The publishing industry has changed. Digital media is now essential and publishers are increasingly looking to software vendors to help them take advantage of new opportunities. Learn what all the most successful publishing software projects have in common and how to leverage these insights for your organisation in this blog post by Solutions Consultant, Damian Gibbs.
In 20+ years of helping organisations publish better content in less time, we’ve seen every type of design, and every type of source content to populate a design—and we can confidently say that design really does matter. Chandi Perera, Typefi CEO, makes the case for good design in product documentation in this blog post.
March 8th is International Women’s Day! It’s a day to celebrate women and all their achievements, raise awareness about discrimination, and take action to work towards true equality for all women. We’re thankful for all the incredible women on our team—read their stories to get their thoughts about women’s inclusion and working at Typefi.
Women in Tech is a leading global organisation working for inclusion, diversity and equity in STEM. Typefi is incredibly proud to announce that Chathini Uduwana, Typefi VP People and Country Head for Sri Lanka, was recently appointed as the Sri Lanka Chapter Ambassador for Women in Tech.
Typefi is proud to announce a new partnership with RecoSoft, a leading provider of software solutions to convert files between Adobe and Microsoft applications. With this partnership, Typefi users can export complete InDesign spreads directly to PowerPoint from within Typefi workflows.
There are lots of file formats out there for your content—how do you choose? What if you need multiple formats? Jamie Brinkman, Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant, discusses the features and benefits of various formats—and one way to easily publish in multiple formats—in this blog post.
XML is a standardised markup language commonly used by technical writers to create structured content. XML is also useful when it comes to automating time-consuming tasks and processes—like pagination—in publishing. If you’re new to XML, check out this article to learn what XML and DITA are, and the benefits of XML web authoring.
Typefi has partnered with Fonto & Syncro Soft to offer XML web authoring integrations as part of your automated publishing workflows. Now, authors can edit any DITA XML file directly from their Typefi Server interface.
Emily Johnston, Typefi Business Development Director, recently sat down for a chat to discuss how Typefi, along with Componize CCMS and structured authoring in DITA, has revolutionised how Kaplan produces its content. What was once a tedious workflow—taking content manually from Microsoft Word into InDesign—is now highly automated and streamlined.
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.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) has come a long way since it was launched by Adobe in 1993. Read on to learn more about what the development of the PDF can teach us when it comes to developing our products, driving popular appeal and soaring above competitors in the marketplace.