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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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Jill Orr

Participating Frequently

Is there a way to disable the pop-up on hover for the Publish Online button? It is annoying and unnecessary. If I need it I can click it as it is obviously there. I hope this isn't going to be a trend for new features.

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Aditi_Saraswat

Adobe Employee

Hi Jill,

The hover over pop-up will go away once you publish any document from this InDesign update(CC 2015.2).

Regards,
Aditi

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brian-bedesign

Participating Frequently

Hi Rahul and Adobe Community,

Just minutes after stepping out of my Adobe Max seminar with Saurabh Mahajan, learning about Publish Online for the first time, I received a call from a non-profit organization, The Center for Irish Music, looking for an inexpensive way to produce a digital experience for their annual report.

Publish Online was the perfect solution. They had plenty of assets: videos, songs, and images, so using this platform was a great way to showcase some of the talent of their musical instructors. Far better than any print piece could do. They loved that they could share this piece through email, social networks, and track analytics. Please check it out at:

https://indd.adobe.com/view/997d4357-4742-425f-b2e2-d71fdd4bafaf

I learned a lot about what works, and what doesn't, using this platform and would be happy to share that as well. madewithAdobePublishOnline‌

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rschletty

Participating Frequently

The Center for Irish Music annual report viewed well on my iPhone 6S Plus and in Safari in Mac OS X Yosemite. Videos don't play in either Safari browser. Just says "loading." I can right-click in OS X Safari and save the mp4 to desktop. But who would think of that?

My concern is for the longevity of this new Adobe publishing "tool." Google has instilled in us a fear of app discontinuation. Will this "Adobe Publish Online" annual report be accessible in five years? In one year?

https://indesignsecrets.com/publish-online-supports-embedding-indesign-documents.php

Of course, there are some caveats: You need to keep your Creative Cloud account up and running (because the document is published on Adobe's CC servers); and because Publish Online is a work-in-progress (Adobe calls it a "technology preview"), it may change significantly over time.

I was happy to see a PDF download option, clicked on it, but was surprised to see how large the PDF is – 62MB! Large even for a 47-page document. Not very well optimized. I opened the downloaed PDF in Acrobat Pro, did a "Save As" and clicked on "Reduce File Size." It shrunk down to 11MB and still has plenty of detail.

Nice idea. Looks slick. But the new Adobe interactive digital publishing technology has to work on all platforms to be a success.

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Anonymous

>Of course, there are some caveats: You need to keep your Creative Cloud account up and running (because the document is published

> on Adobe's CC servers);

This is something of a concern, I'm working on a project that is ideal for Publish Online which is intended to be posted (via Iframe) on an important website and stay there for some time. But I turn 80 next year and who knows how many more years I have. Are you saying that the link will only be there as long as I have a CC subscription?? If so I need to look for something other than Publish Online.

Jim

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gregh1988

Known Participant

The analytics for my documents appear to have been reset so do not show any of the full history for the views that the documents have received.

Any one else seen this or am I going a little crazy?

Is this something that is going to happen regularly with updates?

Thanks in advance,

Glenn

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sagar-khanna

Adobe Employee

Hi Glenn,

Please elaborate the issue you are facing. Have the views mentioned in the 'Document Trends' tab changed?

Currently we are tracking the URL of the document and not the embedded link in a webpage.

Regards,

Sagar

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gregh1988

Known Participant

Hi,

No it appears as if the stats for views have been reset recently, I have a document that was published a couple of weeks ago that I know has been viewed well over 175 times but it showed yesterday as no views by no visitors? All the other documents I have published are also very different to the last time I look dat them so something has changed. I guessed it may have got reset when the product updated?

All I have bit.ly linked to monitor the clicks and none are embedded in any webpages at this time.

Thanks

Glenn

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ciaomarian

Participating Frequently

On a placed movie media file, Controller Skin remains visible on Publish Online Preview even though I have it set for

Controller None in the Interactive Media menu. Show Controller on Rollover is also turn off.

I do not want to see the controller on these short movie clips.

Thanks for your help.

Marian

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AnshulJain19

Adobe Employee

Hi Marian,

Controller skin for videos are not yet supported in Publish Online, so default skin is always shows up for placed media file.

As a workaround, if you are creating media files then you can add little blank space at the bottom and when placed in InDesign, crop the video little from bottom. In this case skin would not show up and video will be fully visible.

Regards

-Anshul

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ciaomarian

Participating Frequently

I am placing cropped .mp4 movie files with no controller skin from the Indesign Interactive Media menu and they appear with a controller which is stretched beyond the boundaries of the published media.

I have had other issues with stretched media when published with fitting - crop.

How do I get media to show up without a controller skin?

How do I get cropped media to display without aspect stretching?

Thanks, Marian

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rellmer2

Participant

I have tried to publish online. I keep getting a message "To publish online, please sign in to the Creative Cloud" I am logged in though already. Do you have any solutions to this issue?

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

Open the Creative Cloud desktop app. From the "gear" icon select Preferences > General. Sign Out, then sign in again with your Adobe ID.

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rellmer2

Participant

Thanks that worked

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josiaht46194363

Participant

How do I disable this feature? It's acting like a magnet catching my cursor ceaselessly and really distracting me from doing my work. I need to stop this feature popping up all the time

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