Export content to dreamweaver (cs5) – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Flash (SWF)
Flash (FLA)
Digital Editions (EPUB)
XML
What gets exported
What doesn’t get exported
Export
Export to a SWF file that’s ready to be viewed immediately in Flash Player or on the web. A SWF file can include buttons,
hyperlinks, and page transitions such as wipe, dissolve, and page curl. See Create interactive SWF (Flash) files for the web.
Export to a FLA file that can be edited in Adobe Flash Professional. See Create FLA files for the web.
Export a document or book as a reflowable XHTML-based eBook that is compatible with the Adobe Digital Editions
.
For advanced repurposing workflows, export the content from InDesign in XML format, which you can then import into an HTML editor such
as Dreamweaver. See Working with XML.
Export content to Dreamweaver (CS5)
Exporting to XHTML is an easy way to get your InDesign contents into web-ready form. When you export contents to XHTML, 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 XHTML 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.
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.
InDesign does not export objects you draw (such as rectangles, ovals, and polygons), movie files (except for SWF),
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 For > Dreamweaver.
3. Specify the name and location of the HTML document, and then click Save.
4. In the XHTML Export Options dialog box, specify the desired options in the General, Images, and Advanced areas, and then click Export.
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.
XHTML export options
In the XHTML dialog box (File > Export For > Dreamweaver), specify the following options.
General options
The General area includes the following options.
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.
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