Back

If your email is not recognized and you believe it should be, please contact us.

  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.Login

InDesign Mag 55: HTML to InDesign

Tagged: 

Return to Member Forum

  • Author
    Posts
    • August 21, 2013 at 10:01 am #64955
      Chuck Nigash
      Member

      Why not print a PDF from the web, spend $199 and buy PDF2ID? Let Recosoft translate the PDF to ID. Done in a minute or something. Seems that if you are serious enough about having a web-first workflow and don’t have an XML route figured out, then this is the easiest hack of all.

      To me, it makes sense to manage content in the middle — not in html or InDesign. This is channel publishing 101. But if you want to translate html easily, PDF2ID is the slam dunk.

    • August 22, 2013 at 8:40 am #64968
      lasatalayas
      Member

      See https://creativepro.com/topic/html-to-indesign-cc

    • August 22, 2013 at 9:24 am #64974
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Interesting idea! Have you done this successfully? How do you deal with all the extra stuff, like ads and banners and navigation, and so on? You don’t want to import that stuff.

    • August 22, 2013 at 9:42 am #64977
      lasatalayas
      Member

      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.

    • August 22, 2013 at 9:45 am #64979
      Salieri
      Member

      Is there a missing question from the top of this post?

    • August 22, 2013 at 9:54 am #64981
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      @Salieri: I think @lasatalayas was simply referring to the article in InDesign Magazine issue 55 (which came out yesterday). Michael Murphy wrote a detailed article with several methods to import HTML into InDesign.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 5 reply threads
  • The forum ‘General InDesign Topics (CLOSED)’ is closed to new topics and replies.
Forum Ads