Things have been improving in the past few days, we keep testing and soon we will release Pixotek’s magazine using this plug in, but in the process, we found a few issues that are getting fixed with this release, plus we added new functionality for those designs for the web, Scrollable Text.
That feature used to exist as a “Scrolling Frame” option in the old Folio Overlays panel, back when Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) was alive. DPS was sunset years ago, and by most current accounts that legacy panel option is effectively dead.
This is a Patreon supporters only release, release 0.4.5 is the one I will be uploading for review in Adobe’s Marketplace and it will also be available in Patreon for everyone.
What’s changed for this release
- Fixed threaded text frames duplicating their entire story — each frame now exports only the copy InDesign actually flows into it, instead of overflowing past its bounds.
- Headline text no longer sits low in its frame — the first line now starts right at the top of the frame the way InDesign draws it, instead of being nudged down by extra space above it.
- Body copy that flows around images gets the same correction, so wrapped paragraphs start at the right height too.
- Browsers that don’t support the modern text-trimming feature now get a close approximation instead of the old, lower position.
- If a frame’s first line was set to Cap Height, x Height, Leading or a fixed distance in InDesign’s Text Frame Options, that setting is now carried through to the export instead of everything being treated as “Ascent”.
- Added a new “Scrollable Text” item to the PressTo5 menu, which opens its own screen in the panel.
- Select a text frame and click the button to mark it as scrollable; click again with the same frame selected to unmark it.
- A marked frame exports at the exact height you drew it in InDesign, with its own scrollbar, instead of stretching to fit its copy.
- Marked frames keep their type at full size — the exporter no longer shrinks the text to make it fit, since scrolling is the point.
- Marked frames always start at the first line, so nothing is hidden above the top of the box.
- The mark is invisible and lives on the frame itself, so it survives saving, reopening and any edits to the wording.
- Frames you haven’t marked export exactly as they did before — nothing about your existing documents changes.
- Renamed the menu from “HTML5 Exporter” to “PressTo5”
- The “PressTo5” menu now disappears on its own a few seconds after the plugin is turned off, removed or quits, instead of staying in the menu bar until you restart InDesign.
- Fixed the URL when clicking in the ABOUT menu
- Paragraph alignment is now read from InDesign. Before, the whole text frame took its alignment from its first paragraph, so a flush-right sign-off under justified body copy exported flush left. Each paragraph now keeps its own alignment.
- Text in non-rectangular frames stays inside the frame. The copy now flows inside the actual shape, line by line, the way InDesign sets it.
- Lines that taper to a point now break like the design. Where a frame narrows to a corner, the first line is short instead of running the full width.
- Text is no longer shrunk because of a blank line. InDesign doesn’t count empty paragraphs as lines; the export did, so any frame with a blank line in it looked one line over and had its type reduced.
- Text that genuinely wraps a line early is corrected without moving the baselines. Only the letterforms shrink; the line spacing stays exactly as InDesign set it, so everything positioned against those baselines stays put.
- Frame inset spacing is now honored. If a frame has padding set in Text Frame Options, the copy starts where InDesign starts it rather than flush against the frame edge.
- Gradient-filled text now keeps its gradient when exported, instead of turning solid black.
- Photos in frames were being drawn twice, and the extra copy hid the frame’s color and blending effects — now they’re drawn once and look right.