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rahul vishwaroop
Adobe Employee
rahul vishwaroop
Adobe Employee
June 19, 2015
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Try the new Publish Online (Preview) feature in InDesign CC 2015 !

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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    ciaomarian
    Participating Frequently
    October 25, 2015

    I have been publishing to Online Preview for months now, but I just started getting this error which is very vague. Any Ideas?

    Thanks!

    An error occurred while uploading your document. Please try again.

    An error occurred while uploading your document. Please try again.

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    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 25, 2015

    Try signing off and on in the Creative Cloud app. Go to the Gear icon > Preferences > Sign Off. Then sign in with your Adobe ID.

    Also make sure InDesign is signed in with your Adobe ID.

    And if that doesn't work, restore your InDesign preferences:

    Trash, Replace, Reset, or Restore the application Preferences

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    ciaomarian
    Participating Frequently
    October 25, 2015

    Steve, thanks! It will publish a partial doc... one chapter,but not the

    full book as it used to.

    On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Steve Werner <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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    gregh1988
    Known Participant
    October 21, 2015

    I seem to have a strange behaviour.

    In a published document I have a button to advance to the next page.

    When this is clicked on th desktop the page advances two pages. This doesn't happen on a tablet or phone just on the desktop?

    This has been the case with eh last few documents I have published?

    Any thoughts.

    Thanks,

    Glenn

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    AnshulJain19
    Adobe Employee
    AnshulJain19
    Adobe Employee
    October 26, 2015

    Hello Glenn,

    With respect to your issue related to go to next page, can you please let me know in which browser (and which version) your are viewing your published document. What action (and on which event) you have associated with button.

    It would be great if you can share one such link where issue can be seen.

    Thanks

    -Anshul

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    gregh1988
    Known Participant
    October 26, 2015

    Anshul,

    Link to one of the documents I have published where the issue occurs: https://indd.adobe.com/view/a99f6646-fe86-468f-afb1-ac6047052529

    It happens on all of the navigation buttons that are on the Master Pages (Forward and backwards arrows at the bottom of the page (pg 2 onwards).

    I am using Go to Next Page and Go to Previous page in the Buttons panel. (Event on release or Tap).

    I have the issue in Safari on Mac 9.01 / Google Chrome Version 46.0.2490.71 (64-bit) / Windows Internet Explorer Version 11.0.9600.18053

    Oddly not an issue on Safari on iPad or iPhone or Google Chrome on iPad?

    Many thanks in advance of your help.

    Glenn

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    Lynn.Soderberg
    Participating Frequently
    October 19, 2015

    I have published a document and am seeing a problem. All url hyperlinks work fine when the pub is viewed on the desktop, but they do no work at all when viewed on my ipad or iphone. Is this an expected behavior, a bug, or could I be missing something? I am making all links properly through the hyperlink panel. Here is my published document. https://indd.adobe.com/view/95a1e8d4-c8e1-4e8c-ac42-56974a0d7872  Thank you in advance for any feedback.

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    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 19, 2015

    Are you running InDesign CC 2015.1 (August release)?

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 19, 2015

    I'll have to check in the morning. Thanks for helping Steve.

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 19, 2015

    I need to update an online publication - how can I do this?

    I understand it's in the next roll out of InDesign - but I really need to do this today.

    Can anyone help? If I send the two links can someone at Adobe help in replacing the online document?

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    Lynn.Soderberg
    Participating Frequently
    October 19, 2015

    I would delete the unwanted one, through the File Dashboard, accessed through the file menu in InDesign.

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    Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 19, 2015

    I need to keep the url the same. Thanks though.

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    gregh1988
    Known Participant
    October 6, 2015

    Hi,

    Have been using the Publish Online feature I think it is an excellent addition to the CS.

    Im not sure if I have missed this but is the published file indexed by Google. It appears from a post in the thread that it is not.

    If not, is it planned to have options in the future to allow Google to index for those of us creating sales documents / brochures / magazines etc?

    Many thanks,

    Glenn

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    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 6, 2015

    Good feature request. Post it here:

    Feature Requests/Bug Reports

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    gregh1988
    Known Participant
    October 6, 2015

    Thanks, I have done so. Steve.

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    John_Nolan
    Inspiring
    September 20, 2015

    Every time I try this I get "An error occurred while uploading...Please try again later." —even with a one page doc with the word "test" in one font. Any ideas what I can try to trouble shoot? I've tried switching network connections, can't think what else to try.

