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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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    jjnxpct
    Participating Frequently
    August 14, 2015

    Hi! Great feature! Just wanted to let you know we see some problems with tranparent color layer that use 'mulltiply' effect over an image. The underlying image does not show. Or the transpancy is not 'multiply', Hope this will be addressed is an next version.

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    Pradeep Verma
    Adobe Employee
    Pradeep Verma
    Adobe Employee
    August 18, 2015

    Thanks Jip! Issues like these are on our radar and we will keep addressing them as we move along.

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    sylvie_u
    sylvie_u
    Participant
    August 13, 2015

    Hi,

    I can't find the information: is there a limit of Mo/Go, pages or number of documents to be shared?


    Thanks,

    Sylvie

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    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 13, 2015

    What is Mo/Go? That's an acronym I've never heard of. I haven't heard of a page or document limit.

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    sylvie_u
    sylvie_u
    Participant
    August 13, 2015

    Hi Steve,

    Sorry I was using French acronyms.

    I was talking about MB and GB! Just wondering if there was a limit when sharing the doc.

    Sylvie

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    Pradeep Verma
    Adobe Employee
    Pradeep Verma
    Adobe Employee
    August 12, 2015

    Hello everyone, with the recent update of InDesign CC 2015 (11.1) that went live on August 11th 2015, Publish Online (Technology Preview) feature is now available across all locales of InDesign.

    Various enhancements and bug fixes have also been made for this feature. For more details about this feature, please visit the following link; InDesign Help | Publish Online (Preview)

    Regards,

    -Pradeep.

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      Anonymous
      August 7, 2015

      I've just run into a new issue with missing images in the Published Online version.

      I'm helping a friend with a book on birds and have a trial run with 11 pages. But 3 jpgs in the InDesign doc are not showing up in the Published ONline version.

      The images show up as thumbnails in the thumbnails strip, but not on the pages.

      I've checked the images files in Photoshop and they are no different from the other images.

      I also deleted the two pages and placed the images on new pages, but that did not solve the problem.

      Is there a maximum size for a file uploaded to Publish Online?

      Any suggestions would be most welcome.

      Jim

      Running on Windows 10 and CC2015 versions.

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      jeffkaron
      jeffkaron
      Participant
      August 7, 2015

      I had the same issue and chatted online with a representative for a long time. But ultimately no resolution. Rebuilt from scratch, which worked for some reason.

      Jeff

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      Anonymous
      August 7, 2015

      Many thanks, Jeff. Good to hear that it's not just one instance of the issue.

      I have never had success recently with adobes tech support. The people I've always been connected to just repeat material in the help manual. This forum is much more helpful.

      I am experimenting with putting different images in place of the ones that do not show but have not found a consistent pattern of no-shows yet.

      Yes, I realise that it's a tech preview. Just REALLY happy this feature is begin added to InDesign. I just subscribed to IND CC 2015 because of it.

      Jim

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      homeboy4
      Community Expert
      homeboy4Community Expert
      Community Expert
      August 5, 2015

      When you make a change to a document and republish, the system creates a new URL. It would be nice to have the option to create a new URL or use the same one. But in the meantime, is there some technology or a website that allows one to redirect a changing link to a fixed one?

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        Bob Hunter
        Participant
        August 12, 2015

        Yes, I've got the same same problem. My dashboard fills up with different versions and URLs, surely a waste of storage space for Adobe. This also means a new URL has to be distributed to access the latest version and hyperlinks in web pages have to be changed.

        Anybody have a solution and is this something Adobe is likely to fix?

        Thanks

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        Steve Werner
        Community Expert
        Steve WernerCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        August 12, 2015

        Adobe has been aggressively improving the feature since released in June. I think there's a pretty good chance of it (although I have no inside information).

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        homeboy4
        Community Expert
        homeboy4Community Expert
        Community Expert
        July 29, 2015

        Is it possible to get to the web dashboard (listing published files) directly or must one always go through InDesign?

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        AnshulJain19
        Adobe Employee
        AnshulJain19
        Adobe Employee
        July 30, 2015

        Hi Alan

        You can log in to dashboard without going through InDesign. Simply type https://indd.adobe.com/dashboard, and you will be presented with dashboard, you need to sign in using your Adobe id to view the published list.

        Thanks

        -Anshul

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        homeboy4
        Community Expert
        homeboy4Community Expert
        Community Expert
        July 28, 2015

        Anshul,

        Although I haven't tried your solution yet, I do hope that in subsequent releases Adobe addresses this issue in a way that doesn't require browser fixes. While I lose mouseover states using Diane's solution, it portends widespread reliability no matter who accesses the link or what their system parameters are.

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        jeffkaron
        jeffkaron
        Participant
        July 27, 2015

        I've encountered a few issues, which I have resolved, but one has not been: I can hyperlink a box, but hyperlinked text is not clickable when the document is published online.  I cannot figure out why this is so.

        Any thoughts?

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        Diane Burns
        Diane Burns
        Inspiring
        July 27, 2015

        At this time, hyperlinked text doesn't work. You have to put a hyperlink on the object, as you have discovered.

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        emilyc3678348
        Participant
        July 27, 2015

        Just tried out this feature. I was really hoping (wishful thinking) that I could use the "Publish Online" tool to create a webpage with which I could copy the source code into an HTML email builder. Of course this was far-fetched, but it would be so cool if possible!

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          homeboy4
          Community Expert
          homeboy4Community Expert
          Community Expert
          July 24, 2015

          The original registration thingie was a button with the usual three states. I replaced it with a plain ole text box and -- following Diane's instructions -- hyperlinked the entire textbox. It now works on my desktop PC using Explorer, on my iPhone and on my MacBook using Safari. This is fine for now. Thanks, Diane! But it would be good if the button worked so that people could get that mouseover feedback.

          https://indd.adobe.com/view/8cb9eae2-9e9d-42ae-a3bd-2567e8e9136b?ref=ide

           

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