Importing Html into Adobe Indesign?

Question

We are currently working on an pdf version of a newspaper at work, we have a .net website which captures the articles to publish, storing the content entered as html, so we can maintain styles like bold, underline, strike out. Once this is stored in the database we are planning to use Indesign to create the pdf. We currently we have a template built, but when we generate an xml document and import into Indesign the html tags are just written out. Is there a way around this, to get Indesign to maintain the tags as they would be in html? We just need some simple ones, like bold, strikeout, underling, center align. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, you can maintain the HTML tags in InDesign by using the 'Import XML' feature and creating an XSLT file that maps the HTML tags to the desired formatting in InDesign. You can use the InDesign's built-in formatting options to format the text as bold, underlined, strike-through, and centered.

Here's a general outline of the process:

Export the HTML content from your database as an XML file.

In InDesign, create an XSLT file that maps the HTML tags in the XML file to the desired formatting in InDesign.

In InDesign, use the 'Import XML' feature to import the XML file and apply the XSLT file to format the text according to the desired styles.

This will allow you to import the HTML content into InDesign and maintain the HTML tags as they would be in HTML, while also applying the desired formatting in InDesign.