Reply To: InDesign Mag 55: HTML to InDesign

Hi David,
Yes, I have.

I spend all my time creating print books and EPUBs for publishing on Lulu (I’ve been doing that for ten years now, obviously EPUBs for just a couple, since retiring from the UK to live in Spain).

The system I’ve developed is to:
Open the Web pages in my Opera Browser (I’m PC not Mac, and have the full suite of Adobe CC)
View the Souce code for each page and copy that to save as a HTML file.
Open the HTML file in Dreamweaver and do a rough edit to clear out the junk.
Then with Adobe Acrobat 11 convert the HTML file to a PDF.
Open the PDF with Recosoft PDF2ID to create a new INDD.
Then format the new INDD making great use of Paragraph and Character styles, and chopping out surplus stuff that wasn’t got rid of in the initial rough edit.

Obviously not fully automated, but well worth the effort to achieve the end results.

Regards, Ken.