ez openmagazine: automating multi-channel content creation for your digital first business
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eZ OpenMagazine is a connector between eZ Publish Enterprise and popular desktop publishing suites, like InDesignTRANSCRIPT
eZ OpenMagazineAutomating Multi Channel Content
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Gabriele FrancescottoOpencontent (Italy)
Opportunities• to automate the “web to print”: create your templates repository and
publish content, all inside eZ Publish
• to automate the “print to web”: tag content and style in InDesign
• to automate the “print to mobile”: tag content and style in InDesign... and eZ Publish does the rest
• to perform translations: upload content and style, translate the content into eZ Publish and export it reusing the same template
• to recover an articles archive: tag just the content and massively upload the files
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to increase the ROI
Opportunities• to automate the “web to print”: create your templates repository and
publish content, all inside eZ Publish
• to automate the “print to web”: tag content and style in InDesign
• to automate the “print to mobile”: tag content and style in InDesign... and eZ Publish does the rest
• to perform translations: upload content and style, translate the content into eZ Publish and export it reusing the same template
• to recover an articles archive: tag just the content and massively upload the files
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to increase the ROI
The editorial workflow
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Editors
Content providers
Digital first: editorial workflow
Editors
Content providers
Digital first: editorial workflow1) fill the web forms
Editors
Content providers
Digital first: editorial workflow1) fill the web forms 2) choose a templates
Editors
Content providers
Digital first: editorial workflow1) fill the web forms 2) choose a templates
3) check content consistency
Editors
Content providers
Digital first: editorial workflow1) fill the web forms
4) export for InDesign
2) choose a templates
3) check content consistency
Editors
Content providers
Digital first: editorial workflow1) fill the web forms
4) export for InDesign5) send to print
2) choose a templates
3) check content consistency
What is eZ OpenMagazineA versatile extension that allows
eZ Publish and Adobe InDesign talk to each other.
Using eZ OpenMagazine, your eZ Publish installation can make manual work automatic and get your content in front of your audience, regardless of the platform
Print to Web
Web to Print
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What does eZ OpenMagazine
It manages the combination between master pages, content and styles
What does eZ OpenMagazine
It manages the combination between master pages, content and styles
What does eZ OpenMagazine
It manages the combination between master pages, content and styles
What does eZ OpenMagazine
It manages the combination between master pages, content and styles
web to print: 1. consistency 2. structure 3. tracking
What does eZ OpenMagazine
It manages the combination between master pages, content and styles
What does eZ OpenMagazine
It manages the combination between master pages, content and styles
A magazinestructure
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Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Example: BMW pagestructure
• One main image
• One long article
• Six embedded images
• Five pages
titlesummary (rich text)
authorbody (rich text)
emphasized texts
eZ OpenMagazine in action
• Content structure: title, abstract, author, body, images, etc
• Style structure: text frames, image frames, paragraphs, rich text
First step: define the structure of a document (section):
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How? Through tagging: giving a semantic value to the content
Creating a magazine with eZ
• Organize your on-line magazine structure: magazine issues, main sections, etc
• Define the type of content: articles, images, blogs, products, authors, advertisements, etc
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Uploading the templates
• to manually upload every single InDesign file (IDML)
• to massively upload many IDML files at once (eZ Multiupload)
• to automatically upload the images(synchronizing a remote directory with client’s directory)
eZ OpenMagazine provides different interfaces:
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Working with eZ Publish
• to edit the content
• to apply a style to the content
• to choose an existing layout template
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Exporting the content
• to manually download every InDesign file (IDML) and relative images
• to automatically download the whole magazine, once it has been completed (using the multiplatform tool eZ Transfer)
eZ OpenMagazine provides different interfaces:
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... the last details before printing!
• Open the IDML files with Adobe InDesign
• Edit the files and fix the last details
• Send the magazine to print or digital magazine!
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Design fine-tuning
Focusing on the “web to print”...
• Re-using predefined templates
• Organizing your templates in eZ OpenMagazine’s repository
How to get more benefits from eZ OpenMagazine?
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OpenMagazine supported featuresContent
consistencyContent structure
Content tracking
Styles Master pages
Technology
Weekly / monthlyMagazine Fully Fully Fully Fully Fully IDML
predefined templates
Custom
CatalogueFully Fully Fully Partially Fully Generic IDML
templates
AutomaticCatalogue Fully Fully Fully Partially Partially Data merge
Frequent
NewsletterFully Fully Fully Fully Fully IDML
predefined templates
Custom
NewsletterPartially Fully Fully Partially Fully Generic IDML
templates
Brochure/Flyer Partially Fully Fully Partially Fully Generic IDML templates