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Try the new Publish Online (Preview) feature in InDesign CC 2015 !

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June 19, 2015
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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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homeboy4

Community Expert

I posted a question regarding Publish Online in a new post yesterday, but apparently I was supposed to post my question/comment here. Please excuse the duplication.

When I create an InDesign CC 2015 document with a URL button on my PC desktop, use the new publish online feature, then view the document online, the URL within the document works. But if I send an email containing the Adobe Publish Online link to my Yahoo address, open the email on my iPhone, I can still view the document online, but the URL within the document doesn't work. When I open the same Yahoo email on my MacBook, if I mouse over the URL within the document, the cursor changes to a hand, but nothing happens when I click on it.

Here it is:

https://indd.adobe.com/view/c74ca8bf-2df6-49e8-91d5-bdef85f5d611?ref=ide

Diane Burns

Inspiring

The link on your page isn't working for me at all. I do get the hand icon, though.

Be sure the hyperlink is on the entire object. Hyperlinks on text don't work in Publish Online.

Select the entire frame that link appears in, and put the hyperlink on that. Let us know if you still have problems.

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barringtondesign

Participating Frequently

Just a few notes for the development team as we've played a little bit more with the feature.

• It seems as of now there is hit and miss support for transparency when being converted to Publish. Graphics appear as they would going through a print rip without a flattening transparency (missing elements and lots of knock-out white boxes) but other times they appear correct. Can't fins a difference in elements that would cause one to flatten and another to not flatten.

• We've had some random placed PDFs and TIFs disappear in the web view. (no pattern that we can find for this occurring).

• We have some placed Ads that are flattened PDFs that show flattening lines (just like an Acrobat Reader View. Lines don't print but are visible on screen)

• Auto-numbering from master page items shifts in placement about 1/8" (3-4mm) down. However, text from a master page element remains unaffected.

• We had some headline text jump from 44pt to 88pt. Text was white overlaying an image with opacity set to 62%

• Some placed TIFs appear to be cropped by a bounding box–As if the images was slightly enlarged during conversion but held to the placed bounding box so the top and bottom of the placed logo appear cropped.

• We've had a few completely blank pages (again focused around placed PDFs)

• Some Placed PDFs have the images dropped but the text remains.

FYI's:

• For all the missing elements there were no broken links. Files were either CMYK TIFs or placed PDFs (x1a formatted for press).

• Test Indd document was a 108 page magazine about 82 MB

Hope that helps, and thanks again!

AnshulJain19

Adobe Employee

Hi Greg,

Thanks a lot for this detailed information. Few of the issues which you are seeing that images are missing in published output could be because of some special characters in those file names.

This is a known issue with publish online and we are working on it. For now you as a workaround you can remove those special characters from file names to solve this issue.

Few white/gray lines appearing around images is also a known issue and we are working on it.

Regards

-Anshul

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the_cunctator

Participant

Okay, great in theory!

I pressed the Publish Online button in InDesign.

I got this message: 'Your document was successfully uploaded' https://indd.adobe.com/view/275cac54-af22-4f0f-b9fa-7518588e71a6

I copied the link and pasted it into FireFox.

The result is a 404 error.

I've tried several times with different docs and different browsers.

Please advise.

Diane Burns

Inspiring

This link works fine for me, and I see your Roe Cottages project. I have viewed it in both Safari and Firefox. Could you try again? Perhaps a character was missed when you copied the link?

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the_cunctator

Participant

Yeah, it's working for me now too. Odd as I used the 'visit' button, which got a 404, and manually copied the entire URL, which also came back as a 404.

Still, as I say, it's resolved itself!

Thanks for looking at it for me

mrserge

Known Participant

One more thing. If I don't save document before I try Publish Online feature, after publishing online, document saving feature is disabled with warning «document is used by other program» so there is only one possible solution to save work: use Save As.

AnshulJain19

Adobe Employee

Hi Sergejs,

Is it happening everytime that after publishing, your document cannot be saved. Are you performing some other step as well. Or is it just create a new document and publish it, after that save will be disabled.

Is it disabled for that document only or for other open documents as well.

Any more information would be helpful in reproducing the issue.

