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Question Re: Importing Styles (Dreamweaver html)

  • January 9, 2017
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I found a book in the public domain that I want to turn into an ebook. I started by scanning it into a PDF, then converting the PDF file to text. I then imported the text into Dreamweaver, so I could use html to style it and display it as a web page. Now I'm beginning to learn how to work with InDesign, and one of my first challenges is importing the text with all those styles (bold, italics, etc.) into InDesign.

I found an article @ http://indesignsecrets.com/exporting-and-importing-html-with-indesign.php that suggested it's a dim prospect, but the article is a bit dated. Can anyone tell me if there's a (hopefully not too convoluted) way to either import my Dreamweaver files into InDesign or export them in another format that can be imported into InDesign? I have a Mac and would therefore prefer to work with Pages. However, I do have Microsoft Word.

For future reference, what's the best way to begin processing manuscripts that I want to turn into ebooks? Can I use Dreamweaver, or is Microsoft Word the standard format?

Thank you.

Correct answer Derek Cross

MSWord is the standard word processing applilication for producing a manuscript and the styles can be bought into InDesign. The term eBook covers a number of formats such as PDF, FXL ePub and Reflowable text ePub. InDesign CC2015/17 can export these formats though the latter format needs very careful paragraph and character style formatting.

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Derek Cross
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January 9, 2017

MSWord is the standard word processing applilication for producing a manuscript and the styles can be bought into InDesign. The term eBook covers a number of formats such as PDF, FXL ePub and Reflowable text ePub. InDesign CC2015/17 can export these formats though the latter format needs very careful paragraph and character style formatting.

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    GeobopAuthor
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    January 9, 2017

    Thanks for the tip. I'll see if I can figure out a way to import Dreamweaver's styles into MS Word and take it from there.

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    January 9, 2017

    P.S. I discovered that if I preview my Dreamweaver file in a browser, then copy the text from the browser into a Word document, I can then import the Word file into InDesign, complete with italics, superscripts, colored text, etc. There are a lot of fine points I need to learn about, but it looks like this is going to work quite well.

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