from Dreamweaver to InDesign? printing out a website

[arnieds]

What's the best way to convert a large Dreamweaver webpage to InDesign for printing?

[Mike Witherell]

Save-As to PDF? Print to PDF?

[BobLevine]

Open it in a browser and print it. Why do you think you need InDesign for that?

[natural_child157F]

Save As PDF and use a PDF converter, like our PDF2DTP to open it fully in InDesign to make further edits. I assume you want to edit stuff, which is why you want to get it into InDesign...

Friendly Regards,

David Dilling

Markzware

[maxwithdax · Accepted solution]

If your test server is live you can always use Acrobat and Create from Web Page

1. Open  Adobe Acrobat

2. File –> Create PDF –> From Web Page.

3. Click “Capture Multiple Levels”

4. Choose Get entire site (or whatever levels you want to pdf)

5. You can review the Settings to print landscape if you want

6. Click “Create”.

[arnieds]

This is not helpful. When you save as a .pdf you can't format the text for printing in Acrobat. It adds carriage returns. You can't adjust the column size, or wrap around graphics. You can't place the text in InDesign and lay it out for printing. How do you get the InDesign features from a Dreamweaver file?

[maxwithdax]

Initially you asked how to PRINT it from InDesign. Being able to fully edit every paragraph, style, format and margin that initiated from an html doc is not possible to my knowledge. If you want to end up with a fully editable document within InDesign it is going to take some work on your end. Sorry.

--Dax

[BobLevine]

Copy and paste it.