Resources and publications - Typefi

Access the Typefi brains trust.

Here you’ll find an ever-growing range of white papers, articles, and presentations from Typefi’s expert team and partners, as well as Typefi product brochures and demos.

Typefi in action

3-minute demo: Parallel publishing with Typefi

How to publish an entire book in under 2 minutes!

Typefi Systems Case Study (Austrade)

Accelerate your content production!

Papers + articles

Gayanthika Udeshani

Gayanthika Udeshani

Typefi Blog featuring Balisage 2022 Paper: “Getting useful XML from Microsoft Excel”

Damian Gibbs

Damian Gibbs

Typefi Blog: 5 Automation tips when creating InDesign templates

Peter Kahrel

Peter Kahrel

Typefi Blog: Automate repetitive graphs and charts in InDesign with scripting

Damian Gibbs

Damian Gibbs

Typefi Blog: 4 Top tips using InDesign paragraph styles

Guy van der Kolk

Guy van der Kolk

Typefi Blog: Introducing accessibility into your digital content in 3 steps

Damian Gibbs

Damian Gibbs

Typefi Blog: Automate your way to more meaningful work

An artist's impression of a digital handshake between two wireframe hands.

Jason Mitchell

Typefi Blog: 5 steps to successfully choose a tech vendor

An illustration of people working with books and pencils. A light bulb, mortarboard and Euro symbol indicate that they are working with standards.

Damian Gibbs

Typefi Blog: Standards—The foundation for innovation and creativity

Guy van der Kolk

Guy van der Kolk

Typefi Blog: 7 simple ways to make Word documents more accessible

A green picture frame contains the phrase, 1000 words.

Huw Alexander (textBOX)

Typefi Blog: The silence of the image

Jason Mitchell

Jason Mitchell

Typefi Blog: Successfully managing a remote team

Lines of JavaScript code overlaid on a photo of a laptop with a glowing gold light coming from the screen.

Peter Kahrel

Typefi Blog: A typesetting treasure trove

Damian Gibbs

Damian Gibbs

Typefi Blog: Automation is great, but it won’t work for my books

Morgaine Auton & the Typefi team

Typefi Blog: Happy 20th birthday, InDesign

Damian Gibbs

Damian Gibbs

Typefi Blog: The publishing machine

Peter Kahrel

Peter Kahrel

Typefi Blog: Unprettify CXML code in Oxygen

Chandi Perera stands in front of an artwork involving bicycles and fan-shaped pieces of cloth mounted on wooden racks.

Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative

Chandi Perera from Typefi: An industry service provider

A black and white photo of Typefi's six Australian team members in a row.

Trade & Investment Queensland

How Typefi changed publishing: An interview with Chandi Perera

Peter Kahrel

Peter Kahrel

Typefi Blog: Formatting the unformattable in InDesign

Guy van der Kolk

Guy van der Kolk

Typefi Blog: Overcoming the challenges of accessible publishing

Guy van der Kolk

Guy van der Kolk

Typefi Blog: Nuggets of Word wisdom

Ben Hauser

Ben Hauser

Typefi Blog: Machine learning—what language should I use?

Chandi Perera

Chandi Perera

Typefi Blog: Building a successful export business

Title page of Peter Kahrel's March 2017 InDesign Magazine article 'Going deep with footnotes'

Peter Kahrel

InDesign Magazine: Going deep with footnotes

Cover of Typefi White Paper: Take control of your content and DO MORE

Eric Damitz

Typefi White Paper: Take control of your content and DO MORE

JATS-Con Conference Proceedings cover

Chandi Perera

JATS-Con: Challenges in implementing a multilingual JATS publishing workflow

Cover of the May 2016 issue of InDesign Magazine promoting a lead story on colour management.

Guy van der Kolk

InDesign Magazine: Expanding your linguistic horizons

JATS-Con Conference Proceedings cover

Chandi Perera

JATS-Con: Redlining application using JATS XML at ISO

Cover of the March 2014 issue of InDesign Magazine promoting a lead story on GREP.

Peter Kahrel

InDesign Magazine: Get a grip on GREP

Chandi Perera

OECD Observer: Print is not dead yet

JATS-Con Conference Proceedings cover

Chandi Perera

JATS-Con: Book publishing with JATS

JATS-Con Conference Proceedings cover

Melanie Lauckner (WHO) & Chandi Perera

JATS-Con: Accessible publishing using JATS

JATS-Con Conference Proceedings cover

Louise R. Adam (FASS) & Chandi Perera

JATS-Con: eXtyles, Typefi, and the NLM Journal Publishing DTD

Webinar recordings

Publishing tips

A guide to structuring content for automation

Content conversion: The gateway to smart content

Accessible publishing made easy

Getting control of your content

Simplifying multilingual publishing

DO MORE with Scripting webinar series

DO MORE with Scripting webinar series overview

1. Script events

1A. Deploying scripts

2. Writing and using custom scripts

3. Typefi Document Object Model (DOM)

4. Bringing it all together in a script

5. Scripting Typefi AutoFit

InDesign Scripting & GREP Resources

Standardising Standards webinar series

Standardising Standards webinar series overview

1. Introducing NISO STS

2. XML Workflow Choices

3. Getting your content from Word to STS XML

4. Publishing standards using STS

5. Working with standard adoptions

6. Increasing the value of your STS adoption

7. SFS Case Study: Multilingual standards publishing with STS

8. ISO Case Study: Implementing and leveraging an XML workflow

Industry solutions

Publish multiformat educational content 80% faster!

Fast automated publishing for scientific and scholarly content

Flexible, Accessible, Engaging: Automation for Educational Content

STM: End-to-end automation with eXtyles Arc and Typefi

Typefi, Adobe InDesign, and XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager

An introduction to Standards Cloud

STM: Demystifying JATS and BITS with Inera eXtyles and Typefi

Typefi for Legal Publishers: An introduction

Typefi for legal publications: Master the challenge of looseleaf workflows

Introduction to Typefi for Financial Services

Typefi for manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors

Typefi product updates

Product Recap 2020 (Feb 2021)

The Great Docs Reorganisation of 2020 (Feb 2021)

Accelerate styling with Typefi Writer 64-bit edition (Oct 2020)

Screenshot of Blinkenlights from Caleb Clauset's 2019 Typefi product update.

Typefi Product update (May 2019)

Title slide from Caleb Clauset's 2018 Typefi Product Update.

Typefi Product update (Mar 2018)

What’s new at Typefi (Aug 2017)

DO MORE thumbnail

Typefi Product update (Apr 2017)

DO MORE with your publishing in 2017 (Jan 2017)

Typefi: The world’s most recommended publishing platform (Dec 2016)

Publish faster with Typefi 8 (Aug 2016)

Introduction to Typefi 8 (Jan 2016)

Presentations & Panels

Industry events

Frankfurt Book Fair 2020

People and Technology: The future of making books

Adobe MAX 2018

Anubhav Rohatgi, Dana Kendall & Caleb Clauset: Design automation with Adobe InDesign

XML for Standards Publishers 2017

Chandi Perera: Accessibility in publishing

AAUP 2015

Caleb Clauset: How to publish an entire book in under 2 minutes!

Typefi Standards Symposium 2021

Kylie Rodier & Anja Bielfeld

What’s Next in Standards Publishing at ISO & IEC

Robin Dunford

From Microsoft Word to NISO STS with Inera eXtyles

Caleb Clauset & Dilum Samarajeewa

Typefi Standards Cloud

Bruce Rosenblum

NISO STS: Past, Present, Future

Damian Gibbs

Publishing Accessible Standards

Guy van der Kolk

Automating Standards Publishing with Typefi

Kathryn Miller

Multiplatform Standards & Guidelines Publishing at NIST

Jan Benedictus

The Future of Documents (Fonto)

Patrick Gibbons

Continuing Adventures in Standards XML Publishing at IEEE

Typefi User Conference 2019 (Baltimore, USA)

Title slide from Todd Carpenter's standards publishing presentation.

Todd Carpenter

We All Know the Benefits of Standards: Let’s Apply That Knowledge to Publishing Standards

Title slide from Jason Mitchell and Dilum Samarajeewa's Standards Cloud presentation.

Jason Mitchell & Dilum Samarajeewa

An Introduction to Typefi Standards Cloud

Title slide from Robin Dunford's presentation 'Workflow Choices: When and Where Do I Introduce STS XML?'

Robin Dunford

Workflow Choices: When and Where Do I Introduce STS XML?

Title slide from Patrick Gibbons' presentation.

Patrick Gibbons

IEEE: Implementing an XML Workflow in a Standards Environment

Title slide from Kara Laufer Levesque's presentation.

