Print and read-out-loud with InDesign Publish Online?

[ASteinmeier]

1) Is it possible to print a document from InDesign Publish Online?
Like you print e.g. a PDF, spread or single page?
Adobe has an example that I can't print: https://indd.adobe.com/embed/11958f5e-0b44-4073-a089-7d28d6ae49e6?startpage=1
Not that I should, but to see if it was possible at all to print a document 😉

2) Is it possible to have "read-out-loud" function from InDesign Publish Online document?
Maybe it's called OCR - Optical Character Recognition?

[Ashutosh_Mishra · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. You can download the published document as PDF if it is allowed by the publisher and go for a print. Once you go into full screen view of this sample document shared by you, you can see the option to download the PDF. I am sharing a screenshot for your reference:

Hope it helps.

I am afraid I have not heard of any read-out-loud functionality personally with which you can hear the text on the published document on the browser. I am sure other community experts here might be able to help.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi ASteinmeier,

yes, you could print individual pages from a Publish Online document. It's a function of the browser.

From my German Firefox on Windows 10:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Concerning the "read-out-loud" functionality:

Currently I see no chance to do this, because all the text of a Publish Online document is either text converted to SVG shapes or is rendered as image pixels. You'd need an app that could make a screen rendition in pixels and do OCR on it. Together with a bit of artificial intelligence that could decide in what order the reading has to be done and that makes decisions what actually a text paragraph is and what language the text is in.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Laubender]

Also be aware that some of your paragraphs on page 2 are already rendered in pixels where the others are clear SVG shapes. This difference in quality is visible; even more if a human reader with impaired vision has to zoom in:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[ASteinmeier]

I can't take credit for this, as it is an Adobe example from there website 😉

But thank you so much, for clarifying and a good explanation of why it can't be "read-out-loud".

[Laubender]

"it is an Adobe example from there website"

Oh well…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )