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David BlatnerKeymaster@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.
David BlatnerKeymasterPDF is not dead. But Flash is dying pretty rapidly. There is no doubt that HTML5 is the future, but it’s not really there yet for most distribution models. It may take the form of EPUB3 at some point, but that’s not clear. DPS does a lot, isn’t necessarily the answer either. For example, none of the animation features in InDesign currently work with DPS. They do work with App Studio (which is now owned by Quark, but they’ve given up demanding that people use QX, and now they’re happy to support ID users).
If it feels like there are no good answers, that’s only because that is correct. But no, PDF isn’t a waste; it’s just that PDF used to be good for every device, and now it’s not. Currently there is no file format that works everywhere. Big sigh.
David BlatnerKeymasterInteresting 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.
David BlatnerKeymasterI don’t think there’s any easy way to do this… you could probably harvest them (pull them out of InDesign) by exporting the file as HTML and then using a grep that strips out everything except hyperlinks. But that would just give you a list. There’s no way to easily update them by importing a list or something like that.
Though yes, perhaps you could hire a scripter to write something that would do this.
David BlatnerKeymasterSorry we can’t help you with install problems. That does seem strange. You’d need to find that information at the Adobe support site: https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install.html
David BlatnerKeymasterdhrose: Patience, please! There aren’t always easy answers for every question.
You might take a look at my lynda.com title on Interactive PDF. But the quick version is that: there is no easy, perfect answer anymore. Animations, in particular, do not transfer to iOS devices like the iPad.David BlatnerKeymasterSteve, take a look at my title on interactive PDF at lynda.com… but the quick version is: Until Adobe updates their Reader for iOS, you’re just going to have to use a different reader (and probably one that costs money). It’s an unfortunate situation.
David BlatnerKeymasterThanks, Jongware. I have fixed the original links in this forum thread. As it turns out, the full links are usually there, but they’re hidden in the HTML as an href. But the “visible link” is wrong. So it’s easy to fix when I find them (but it’s hard to find them).
David BlatnerKeymasterHm. Saves for me. Are you on Mac or Windows?
David BlatnerKeymasterOh! It sounds like you have Page Information turned on in the Marks section… no, I don’t think there’s any way to change that data easily. Those are just for the printer to see, right? So they want it to say “3” instead of “iii”.
David BlatnerKeymasterThat’s odd. Are you quitting properly? Remember that ID only saves its preferences when it successfully quits. So if you End Task/Force Quit, or if you crash, it won’t save it. Are other preferences being saved?
David BlatnerKeymasterThat’s weird. It looks right on screen in InDesign but when you export PDF with file>export the numbers change? That seems very wrong.
David BlatnerKeymasterNo, InDesign doesn’t do that automatically. You would have to flow the text and then apply the master pages. Alternately, you could create a template document with the correct text frames already in place on each page, and each page assigned with the correct master page. Then you would just place the text into the first page’s frame, and it would flow through all the pages automatically. That’s probably the easiest.
There are other tools for more complex auto-flowing, such as: https://in-tools.com/products/plugins/autoflow-pro/ but I’m not sure you need that for the relatively simple job you’re describing.
David BlatnerKeymasterOh my goodness, Reno, you are right, and I am officially beet red with embarrassment. I haven’t indexed one of my books for a while, an I had completely forgotten that Adobe had added that feature years ago.
The reason I was oblivious to it, I think is that you must have all the book documents open at the same time for that feature to work.
I still insist that indexing is hell, though. ;)
David BlatnerKeymasterIndexing is hell, in my humble opinion. And indexing multiple documents in a book is just multiple iterations of hell.
No, there is no way that I know of to see all the index topics (entries, titles, whatever you want to call them) and their numbers throughout a book at the same time. It’s horrible.
The index file should be a separate file on disk, or saved inside the book panel or something, so that you can do a good job indexing no matter where you are in the book project.
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