Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 541)

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Exporting and publishing
Last updated 6/6/2015
Options for omitting graphics
Customize Adobe PDF presets
Export content to HTML
Exporting to HTML is an easy way to get your InDesign content into web-ready form. When you export content to
HTML, you can control how text and images are exported. InDesign preserves the names of paragraph, character,
object, table, and cell styles applied to the exported contents by marking the HTML contents with CSS style classes of
the same name. Using Adobe Dreamweaver or any CSS-capable HTML editor, you can quickly apply formatting and
layout to the contents.
What gets exported InDesign exports all stories, linked and embedded graphics, SWF movie files, footnotes, text
variables (as text), bulleted and numbered lists, internal cross-references, and hyperlinks that jump to text or web pages.
Tables can be exported to HTML as well. InDesign retains the table formatting, such as table and cell strokes. Tables are
assigned unique IDs, and can be referenced as Spry data sets in Dreamweaver. Placed audio and h.264 video files are
enclosed in HTML5 and tags. InDesign also exports objects you draw (such as rectangles, ovals, and
polygons), pasted objects (including pasted illustrator images), and text converted to outlines.
What doesn’t get exported InDesign does not export Hyperlinks (except for links to web pages and links applied to
text that jump to text anchors in the same document), XML tags, books, bookmarks, SING glyphlets, page transitions,
index markers, objects on the pasteboard that aren’t selected and don’t touch the page, or master page items (unless
they’re overridden or selected before export).
1 If you’re not exporting the entire document, select the text frames, range of text, table cells, or graphics you want to
export.
2 Choose File > Export and select HTML from the Save As Type list.
3 Specify the name and location of the HTML document, and then click Save.
4 In the HTML Export Options dialog box, specify the desired options in the General, Image, and Advanced areas,
and then click OK.
A document with the specified name and an .html extension (such as “newsletter.html”) is created; if specified, a web
images subfolder (such as “newsletter-web-images”) is saved in the same location.
HTML export options
In the HTML dialog box, specify the following options.
General options
The General area includes the following options.
Export Determines whether only the selected items or the entire document is exported. If a text frame is selected, the
entire story including overset text is exported.
If Document is selected, all page items from all spreads are exported, except for master page items that have not been
overridden and page items on invisible layers. XML tags and generated indexes and tables of contents are also ignored.
Content Order lets you specify the reading order of page objects.
Based On Page Layout
The location of the items on the page determines the reading order.