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user82573258
Inspiring
June 16, 2020
Question

Publish online: changing scroll direction

  • June 16, 2020
  • 3 replies
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When I publish online, the scroll direction appears to be sideways, meaning the user has to press left / right on order to navigate through the pages.

 

The design I'm working on has arrows to direct people to the next page, I'd need to have these horizontal to make sense with how online documents work. But then if the user downloads the file as a PDF, the arrows will be pointing in the wrong direction... seeing as Acrobat / Apple Preview scroll vertically.

 

Is there a way around this? Can I set online docs to scroll vertically instead?

    3 replies

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    Jennie32904128h8pd
    New Participant
    October 13, 2023

    Same problem here - can't publish a pdf from Indesign...that scrolls down - all users scroll down with their phones... can this be something that is addressed in newer updates please? 

      J
      JanelleElizabeth
      New Participant
      January 15, 2024

      I wish more people would help get this moved up on the priority list. Amazing to see it's been an issue going on four years. Same problem - no solutions. Publish Online feature would be great if it could accomodate the standard scrolling UX/UI as most digital formats. 

        Sheena Kaul
        Community Manager
        Sheena KaulCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        June 26, 2020

        Hi there,

         

        I am hoping that your issue has been resolved till now. If not, please feel free to update this thread else let us know if any of the suggestions shared above helped you or not.

         

        Regards,

        Sheena

          ceratellem72489053
          ceratellem72489053
          New Participant
          December 2, 2021

          Hi, I am having the same issue. When I click on Diane's link above, they only way to view the next page is by clicking the arrow to the side. If you scroll down ( just like you would on most websites/apps/social media and acrobat reader etc), nothing happens. Is it possible to make the published document scrollable?

           

          Diane Burns
          Diane Burns
          Inspiring
          December 3, 2021

          There is no way to change Publish Online's built-in navigation from hortizontal to vertical. You could add it as a feature request here: http://bit.ly/improvepublishonline. There does not seem to be a previous request, so you can start a new one. Adobe's engineering team checks these posts to get ideas about which new features are most in demand.

          In the meantime, you could build navigation on your page that mimics this, by creating up/down arrows that link to a text anchor further down/up in the text. Not exactly the same, but it might be a satisfactory work around/brute force technique. 

          Diane Burns
          Diane Burns
          Inspiring
          June 17, 2020

          I may be misunderstanding your question/issue, but... if you have arrows on the page, like this "<" and ">" they will take you to the next page in the PDF. Even though the next page is physically below, the arrows have the desired effect, especially when the PDF is downloaded and viewed via Acrobat or Preview. Set the PDF to the view "Single Page Only" and the click will have the desired effect. I've done this with this example. I have such arrows for page to page navigation, download the PDF and you'll see how it works. http://bit.ly/PubOnCollection.

            user82573258
            user82573258Author
            Inspiring
            October 14, 2023

            Thats a good solution thanks, but Adobe really needs to just set the scrolling to vertical like everything else out there (presentations, PDFs / Word docs etc)

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