Kara Laufer Levesque

Publishing at ASTM International

Screenshot from Damian Gibbs' Standards and Accessibility presentation.

Damian Gibbs

Standards and Accessibility

Screenshot of Blinkenlights from Caleb Clauset's 2019 Typefi product update.

Caleb Clauset

Typefi Product Update 2019

Cover slide of Peyton Bentley and Eric Damitz's presentation.

Peyton Bentley & Eric Damitz

Kaplan Professional Education: Creating Flexible Content with XML and Typefi

Cover slide of Jim Cain's presentation.

Jim Cain

Standing the Test of Time: A Case Study for Integrating DITA XML and Typefi

Cover slide of Jason Mitchell's presentation 'The Ideal Typefi Team - Training for Success'.

Jason Mitchell

The Ideal Typefi Team—Training for Success

Opening slide of Tommie Usdin's presentation on descriptive markup.

B. Tommie Usdin

The Value of Descriptive Markup for Discovery, Utility, and Preservation

Title slide from Tim Siers' presentation about online collaborative authoring.

Tim Siers

Online Collaborative Authoring: An Australian Government Case Study

Screenshot from Guy van der Kolk's presentation on lesser-known features in Typefi 8.

Guy van der Kolk

Gems in Typefi 8

Title slide from Robin Dunford's eXtyles Arc presentation.

Robin Dunford

Hands-free Word to XML: Production’s Holy Grail

$Screenshot from Eric Damitz's math typesetting presentation showing math equations in an InDesign document.$

Eric Damitz

Typesetting Math with Interactive Scripts

Screenshot from David Popham's presentation showing a published infographic in a PDF.

David Popham

Creating Infographics with Typefi

Screenshot from Jamie Brinkman's presentation on paragraph shading, showing a document open in InDesign. The right-hand page is text with a shaded green background.

Jamie Brinkman

Paragraph Shading Done Two Ways

Screenshot from Marie Gollentz's EPUB Workflow presentation showing the new approach. Content XML flows into a single InDesign template, which then branches into two outputs; the first branch is PDF, the second is EPUB via InDesign.

Marie Gollentz

A New EPUB Workflow

Typefi User Conference 2018 (Brighton, UK)

Title slide from Chandi Perera's Accessible Publishing presentation.

Chandi Perera

Accessible publishing: What is it and how do we get there?

Opening slide from Simon De Nicola's Accessible Publications presentation.

Simon De Nicola

Accessible publishing in six languages at ITU

Title slide from Emily Johnston's Accessibility and Law presentation.

Emily Johnston

Accessibility and law

Title slide from Guy van der Kolk's accessible technologies presentation.

Guy van der Kolk

Technologies for accessible publishing

Title slide from Caleb Clauset's 2018 Typefi Product Update.

Caleb Clauset

Typefi Product update 2018

Title slide from Eric Damitz's workflows presentation.

Eric Damitz

DO MORE with workflows

Title slide from Guy van der Kolk's DO MORE with validation presentation.

Guy van der Kolk

DO MORE with validation

Title slide from Clive Bullen's case study presentation.

Clive Bullen

Choosing and using Typefi at LSBF

Title slide from Chris Kaefer's Content Management Systems presentation.

Chris Kaefer

A CMS, Abraham Lincoln and a Tree

Opening slide from Sarah Crouch's case study presentation.

Sarah Crouch

Publishing with Typefi at RICS

Title slide of Jason Mitchell's 2018 Professional Services Update.

Jason Mitchell

Typefi Professional Services update 2018

Title slide from Adrian Driscoll's 2018 Typefi User Conference presentation.

Adrian Driscoll

Apps and publishing

Typefi User Conference 2017 (Chicago, US)

Slide from Caleb Clauset's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Typefi Product Update (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Jane Musser's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Typefi for book publishing: A case study from Avalon Travel (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Ben Hauser's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Customising Typefi (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Patrick Baker's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Introducing AuthorBridge: A partner update from Stilo (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Mike Zahorik's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Content velocity (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Linda Griffin Kean's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Melding vendors into a Typefi workflow: A case study from the IMF (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Jason Mitchell's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Typefi Professional Services update (Chicago 2017)

Slide from Chandi Perera's 2017 Typefi User Conference presentation

Trends in publishing (Chicago 2017)

Typefi User Conference 2016 (Brighton, UK)

2016 Typefi User Conference presentations (Brighton UK)

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