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Tonight I went to my first meeting of the InDesign User Group. The two-hour presentation on "From InDesign to the Web" can be roughly summarized as follows:
1. Styles are good. Seriously, the first hour was a review of paragraph, character, and object styles - how to set them up, how to apply them, how to import them from another InDesign document, and how to map them from Word or RTF documents. Okay, there were people there who weren't aware of the last bit, but even as an amateur designer, I've already gotten the religion of styles.
2. Exporting an InDesign doc to xhtml (a CS3 feature, replacing "Package for GoLive") exports the style names, but none of the style attributes. Granted, the set of web-safe fonts is extremely limited, but it could at least export type sizes, colors, leading, etc. Jesus, Adobe, it's not rocket science.
3. Once you've re-defined all your styles in DreamWeaver, you can create an external CSS style sheet document by cutting and pasting the style code from the html document to the css document. Really. Did no one at Adobe/Macromedia go through the workflow, and say "This is a giant hack"?
1. Styles are good. Seriously, the first hour was a review of paragraph, character, and object styles - how to set them up, how to apply them, how to import them from another InDesign document, and how to map them from Word or RTF documents. Okay, there were people there who weren't aware of the last bit, but even as an amateur designer, I've already gotten the religion of styles.
2. Exporting an InDesign doc to xhtml (a CS3 feature, replacing "Package for GoLive") exports the style names, but none of the style attributes. Granted, the set of web-safe fonts is extremely limited, but it could at least export type sizes, colors, leading, etc. Jesus, Adobe, it's not rocket science.
3. Once you've re-defined all your styles in DreamWeaver, you can create an external CSS style sheet document by cutting and pasting the style code from the html document to the css document. Really. Did no one at Adobe/Macromedia go through the workflow, and say "This is a giant hack"?
