Setting the Export File Options

InDesign gives you many export options. In each case you choose a file format, name the file, and save it to a location.

To choose a file format:

1.

Choose File > Export. The Export dialog box appears .

The options for exporting InDesign documents.

Tip

You will not see the options for exporting text unless your insertion point is inside a text frame.

2.

Give the file a name and set the location.

3.

Choose one of the following formats from the Save as File Type (Win) or Format (Mac) menu:

Adobe InDesign Tagged Text	Creates a text file formatted with codes (see page 359).
Adobe PDF	Creates an Acrobat file (see page 493).
EPS	Creates a file that can be placed as a graphic (see page 508).
InDesign Interchange	Creates a special format that can be used for converting InDesign CS2 documents so they can be opened by the InDesign CS application (see page 511).
JPEG	Converts the page or selected elements into a raster image that can be used in a Web page (see page 511).
Rich Text Format	Exports selected text with formatting that can be read by most word processing applications (see page 516).
SVG and SVG Compressed	Creates scalable vector graphics that can be viewed on the World Wide Web (see page 513).
Text Only	Exports selected text without any formatting (see page 516).
XML	Creates text formatted with the Extensible Markup Language that offers customizable definitions and tags. (Working with XML is beyond the scope of this book. I recommend "Real World Adobe InDesign CS2," by David Blatner and Olav Martin Kvern, for their expertise on this topic.)

4.

Click Save. This opens the options dialog box for each format.