[Sigia-l] Adobe InDesign UI elements

Jesse James Garrett jjg at jjg.net
Wed Mar 31 21:06:32 EST 2004


On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Listera wrote:

> "Michael Kay" wrote:
>
>> What I am referring to are widgets like those in Visio and some have
>> created for Illustrator.
>
> There's a difference between application-specific stencils (like 
> Visio) and
> vector art that can be integrated into a stencil (like those for Visio 
> or
> OmniGraffle). If you can find something that Illustrator can parse 
> then you
> can save it in several formats that inDesign can import.

InDesign has a "Library" file format (.indl) that is roughly equivalent 
to the "stencil" concept in Visio. An InDesign library of wireframe 
components would fit the bill for what Michael has asked for, if such a 
thing existed, which to my knowledge is not the case.

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