Quark to InDesignCS3 Conversion Guide - InDesign User Group

what’s the easiest way to convert an
InDesign layout into a web page?
InDesign users who do not frequently
move content from print
to the web, or who don’t have an
extensive amount of print content to
repurpose, can quickly and easily
repurpose the text and graphics in
an InDesign layout for use in web
pages through rich copy and paste.
When you copy an InDesign graphic
and paste it into a web page in
GoLive, the Save For Web dialog
box is displayed. The controls in
this dialog box let you specify the
type of graphic (JPEG, GIF, PNG-8,
PNG-24, or WBMP) that’s created
during conversion and other settings.
Cross-Media Publishing
when you export to XhtmL, you have
different options for Digital Editions
(left) or Dreamweaver (right).
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More and more publishers need to repurpose content that appears in
their printed publications. Often, these publishers take text and graphics used in
books, magazines, newspapers, and other print layouts, and repurpose or publish
them on websites or in digital publications, or they syndicate this content to other
publishers. InDesign CS3 is tightly integrated with Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3 and
continues to work with other web editors, such as Adobe GoLive®, to make crossmedia
publishing easier.
what other options does InDesign
offer for exporting content to the web?
InDesign enables true multiformat
publishing, including the ability to
reuse page layouts on the web, by letting
you export layouts as XHTML.
When you export to XHTML for
web use (File > Cross-Media
Export > XHTML/Dreamweaver),
the XHTML Export Options dialog
box lets you specify what content is
exported (Selection or Document),
how images are handled, and CSS
and JavaScript options. When you
export to XHTML, InDesign
paragraph, character, and object
styles are converted to group classes
so you can easily format the XHTML
content using cascading style sheets.
After you export InDesign content
to XHTML, you can open the resulting
HTML file with Dreamweaver,
GoLive, or any web editor, and make
changes or additions as needed.