The IDMLlib is a Java library that makes working with InDesign® IDML files easier than ever. By providing a simple but powerful interface to all information inside an IDML file, the IDMLlib allows programmers to extract, modify and create new content without the hassle to learn the complete IDML specification but to keep everything compatible with InDesign®

Programmers are now able to to create or compose new IDML documents from existing content, without even seeing any XML, by just using standard Java syntax.

Whether you want to export InDesign® compatible Snippets from your Content Management System, create a custom IDML Marketing Portal or develop a webbased IDML translation workflow, the IDMLlib technology will reduce the expense and allows a shorter time to market for your solution.

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The IDMLlib 1.1 release is imminent and brings a lot of new features, besides the already advertised Read/Write and Snippet support. We started a new blog as a way to introduce the new features and give you some ideas what is possible with the new IDMLlib 1.1 release, starting today. We will also use this blog to give early insight of upcoming features like CS5 support and discuss the features with you.

So this blog is also a communication tool for us, to see which features are important to you.To make this as useful as possible we will focus on one topic for each blogpost, outline the problem and show you how you can solve the task with the IDMLlib, including example code. All sourcecode published here, will be part of the IDMLlib package and can be used freely for IDMLlib customers.

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