Password protect InDesign documents before publishing

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hello Everyone,

We're happy to announce that the Publish Online feature of InDesign helps you repurpose your print documents by creating their digital version. You can publish and share any InDesign document, from a simple PDF to an interactive document with buttons, slideshows, animation, audio, and video.

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Publish an InDesign document online

1. Open an InDesign document and select File > Publish Online.
   
2. Select the General tab to add the following information:
   
   Enable Password Protection: Password protection is disabled by default. Toggle it on to set a password for your Publish Online document. Only viewers with a password can access the document.
   
   

   Note:

   • If you are republishing an existing document, select Update Existing Document and select the appropriate document title from the Choose an existing document to update the drop-down list. Change the publish online settings as required.
   • You can even apply password protection to your existing online documents. You cannot retrieve passwords for already published documents with password protection enabled.
   •  If you have forgotten your document's password, select Reset Password to create a new one.
   
   
3. Select Publish.
   
   You can select Cancel Upload to stop the upload process or Close to minimize the dialog and continue working on other InDesign documents.
4. After the document is published, you can view it, copy the link, share it on social networks, or visit the Publish Online Dashboard.
   
   Please refer to the Publish Online article for more details.
   
   

Thanks,

Harshika

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[rudy_9369]

Sorry, this is confusing the hell out of me.  I have a finished (pending review process) InDesign document, which I want to apply password protection to.  NOT to "publish" and make available on web sites, etc...  this is just a simple "add password," in the manner you'd do with a Microsoft Word document.  Totally confused by the wording about "web publishing" and other terms applied to this.  I just want to e-mail the InDesign document to others in my company, and allow it to be secure before and after any of my colleagues (who will know the password) have opened it.  What am I missing???

[Mike Witherell]

Rudy,

The above post is about exporting to "Publish Online" which is kinda like an epub, sorta. You can password protect it.

There is no provision to password protect an InDesign document.

[rudy_9369]

Not what I was hoping to hear (rather surprised you can’t, actually!), but many thanks for clarifying! Appreciate the help!

[Mike Witherell]

Of course, if you zip the InDesign publication file or files, you can password protect a zip file.