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David BlatnerNo, InDesign is not restrictive when it comes to design; that’s why it’s the leading layout tool in the world!
PDF does have significant limitations on what it can do, but what you’re describing doesn’t seem to match those limitations.
If hyperlinks are underlined, they probably need to edit whatever character style is applied to that text (probably “Hyperlink”). Changing other colors shouldn’t be an issue.
When you say “menu,” you’re not talking about animated menus that drop down, are you? PDF normally can’t do those.
You can post photos on dropbox or Imgur or elsewhere and post links here if you want.
David BlatnerColby, LOL, I should have started by testing this myself… because I just tried it now and InDesign CC 2020 does export endnotes as part of the HTML export process (File > Export). It even makes the links automatically! It looks like exactly what you would need. Just export html and drop that into WordPress.
Are you not experiencing this?
David BlatnerDo the end notes need to remain linked in the HTML? Do you want the endnotes on the same page (in WordPress) as the article, or different?
There really aren’t any great solutions, but it seems like there should be some solution!
David BlatnerAndrea: Unfortunately, VERY little has changed since 2016… I talked about this, and offered some options, during my PePcon talk (at this year’s CreativePro Week). PDF, in particular, hasn’t budged. Fixed-layout EPUB is pretty awesome, though, as long as people have a reader (all apple devices work great).
David BlatnerAh… just to confirm: are you talking about footnotes or endnotes. Or do the InDesign documents have footnotes and you want them to turn into end notes? If so, you may want to run one of the scripts that Peter K has created here: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html
David BlatnerIt’s rare that file corruption would cause all the text in a frame to become overset. It’s almost certainly something else, such as one of these articles:
https://indesignsecrets.com/the-case-of-the-disappearing-text.php
https://indesignsecrets.com/5-reasons-unexpected-overset-text.php
David BlatnerHi Dan, that sounds very frustrating. It’s hard to say what might be happening there. Indexing is never fun, no matter what tool you use. But this does sound rather mysterious.
Without seeing the document and how you indexed it, it’s hard to say what could have gone wrong. There are other indexing tools, such as Indexmatic https://www.indiscripts.com
But you should be able to make this work with InDesign alone.
David BlatnerThank you for letting us know, Ann! Yes, Endnotes are a “work in progress” for InDesign. I hope the team continues to improve them over time.
David BlatnerWhen you say “online,” do you mean you’re exporting HTML? Are you using File > Export to get that HTML? How should the footnotes appear in that situation? (I don’t think HTML really has a native concept of footnotes.)
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