That would help somewhat, but it would not create the single XFL file he desires. Meaning, you could script ID to export each doc in a Book as a separate XFL file. In theory, it would be possible to automate some of this via scripting. Your question sparked a lively email debate among several people I forwarded it to, including Michael Ninness, the InDesign senior product manager, who wrote:

Each page of your InDesign document appears as a single frame in Flash CS4. I think the answer is: XFL is really a 1.0 feature for both InDesign and Flash, and Adobe hasn’t gotten around to making it “robust” and fitting it into all the places it needs to go yet.įor those of you who don’t know, XFL is Adobe’s new interchange format that lets you export your pages from InDesign CS4 and import them into Flash. Is there something I’m missing? Why wouldn’t they include XFL as an option for exporting a book?

I had hoped I could bring them all into an ID book and export to XFL but the only options are PDF and Digital Editions. Like most magazines, we work with separate InDesign files for each story.

Export from indesign to powerpoint