Ditto on the LOL.

Just for fun, export the document as a JPEG, and say, “There you go. Looks exactly like the print page, and it’s ready for the website.”

In theory, you could use the same XML in DW and ID, but in my experience, it’s too fragile to be a practical solution if people need to actually edit the content and revise the ID pages. Those pesky humans always get in the way! ; )

Check out Jim Maivald’s excellent book, A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML if you haven’t already. It’ll set the expectation level, and has some very clever tricks.

Also, tell your boss he can buy a magic button (aka a cross-media publishing system), but it’s probably gonna cost a big bag of $. Depends how much magic he wants in the button. A copy of DW and a little patience is a lot cheaper.

ID can export content (text, and to some degree graphics) as HTML (using the XHTML export feature in the File menu). But it completely ignores page design (“geometry,” where things are on the page).

I hope that helps.

Please note: This is not MY question. This is what my boss wants to know. Because, of course, the tutorials and the reference guides are all wrong. Either that or we have “been sold a bill of goods.” (“The magic button” is a direct quote.)

Once you stop laughing, can you give me an answer that my boss might accept? He clearly thinks that I am a stupid moron.

Thank you. You have no idea how frustrated I am, but he’s my boss so I can’t kill him.

Lynn

I have quite a few InDesign articles, including project walk-throughs and such that are most easily accessed through the InDesign tag on my site.

Thank you again for the mention!

luckily i reach here, now I know how to do it, it is simple, higlight the font, click type and create outline.

Thanks indesign secrets.

Most peopel are very helpful there. But welcome to the internet, no matter what forum, site, club, community etc that you’re in, there will always be one or two people that have superioty complexes, and there will always be the ones that go on with their friends and single out and pick on people.

Sometimes the superioty complex isn’t that at all, it’s just frustration as they may have tackled that issue on several occasions in the past month and would rather people used the search function first.

But that’s the way forums and communities are.

While writing my original post I did have you guys starting a forum as a suggestion, but I removed it because:
- only covering InDesign means people still have to visit multiple sites to get help: a site for Photoshop, one for Illustrator, one for InDesign, yet another site for Dreamweaver, etc. Either do it big and cover everything (merge/co-operate with other blogs), or don’t bother.
- covering more than just InDesign (the entire Creative Suite + other vendors’ programs) doesn’t fit with the blog’s name.
- (experienced) moderators are a must, but not everyone knowledgeable makes a good moderator

Just the way I see it. Don’t agree? I’ll blame it on my glasses

Or are you talking about a different kind of community? We have considered launching forums here, if there is enough interest.