Workflow

This document is about the basic workflow of setting up and creating an IDML document.

Set up your document like that:

<?php 

use IDML\Content;

$content = new Content();

The most objects need to be registered in the content class. This looks like that:

<?php

$content
    ->addParagraphStyle($myParagraphStyle)
    ->addCharacterStyle($myCharacterStyle)
    ->addColor($myColor)
;

When your document is ready and every piece of content has been created, create a new writer object and give it your content:

<?php

use IDML\Writer\File\Tree;
use IDML\Writer\Writer;

$writer = new Writer(
    $content, 
    new Tree()
);

This will create your content with absolute paths, absolute numbers and all the things you defined before.

You can create an IDML out of that now:

<?php

$writer->create('mypath/myfile.idml');

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