"Package for GoLive" (shudder)

[gnubler]

I gave this feature a try today for the first time ever (as an HTML purist it made me cringe). It crashed my InDesign three times. I tried it on another workstation here, same thing: crashed. But before it crashes it generates a folder with some files in it: a PDF of the layout, layout.xml (0Kb), root.xml (3Kb), story_6457.incd (0Kb), and an images folder. These files are useless to me; I expected an HTML file that I could clean up in a text editor, and an images folder.

The reason I'm experimenting with this is to turn a relatively simple classified ad page layed out in Indy into a webpage, complete with images where they belong, styles, etc. Has anyone used this feature and should Indy be generating more files than what I've listed above? I'm poking around on the Adobe forums now for more info.

We're running XP SP2 and Adobe CS.

[almaink]

CS3 Indy does a better job, although I've never had Indy crash while trying to export as XML. I've found just exporting as a PDF or svgz to still be the best option for converting for web tho.

[gnubler]

I'm actually experimenting with creating XML tags in the InDesign layout - I think it might work for me. When I export the page as XML I end up with tagged text which I can then further edit in a text editor to convert to HTML. The only thing it's not doing is exporting the images, but there's not that many so I'll just manually place them.

[Joe]

I tried this on CS on the Mac. It didn't crash for me but it does not generate an HTML of the final page. The only HTML it makes is a job content listing and I see no use for it. The only thing it made for me that looked like the Indy page was the PDF it created which you can then open in Acrobat and save as HTML.

I'm sure the XML or SVGZ will work as well. There's always more than one way to skin a cat (or squirrel)...

[gnubler]

Huh. I just tried that - saving the PDF as HTML, and got good results. It even retains boldface fonts and paragraph breaks. Again, it's kicking out all the images (despite generating an images folder with downsampled JPGs) but I can just manually place them.