Adding Text And Tables From Indesign Packages - Adobe GOLIVE CS2 User Manual

Adding text and tables from InDesign packages

Adding text and tables from InDesign
From InDesign packages, you can add text frames and tables as HTML text, Smart Components, or Smart PDF
objects. You can quickly edit HTML text on web pages, but it ignores formatting and automatic updates from
InDesign. To apply those features, use Smart Components or Smart PDF objects. Smart Components function
similarly to other GoLive components, but to edit them you must use either GoLive's XML editor or Adobe InCopy.
Smart PDF objects create image files, which are larger but let you resize extensively and use unusual fonts that many
Internet viewers don't have installed.
When you add text assets to web pages, you can convert InDesign paragraph and character styles into CSS styles
stored in either internal or external stylesheets. Internal stylesheets let you specify unique formatting for each web
page; external stylesheets let you automatically reformat related package assets throughout a site. You can edit both
types of stylesheets in the CSS editor. Be aware, however, that CSS doesn't preserve all InDesign character and
paragraph attributes. For more information, see InDesign Help.
Note: The character encoding of the web page must match the character encoding specified in InDesign's Package For
GoLive dialog box; otherwise, characters like apostrophes and curly quotation marks may drop out. For information
about character encoding, see "To add elements or scripts to the head section" on page 163.
See also
"Components" on page 427
"Advantages of Smart Objects" on page 358
"To display the CSS Editor" on page 320
To add text or tables from an InDesign package
1 In the package window, select one or more text assets.
In the Asset Conversion Settings Inspector, select an Insert As option:
2
Editable Text Inserts standard HTML text.
Inserts an XML component.
Smart Component
Inserts a Smart PDF object.
Snapshot Image
3 To specify formatting for editable text and Smart Components, select Use CSS Styles, and then select a Definition
option:
Adds InDesign styles to an external stylesheet that you specify in the Reference box. (By default,
External CSS
GoLive specifies a styles.css file in the package's Accessories folder.)
Internal CSS Adds InDesign styles to a web page's internal stylesheet.
Removes InDesign formatting, but retains <span> tags so you can apply styles manually.
None
4 From the package window, drag the text assets to a web page.
From the InDesign Layout or HTML Preview tabs, you can also copy text and tables to web pages.
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