Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 112)

INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
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6 For Image Quality, choose from a range of options that determine the trade-off between file compression (smaller
file size) and image quality:
• Maximum includes all available high-resolution image data in the exported file and requires the most disk space.
Choose this option if the file will be printed on a high-resolution output device.
• Low includes only screen-resolution versions (72 dpi) of placed bitmap images in the exported file. Choose this
option if the file will be displayed on-screen only.
• Medium and High include more image data than Low, but use varying levels of compression to reduce file size.
7 For Format Method, choose one of the following options:
• Progressive displays a JPEG image in increasing detail as it is downloaded to a web browser.
• Baseline displays a JPEG image after it has been completely downloaded.
8 Select or type the resolution for the exported JPEG image, and then click Export.
See also
“JPEG (.jpg) files” on page 335
Exporting content for the web
To repurpose InDesign content for the web, you have several options:
Export to XHTML Export a selection or the entire document to a basic, unformatted HTML document. You can link
to images on a server or create a separate folder for images. You can then use any HTML editor, such as Adobe
Dreamweaver® or Adobe GoLive®, to format the content for the web.
Copy and paste Copy text or images from the InDesign document and paste it into your HTML editor. This method
works especially well with Adobe GoLive, which preserves InDesign formatting of pasted content.
XML 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 also
“XML tools” on page 511
Export content to XHTML / Dreamweaver
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 images are exported, but the formatting of text is not preserved. However, 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 a CSS-capable HTML editor, such as Adobe
Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive, 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, and hyperlinks that jump to text. Tables are also exported, but certain
formatting, such as table and cell strokes, is not exported.
What doesn’t get exported InDesign does not export objects you draw (such as rectangles, ovals, and polygons),
movie files (except for SWF), hyperlinks (except for those that jump to text), pasted objects (including pasted
Illustrator images), text converted to outlines, XML tags, books, bookmarks, SING glyphlets, index markers, objects