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Exporting and publishing
Last updated 11/30/2015
• Use a file name of no more than eight characters, followed by an extension of up to three characters. Many networks
and e-mail programs shorten long file names.
• Make sure that the file name has a PDF extension if users will view the file on a Windows computer or on the
Internet.
• To apply predefined Adobe PDF export settings for on-screen viewing, choose Smallest File Size.
Note: Adobe PDF files exported from InDesign documents that contain overprints or transparency effects are best viewed
in Acrobat 5.0 and later, or Adobe Reader 7.0 and later, with the Overprint Previewoption selected.
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Export content 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 can be exported to HTML as well. InDesign retains the table formatting, such as table and cell strokes. Tables are
assigned unique IDs, and can be referenced as Spry data sets in Dreamweaver. Placed audio and h.264 video files are
enclosed in HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags. InDesign also exports objects you draw (such as rectangles, ovals, and
polygons), pasted objects (including pasted illustrator images), and text converted to outlines.
What doesn’t get exported InDesign does not export Hyperlinks (except for links to web pages and links applied to
text that jump to text anchors in the same document), 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.