RE: InDesign CS2 file to Web topics?

["Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Brigitte-

I have CS3, so I don't know if this applies to CS2. You can't directly
export the file to a webhelp format, but you can export the content as HTML
and then use a help authoring tool. It will basically export the content,
but not the design.

File>Cross-Media Export>XHTML/Dreamweaver.

Additionally, you can export to XML by choosing File>Export, and then
selecting XML from the drop-down list.

Hope this helps!
-=Ed.

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> Hello all -
> 
> My company has recently produced a new (paper) manual using 
> InDesign CS2. The manual was put together by a graphic 
> designer (with my help!) because it was a rush job, and I did 
> not know the software (and didn't have it on my machine -- 
> I've been using Word for the last 7 years!). So, as I'm 
> sitting here teaching myself InDesign (I'm just getting 
> started - today), I get a call from one of our VPs asking 
> "What would it take to put portions of that manual into a 
> format accessible via the Web?" He wants parts of this manual 
> (topics) accessible and printable individually, but he does 
> not want people to be able to just print the entire manual. 
> We'd like to have something resembling help topics, not just 
> pages of the PDF'd manual (although that may be the first 
> version, just to get them out there).
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction? Does this 
> require additional software, or can these topics be generated 
> from the InDesign files? (There are several files, one for 
> each chapter, put together as one PDF.) If we can use 
> InDesign, what's the function I'm looking for? The graphic 
> designer is also looking into this, but I thought I would ask 
> all of you as well. The more I can get my hands in this the better!
>  
> Many thanks in advance for any morsels of wisdom you can 
> spare. Time is of the essence (as usual).
> 
> Brigitte Johnston
> 
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