Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 125)

119 USING INDESIGN
Working with documents
Last updated 11/16/2011
Export content to HTML (CS5.5)
Export 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 are also exported, but certain formatting, such as table and cell strokes, is not exported. Tables are
assigned unique IDs, so they can be referenced as Spry data sets in Dreamweaver. Placed audio and h.264 video files
are enclosed in HTML5 and tags.
What doesn’t get exported InDesign does not export objects you draw (such as rectangles, ovals, and polygons),
hyperlinks (except for links to web pages and links applied to text that jump to text anchors in the same document),
pasted objects (including pasted Illustrator images), text converted to outlines, 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.
Ordering lets you specify the reading order of page objects.
• Base On Page Layout The location of the items on the page determines the reading order.
If Base On Page Layout is selected, InDesign determines the reading order of page objects by scanning left to right and
top to bottom. In some instances, especially in complex, multi-column documents, the design elements may not
appear in the desired reading order. Use Dreamweaver to rearrange and format the contents.
• Same As XML Structure If Same As XML Structure is selected, the XML Structure panel controls the ordering of the
exported content and which content gets exported. If your content is already tagged, you can simply drag the tags in