🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks to everyone who responded.  Olav, I look forward to your response
with your examples!

"Rusty Wright" <rusty@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:4300D14705C686BCF63648B5E14455E1@in.WebX.aaQKaf7vad4...
> I'm still trying to figure out the various ways that I can use InDesign to
> produce a fancy formatted printed catalog and a much less fancy html web
> page, both with the same information.  This is not for me, it's for a
> graphics designer I'm trying to help.
>
> The problem is that the web page needs to be compatible with older
browsers,
> so this means no CSS or any newfangled html.  When you do a fancy layout
in
> InDesign and then export it to html it uses CSS to try and get the
placement
> the same.  The last time I tried (v1.5) it didn't do a very good job
either.
>
> With InDesign 2.0 there is XML support.  The way this works is you tag the
> document in InDesign, then export it to XML.  In order turn that XML into
> HTML you have to either have a special web server that handles XML, which
in
> my case is unworkable, or you use another program to do conversion (for
> example, Saxon was suggested to me). Additionally you need to write an
XSLT
> style sheet.
>
> The advantage of the XML method is that it should give total control over
> the HTML that's produced.  The disadvantages are needing this additional
> program to do the conversion, and writing and maintaining the XSLT files.
> The graphics designer I'm investigating this for is not interested in
> learning XML and XSLT.
>
> The other alternative that occured to me is to use some sort of page
> templates with InDesign; a fancy one for the printed catalog, and a
> barebones simple one for the web page and exporting that to html. I've
read
> the InDesign 2 manual but I can't tell how much control the page masters
> give you.  For example, I'd like to use 2 columns for the fancy layout and
1
> column for the web page, and different headers and footers; for example,
no
> page numbers on the web page version.  Would it be possible to do this
with
> InDesign using the master pages?
>
> Another alternative that came to mind is exporting the InDesign file to
XML,
> then importing that back in but to a different layout.
>
> And I'm not sure if InDesign's scripting provides anything that would help
> accomplish this.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts, feedback, etc. I'd love to hear it. Thanks.
>
>