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Alam5EC6
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December 10, 2024
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Export HTML5 or Publish online > export html5 package in CC2025

  • December 10, 2024
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I am an InDesign Plugin developer and in the new release of InDesign CC 2025 I found a new feature which export a document as an HTML5 package using as follows

Export as an HTML5 or File > publish online > export html5 package

 

 

 

 

But I could not find any documentation in InDesign SDK or in scripting api how we could export a document as an HTML5 package.

 

Looking input either using scripting api or some service that we need to handle in sdk plugin

Any help here will be appreciated. 

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    Dirk Becker
    Brainiac
    December 15, 2024

    There is a dedicated "InDesign developers prerelease" program in the prerelease site. Ask there. Maybe they're just behind on SDK + documentation or slashed them to cut hours until someone speaks up. Make sure you also mention scripting support.

     

    In the meantime I would try some experiments first, if I had the time:

    - add cheap plug-in based drawing, e.g. watermark via draw event. If it shows in the manually produced HTML5 package, you know that the service is local.

    - even cheaper - pull the plug on your internet while performing an export. If it still works, it is local.

    - set a few breakpoints and look around at the call stack. File requests to add headers to relevant facades to the SDK.

    - if it is cloud based, watch out for obscure separate web service SDKs in the developer site.

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      Alam5EC6Author
      Known Participant
      December 14, 2024

      I could not find a solution or documentation on HTML5 export - If someone has found anything then please share here

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      Pickory
      Brainiac
      December 14, 2024

      Hi, not all the new shiny things made it to the SDK or the scripting world.

       

      I suspect that you could do an ePub export and then expand the .epub package to access the HTML files for processing.

       

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      James Gifford—NitroPress
      James Gifford—NitroPress
      Brainiac
      December 14, 2024

      Would you like to offer a solution to the question?

       

       


      I'm not a Script Guy™. 🙂

       

      I'd suggest that manual export is not a difficult or time-consuming task and doesn't need to be scripted, at least until this oversight is corrected. (HTML5 export, in fact, bypasses all but one technical setting, so even export settings or a preset aren't needed.)

       

      My entire focus was that EPUB is not any kind of good intermediate format for eventual HTML use, even if it does have a script hook.

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