Overview
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Extract content and layouts from InDesign and transform them into HTML, which can be used to create ebooks, web and mobile apps, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What is HTML?
- Why HTML?
- Why build in InDesign?
- What HTML can and cannot do
- Project examples
- Which option is right for your project?
- Exploring the HTML export options available in InDesign
- Exploring the EPUB export options available in InDesign
- Using in5 to export a layout from InDesign to HTML
- Posting HTML to the web
- Publishing as an EPUB
- Embedding HTML: DPS, EPUB, and elsewhere
- Repurposing HTML content for a blog post or email
- Creating a web app
- Converting to a mobile app using the Baker framework
- Converting to a mobile app using PhoneGap Build
- Creating a mobile app with Amazon
- Export tagging styles
- Adding hyperlinks to text
- Formatting lists
- Conditional text
- Adding alt text
- Controlling image quality with custom rasterization
- Using object styles
- Using the Articles panel
- Using anchored objects to wrap images in text flow
- Text styling and font embedding
- Ensuring proper color conversion
- How are page sizes, liquid layouts, and alternate layouts involved?
- Using XML
- Using custom CSS to modify appearance
- Using custom JavaScript to modify functionality
- Next steps