    Mac OS 10.10.5

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    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 20, 2015

    Try logging out of your Adobe ID in the Help menu, and log in again.

    Also try restoring your InDesign preferences:

    Trash, Replace, Reset, or Restore the application Preferences

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    John_Nolan
    Inspiring
    September 21, 2015

    Dough!

    Right, I just signed in and out, and that worked.

    Thanks.

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    t1ce
    t1ce
    Participant
    September 19, 2015

    I love the new function in InDesign. A few things I've noticed the past weeks working with Publish Online:

    • It can be quite annoying that double clicking makes the viewer zoom in, especially when you've made an interactive document (which is one of the main purposes for using Publish Online). People that wanted to navigate through some texts in an interactive document I've made accidentally zoomed in instead of activating new text fields.
    • External hyperlinks don't work on Safari or iOS devices, but do work on Chrome and Android devices.
    • Sometimes larger images still need to load after the viewer loaded the page, resulting in an image loading from top to bottom. Maybe it's better to preload these images.
    • I'm wondering if the documents are indexed on Google. More confidential documents should not be indexed.
    • Smaller objects that have the exact same position are still rendered on different positions. (see image below)


    -  I've made an animation where on one layer an arrow has an opacity of 30% and on the next layer the arrow has an opacity of 100% with a looped fade-in animation. This should result in an pulsing arrow (fading in, but not completely disappearing in a loop animation), but the arrows are not rendered on the same position which makes it look like two separate arrows that are not perfectly placed over each other.

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    Pradeep Verma
    Adobe Employee
    Pradeep Verma
    Adobe Employee
    September 19, 2015

    Hi Thijs,

    Thank you for trying the Publish Online (Technology Preview) feature in InDesign and liking it. Thank you also for providing feedback and letting us know of issues that you are seeing while working with this feature. We are constantly working on improving the feature and fixing issues as we discover.

    Would it be possible for you to share the InDesign document with us? Kindly package the document (by going to the File->Package... menu in InDesign) and save the package on Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive etc and send us the link so that we can investigate it further.

    You can email the file location at sharewithID@adobe.com with the email subject "For Pradeep: Publish Online Test File"

    Regards,

    -Pradeep.

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    t1ce
    t1ce
    Participant
    September 19, 2015

    Thank you Pradeep, I've just emailed you!

    PS: Strokes also appear to have different weights while in fact they are all the same:

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    Lynn Levine
    Lynn Levine
    Participant
    September 3, 2015

    I can no longer find publisher on-line button either or top bar or under file.  Where did it go to.

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    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 3, 2015

    Try restoring your InDesign preferences:

    Trash, Replace, Reset, or Restore the application Preferences

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    Graham Davis
    Participant
    September 7, 2015

    My ID CC2015 is up to date but Publish Online Preview is not available and is grayed out in Prefs. I have trashed prefs but it is still unavailable. I am in the UK.

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    sagar-khanna
    Adobe Employee
    sagar-khanna
    Adobe Employee
    August 25, 2015

    Hi Mariale,

    Does your video contain any special characters? If so, please let us know the name and try to  publish after re-naming them. Can you just place the video content in the new document and try publishing it?

    Regards,

    Sagar

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    mariale3030
    Participating Frequently
    August 25, 2015

    Hi,

    The name of the videos are: video-belleza.mp4, video-chocolate2.mp4, video-mecanica.mp4, video-mueble2.mp4... I changed the name to belleza.mp4, chocolate.mp4, mecanica.mp4 and mueble.mp4, but still stops loading at 87%.

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    sagar-khanna
    Adobe Employee
    sagar-khanna
    Adobe Employee
    August 26, 2015

    Hi Mariale,

    It seems like one of your videos is causing error while uploading. Incase you have figured out the video that is not uploading, please provide it to me. Else you can package the document and share it by uploading  to creative cloud / drop-box or any service you find convenient. We will look into the issue and get back to you.

    My Email: sakhanna@adobe.com

    Regards,

    Sagar

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    homeboy4
    Community Expert
    homeboy4Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 21, 2015

    What's the best way to do page curl transitions on this publication?

    https://indd.adobe.com/view/b09ce7ce-a11b-47e9-8ff8-08c258bbb961

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    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    BobLevineCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 21, 2015

    In short…you don’t.

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