonstrates how you can use eXtyles STS to create validated NISO STS XML files directly from Microsoft Word.