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Try the new Publish Online (Preview) feature in InDesign CC 2015 !

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Publish Online (Preview) is a technology preview feature that is available in English versions of InDesign CC 2015. The feature lets you effortlessly publish InDesign documents online. These documents can then be viewed with full fidelity in a desktop or tablet web browser with a delightful viewing experience, and without requiring a plug-in. If a richer document experience is desired, you can add buttons, slideshows, animation, audio, and video using the interactive authoring features of InDesign before publishing the document online.

The published document is intended to be a digital version of an InDesign document that will simply work on all devices that support a web browser. You can email the published document URL or simply share it on Facebook.

Try publishing a finished document by clicking the Publish Online button on the Application Bar or you can also choose File -> Publish Online (Preview)..To access or manage all your published documents, choose File -> Web Dashboard..For more details, see online help.

After trying it out, please give us feedback on the feature by filling this survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PublishOnline_Survey

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JB00074

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The documents that I usely publish with Publish Online present an issue that i am unable to overcome : when a page includes a sound file witch starts automatically on loading the page, this sound file does not play when the document is opened with IOS or with Android. Has anyone met with this problem, or am i doing something wrong ?

Included an excerpt of one of my document : it contains a sound file with automatic start up on fourth page : everything works fine in OS X 10.10.4 or Windows 8, but not with IOS or Androïd.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/3dc0522d-bb83-4f64-9e87-f5028c4a0ae0

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Diane Burns

Inspiring

This link is blank when I click it in Safari on a MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.5

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JB00074

Participating Frequently

This link works fine...

https://indd.adobe.com/view/3dc0522d-bb83-4f64-9e87-f5028c4a0ae0

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Armsinmotion

Participant

Can we disable the "publish online" button or move it? Every time I hover my mouse near the align tools I get the popup and it's annoying.

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BobLevine

Community Expert

Preference > Technology Previews.

Disable Publish Online

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ciaomarian

Participating Frequently

I find that this feature will work OK for days, and then discontinue to take uploads for days for no apparent reason.

Why?

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RussWillms

Participant

Does Publish Online allow me to create a button for the reader to SHARE a specific page through Facebook and Twitter?

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Monica Singh

Adobe Employee

No Russ!!, You cannot share a specific page of a published document.

Publish Online does not have this functionality as of now. You may need to publish the particular page of InDesign document and then share that to achieve this workflow.

Happy Publishing!!

Monica Singh

InDesign Engineering Team.

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RussWillms

Participant

Thanks for the reply!

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bekal16867878

Participant

When I first installed Indesign CC, I loved the publish online feature. I upgraded to a new machine, installed all the programs and this feature is no longer available. The button doesn't show up in the menu bar. It is not available under "file" and is grayed out in the indesign preferences. Please help!

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

Two things to try:

(1) Go to Preferences > Technologies Preview and make sure Publish Online is checked.

(2) Go to the Creative Cloud application. Click on the gear > Preferences > General. Sign Out and then Sign In with your Adobe ID.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Finally got a project for this feature.

It's going to be an interactive PDF, but I figured I could show case the online version as a "wow factor".

When I choose File>Export>PDF Intereractive, I can indeed to choose to publish online.

However, when I do this the only PDF I can upload to the servers is a PDF print?

Obviously that's a bit of an oversight, no?

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BobLevine

Community Expert

I don’t think so, Eugene.

Interactive PDF and Publish Online are so different the assumption would be that you check out the interactive version online and get a print version if you need it.

As we discussed previously, my opinion of interactive PDF is that it should be used for forms only. Anything else is just one kludge on top of another.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Regardless of personal opinion, we are swayed by the client.

And the fact remains, that rollover buttons simply don't appear in the downloaded PDF, it's just blank. I presume you can get them to be included, by having a saved preset, but you really should allow you to choose your settings at the time of Publish Online, with the usual dialog box.

To top it off the, Rollover Buttons I setup don't really work on the online version, but they are perfect in the Interactive PDF.

And I do still think it's an oversight, Interactive PDFs are still "in" - and the fact remains, I can't include an PDF (Interactive) in my Publish Online - and I should have that option.

As you say - they could be good for Forms - but good is it being able to publish online, if you can't download that interactive PDF from the Publish ONline platform?

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ciaomarian

Participating Frequently

Rahul, ,help!

When I cancel an upload to Publish Online Preview, afterwards it will not complete any additional uploads.

I'll wait a half hour for upload process to complete and will receive a message saying that there was an ERROR uploading file.

What is the work around?

Thanks, Marian

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Monica Singh

Adobe Employee

Hi Ciaomarrian,

Can you please confirm if you are getting this error while uploading the document or while cancelling it..

