How to Download Your Own PDFs from the InDesign Publish Online Dashboard

Hi!

Thanks for trying to help out, but the most important for me was to download the PDFs that I own from the Dashboard. Too many times when I use Publish online for my magazines, I get an error at the 99% mark and the PDF fails to be published. There´s many posts about this problem.

So, I´m still not closer to a solution for these files that I already uploaded earlier, where I had to disable the download option before uploading/publishing online, so I can´t download these, my own files from the Dashboard. Which I just thinks is really bad by design.

For my really old magazines (PDFs with bleed and print marks), I´ve now resorted to crop them in Acrobat, which I eventually found to be really effective since it can crop multiple pages PDFs in one go (I made a youtube video showing this if someones interested).

I´m also fed up that Adobe can´t fix the problem that many have with this download option checked when they Publish online, so I´ve now purchased a flipbook subscription where I will upload all my old and new magazines, that will have a nice virtual bookcase with them all displayed next to eachother.

I will not wait more years for what seems easy for devs to fix.

Btw, I´m using Indesign 19.5.0.84 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.6.1.

I´ve tried turning on and off settings for presets for downloading/print. It fails on my magazines for a very long time, which forced me to publish without the download option for my readers, and appearantly not being able to download them from the Dashboard myself.

The worst is I can´t republish my old InDesign files because things happens over the years; fonts might be missing or made obsolete, graphics might be missing, some things just ain´t compatible any longer. I´ve loved using InDesign for many years, after starting out with Quark in the 90´s, but now I wonder if it´s all a bit overkill (although sometimes lacking) for the publishing I do.