Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 122)

114 USING INDESIGN CS4
Working with documents
4 In the XHTML Export Options dialog box, specify the desired options in the General, Images, and Advanced areas,
and then click Export.
A document with the specified name and an .html extension (such as “newsletter.html”) is created; if specified, a web
images subfolder (such as “newsletter-web-images”) is saved in the same location.
XHTML export options
In the XHTML dialog box (File > Export For Dreamweaver), specify the following options.
General options
The General area includes the following options.
Export Determines whether only the selected items or the entire document is exported. If a text frame is selected, the
entire story—including overset text—is exported.
If Document is selected, all page items from all spreads are exported, except for master page items that have not been
overridden and page items on invisible layers. XML tags and generated indexes and tables of contents are also ignored.
Bullets Select Map To Unordered List to convert bullet paragraphs into List Items, which are formatted in HTML
using the <ul> tag. Select Convert To Text to format using the <p> tag with bullet characters as text.
Numbers Determines how numbers are converted in the HTML file.
• Map To Ordered List Converts numbered lists into List Items, which are formatted in HTML using the <ol> tag.
• Map To Static Ordered List Converts numbered lists into List Items, but assigns a <value> attribute based on the
paragraph’s current number in InDesign.
• Convert To Text Converts numbered lists into paragraphs that begin with the paragraph’s current number as text.
Images options
From the Copy Images menu, determine how images are exported to HTML.
Original Exports the original image to the web images subfolder. When this option is selected, all other options are
dimmed.
Optimized Lets you change settings to determine how the image is exported.
• Formatted Preserves InDesign formatting, such as rotation or scale, as much as possible for web images.
• Image Conversion Lets you choose whether the optimized images in your document are converted to GIF or JPEG.
Choose Automatic to let InDesign decide which format to use in each instance.
• GIF Options (Palette) Lets you control how InDesign handles colors when optimizing GIF files. The GIF format
uses a limited color palette, which cannot exceed 256 colors.
Choose Adaptive (No Dither) to create a palette using a representative sample of colors in the graphic without any
dithering (mixing of small spots of colors to simulate additional colors). Choose Web to create a palette of web-safe
colors that are a subset of Windows and Mac
OS system colors. Choose System (Win) or System (Mac) to create a
palette using the built-in system color palette. This choice may cause unexpected results.
• JPEG Options (Image Quality) Determines the trade-off between compression (for smaller file sizes) and image
quality for each JPEG image created. Low produces the smallest file and lowest image quality.
• JPEG Options (Format Method) Determines how quickly JPEG graphics display when the file containing the image
is opened on the web. Choose Progressive to make the JPEG images display gradually and in increasing detail as they
are downloaded. (Files created with this option are slightly larger and require more RAM for viewing.) Choose
Updated 18 June 2009