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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).
Reading order 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 (or another HTML editor) to rearrange and format the contents.
Before you export, you may want to influence the reading order by grouping related objects. Objects grouped in
InDesign are also grouped in XHTML.
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 > Cross-media Export > XHTML / 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 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.
XHTML export options
In the XHTML dialog box (File > Cross-media Export > XHTML / Dreamweaver), specify the following options.
General options
The General area includes the following options.
Export Determine 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.
Bullets Select Map To Unordered List to convert bullet paragraphs into List Items, which are formatted in HTML
using the
tag with bullet characters as text.
Numbers Determine how numbers are converted in the HTML file.
• Map To Ordered List Convert numbered lists into List Items, which are formatted in HTML using the
• Map To Static Ordered List Convert numbered lists into List Items, but assigns a attribute based on the
paragraph’s current number in InDesign.
• Convert To Text Convert numbered lists into paragraphs that begin with the paragraph’s current number as text.
Images options
From the Copy Images menu, determine how images are exported to HTML.
Original Exports the original image to the web images subfolder. When this option is selected, all other options are
dimmed.
Optimized Lets you change settings to determine how the image is exported.
• Formatted Preserves InDesign formatting, such as rotation or scale, as much as possible for web images.