Typefi User Conference 2019

In this presentation from the 2019 Typefi User Conference, Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, discusses the history and development of the NISO Standards Tag Suite (STS), an XML standard for publishing standards, and the benefits it offers to the global standards publishing community.

Standards Cloud is the fastest and easiest way to create ISO adoptions! This fully web-based platform enables NSBs to produce professional standards adoptions using the same technology and source XML that ISO uses—no technical or typesetting expertise needed.

When and where should you introduce XML to your publishing workflow? During authoring? Before editing? Before composition? Or after publication? Robin Dunford, Senior Solutions Consultant at Inera, discusses the pros and cons of all four approaches, with particular reference to implementing the NISO Standards Tag Suite (STS) for standards publishing.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organisation. In this presentation, Patrick Gibbons, Senior Solutions Manager at IEEE, shares insights into the IEEE Standards Association's experience of implementing an XML workflow with Inera eXtyles and Typefi.

ASTM International is a world-leading standards development organisation. In this presentation, Kara Laufer Levesque, Publishing Manager at ASTM International, shares insights into her experiences and the challenges and opportunities of working in standards publishing today.

Creating your content in accessible formats makes it more usable for everyone! In this presentation, Solutions Consultant Damian Gibbs discusses the principles of accessibility. He also explains how Typefi can help customers produce content in accessible formats with minimal additional cost.

Typefi’s software is continually evolving to adapt to a changing technological landscape and to meet the needs of Typefi customers. In his annual product update from 2019, Caleb Clauset, VP Product, reveals the new features that Typefi has implemented over the past 12 months and offers a sneak peek of what’s in store in the future.

The team at Kaplan Professional Education needed to find a way to make their content more flexible, and XML seemed to be the answer. In this case study, Peyton Bentley (Information Architect, Kaplan Professional Education) talks about how the team implemented DITA, and explains how using XML has not only improved their publishing workflows but has truly made their content more flexible.

Typefi enabled The Institutes to increase its publishing output by 1900% over five years and to offer customised content on demand, all with the same staffing resources. Check out this presentation to learn how The Institutes achieved these results with DITA XML and Typefi.

Anyone who has developed and implemented a Typefi-based publishing project knows that it’s a team effort! In this presentation, Jason Mitchell, Typefi VP of Customer Experience, shares his theory on how publishing teams can set themselves up for success using the training Typefi offers and the knowledge and experience of Typefi's Professional Services team.

In this presentation, B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, argues that the long-term value of XML is not in the XML itself, but in the nature of the markup. By focusing on “descriptive markup” rather than “XML syntax” we can talk about the real value in the push towards interchange of XML documents.

In this presentation, Tim Siers, Technical Director and Co-founder of collaborative online authoring tool MasterDocs, shares how the Australian Government is using MasterDocs combined with digital publishing to develop content for its new Transparency Portal.

Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant Guy van der Kolk shares some lesser-known Typefi 8 validation features, and demonstrates how to access the version history of your files in Typefi Server.

Robin Dunford, Inera Senior Solutions Consultant, introduces eXtyles Arc, an intelligent hands-free solution that performs sophisticated, fully automated analysis of unstructured Word content to identify document elements and accurately convert them to full-text XML.

Math typesetting can be a drag, but you can make short work of it with movemen MathTools and some tricky InDesign scripts! Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant Eric Damitz demonstrates some of the math typesetting scripts that are available to Typefi customers.

Typefi doesn't do infographics… or DOES IT? Typefi Solutions Consultant David Popham shows you how to automatically create a stylish infographic with Typefi Writer and a simple Typefi Designer template.

To create a box with a shaded background, Typefi users will generally create a Typefi Element. However, InDesign now offers some native features that allow users to achieve a similar effect using Paragraph Styles. Solutions Consultant Jamie Brinkman demonstrates both methods, highlighting the pros and cons of each.

Typefi's Professional Services team is always looking for ways to help customers DO MORE. Solutions Consultant Marie Gollentz demonstrates a new EPUB workflow that allows users to create both PDF and EPUB from a single InDesign template.