Using In5 with an InDesign Book

Question

Is it possible to use In5 to export an InDesign Book?

I can see the option to export as HTML5 from the dropdown menu if I am working on a single file, but once I have created all our articles into a book, there seems to be no option in the book menu to export as HTML5...

Answer 1

Exporting a book is not currently available.

Comments

Hi

Is there any time frame, where this will be implemented. Read somewhere else that it was on the drawingboard.
Im making a complete magazine and my mac is dying trying to handle all the pages in one indesign doc...
Alternativ could be a guide on how to merge many IN5 exportet files together :)

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The best way to approach this for the moment is to use the Move Pages functionality in InDesign:
http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/35535/can-you-merge-multiple-indd-files-into-one-editable-indd-without-using-book
http://paulblow.tripod.com/indesign_combine.html

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As i wrote, i have merged all my pages into one indesign document. But my mac or indesign cs6, has problems handling a document that huge... (2,8Ghz i7 with 8gb ram)
simple tasks take forever. So the book thing could be a big help.

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How large is the document?

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Around 280mb.. i have downscaled all images to 72dpi jpg non retina..

Theres alot of pages, objectstates and images...

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How many pages?

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40 pages in different lengths. But some pages have an opbjectstate with up to 30 pages inside...

I actually managed to export the complete magazine :) it took around 20 hours.

So the problem isn't in5... But indesign and my processor power when navigating around the document!
iMac - 2,8Ghz - i7 with 8gb ram...

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I see. The only alternative I can think of is to export each doc separately into subfolders and create a TOC doc that links to each chapter.

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Thanks for the reply. Maby that could work, ill look into! :)

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After updating to 2.3 and scaling all images to 100% jpg/png in photoshop. The processing of the book takes aporx 10 min... And ther is no problem editing the large document. So nice! :)

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Glad to hear it!

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maybe is it now possible? :D

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Not at this time. The documents have to be combined into one before exporting.