Because, your error is saying that it happens while uploading. It is expected to not upload further once the upload is cancelled by user.

We are doing some investigation around such errors that users are facing while uploading. It would be of great help if you can share your document with me..

Please share it with me via drop box @ monsingh@adobe.com

Thanks,

Monica Singh

InDesign Engineering Team.

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ciaomarian

Participating Frequently

Thanks, Monica.

I am uploading a 200 page multimedia epub for client reviews. This file has

lots of images, movies and sound associated with it and I upload at 96dpi.

I do have some successful uploads, which are currently posted, but on

subsequent revisions it stops uploading, in spite of repeated tries,

signing in and out of Adobe account and CC, and even rebooting my high

speed cable modem.

The error happens when uploading... I have learned never to cancel an

upload which is guaranteed failure, and seems like it damages the file.

I'm not sure how I can upload all the elements of this indesign

project...but maybe you can look at the successful uploads which are posted

on my account and let me know why it won't work now.

Also, you'll note that the music files all play on top of each over...

which drives clients crazy.

They don't understand why I can upload comps sometimes and not others...

they think I've done something wrong.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/27618892-3479-41ce-a61e-3f6b83656879

The above is a successful upload but i've been trying all nihght to

update... no go ;(

Thanks Marian

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Monica Singh <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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SteveGuluk

Participating Frequently

I like it! Works well and is a good resource where I can see benefit to my clients.

Only problem I see is that the content resides on Adobes server. It would be better if we also had the ability to serve these files from our own servers.

Is this a possibility or do we need to take this as a cool technology preview but then move to some other more open-source online publication technology to achieve the same goal but not be beholden to an Adobe server?

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BobLevine

Community Expert

That is not possible. An almost identical set of features are available via Fixed Layout EPUB.

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Diane Burns

Inspiring

Bob, if I may... I don't think FXL is the exactly right comparison. EPUBS, after all, require a reader. The beauty of a Publish Online-type capability is that it can be viewed via a browswer, with no special reader necessary. Would you agree?

In fact, I advocate in my Publish Online cover story, in the recent issue of InDesign Magazine, that it would be great to have a Publish Online SDK, where the technology could be put on one's own server. What do you think of that idea? Here is the issue of the magazine for reference (and for those who have a subscription: http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-magazine-issue-81-publish-online.php)

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Omega8719

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This Publish Online feature is the thing that really needed for Adobe Digital Edition. Few months ago I'm trying to create EPUB 3.0 FXL. After learning, trial and error, I'm facing the biggest challenge for this format. No good reader for Windows and Android. The best EPUB reader that could render almost flawlessly is only iBooks in iOS and Mac. But my audience is not exclusive for that platform.

Yes, I have trying bunch of EPUB 3.0 reader alternative including Adobe Digital Edition. But that app somehow can't read some font embedded in my epub when iBooks could show properly. It's really mystery. Readium, extension for Chrome capable render properly but their interface is bad and can't toggle the fullscreen mode. I didn't bother with Android since searching Windows app that barely worked is pain in the arse.

Yet by miracle Publish Online got everything right. Just how come? Now I'm wondering each division in Adobe didn't communicate each other. That Adobe Digital Edition really need some fix.

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

Publish Online was developed by the InDesign team. The Adobe Digital Edition has its own team. You probably should be providing feedback in that forum:

Adobe Digital Editions

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pixelseamstress

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Adobe does it again. They present a new "wow, look what you can do" application, have us poor schmucks test it out for them, then they turn around and boot us out, remove the product, or increase the fee so that only the super rich companies can buy it. Yeah, sure. This looks promising. It looks like a great solution to the new super ridiculously expensive DPS that we poor single edition users tested out for them. So, my question. Is this product going to cost us anything when it's all tested out by us?

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

First, to be clear, I'm not Adobe staff. I'm a long-term user who has worked with Adobe as an Adobe Community Professional and trainer.

I have seen absolutely no indication that Adobe is trying to "monetize" this feature by charging for it. Even though it uses Adobe servers, it is included in the subscription to InDesign or the Creative Cloud apps.

It's because of features like this that Adobe has been quite successful in drawing new users to the Creative Cloud platform, and has exceeded the expectation of financial people with the platform's growth.

The DPS features had a much different history and Adobe charged for those services for professionals and enterprise from the beginning. I agree with you that it was very disappointing to see the Single Edition be essentially removed for users who were not in large organizations.

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pixelseamstress

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Thank you for your reply. Is there an option to host those documents on our own servers instead of Adobe's servers?

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