Thanks

-Anshul

mrserge

Known Participant

I found a workaroud. I think the problem is that in some cases (tried for couple times and different documents) InDesign just don't close the connection with the server and keep document on some kind of upload/hold stage. So, basically, the workaround to save the document that was exported and is not possible to save is to go offline and after couple seconds it become possible to save/close the document without warning about being used somewhere else.

mrserge

Known Participant

There is essentialy a bug in this feature. If you have a document with different page layouts, Publish Online will export every page based on your general document settings (File -> Document Setup).

sagar-khanna

Adobe Employee

Hi Sergejs,

Currently we support page layout settings from Document setup dialog but we are working to improve it. So, stay tuned

Regards,

Sagar

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Anonymous

Not everyone speaks English as a native language. Adobe is however quite clear that this is a preview technology.

Your workaround seems reasonable and I would certainly give it a go.

Yes, I do understand, Bob, but many thanks for the reminder,

Thanks, also, Monica, for the explanation why the sound occurs, it led directly to the solution. Inserting a full second of silence at the beginning of the clip.solved the problem of the early sound burst.

My apologies for such a strong reply. It was coloured by the fact that this Publish Online feature, even at the Tech Preview stage, is a perfect solution for this project, a multi-lingual project planned for a new UNESCO supported website in the fall. It greatly simplifies the project and now we have a work around, it can be sent for final review, much earlier than anticipated.

I do realise that I am taking a risk using a Tech Preview for a production project and that the URL for the document on the Adobe website might not be there indefinitely. But the advantages of Publish Online are so great, it seems a worthwhile risk.

I have been using a trial version of InDesign CC 2015, which expires tomorrow, but this one feature has persuaded me to take out a single product subscription for IND CC 2015. I only wish that there was a way to combine it somehow with my Photograhers subsciption.

Thanks again, Monica for your help.

Jim

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haneadino

Inspiring

I have tried to publish 3 times. It is fantastic!

But I want to delete 2 of my publishing, how do I do that??

Thank you so much!!

Diane Burns

Inspiring

Go to File menu > Web Dashboard. You should then see a list of all your published documents, and you can delete them by mousing over, then you will see a "Delete" button to the right.

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haneadino

Inspiring

Thank you SOOO much @dianeburns1

I love this new feature!!

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Bullis

Participant

Im having problems with the animations when I upload on Chrome. No animations will work on chrome, when uploaded.

Diane Burns

Inspiring

I've had no problem with animations in an InDesign file that is uploaded via Publish Online, and viewed in Chrome browser (Mac). Here are a couple of ID docs with animations. If these view ok on your Chrome browser, there may be some other problem.

https://www.behance.net/dianeburns

Do your animations preview correctly in the InDesign EPUB Interactivity Preview panel?

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barringtondesign

Participating Frequently

Just filled out the survey -this is a fantastic feature.

I did notice when publishing that some transparency effects were stripped out in the online edition. Are there plans to include some basic analytics (open, read time, users, etc...)

Thanks!

Saurabh_Mahajan

Participant

@barringtondesign : We will be adding analytics soon, it is currently work in progress. We are also working on adding support for transparency.

@TaW : It is coming very soon in all languages

Thanks,

Saurabh Mahajan

Product Manager, InDesign

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jesseroe

Participant

I'm unable to Publish Online any indd file with an individual video larger than 3.5 MB. Would you have any advice?

AnshulJain19

Adobe Employee

Hello Jesse,

Are you able to publish other documents without video. What error you get when you publish document with video. How much time does it take before it gives error.

Thanks

-Anshul

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jesseroe

Participant

Anshul,

Thank you for taking the interest in this question.

I am able to publish other documents without video.

The error notice appears almost instantly saying "Document upload failed

An error occurred while uploading your document. Please try again."

-Jesse

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

Pretty cool.

But something strange happens to the right hand egde of images.

See https://indd.adobe.com/view/69fbee65-435d-4dbd-8ee6-f1b1d61a7cd1

It happens with jpg as well as png.

Edit: It only happens in Chrome and Opera - Firefox and IE are ok.

AnshulJain19

Adobe Employee

Hi Per,

Can you please provide more detail about what strange is happening with right hand images. On what page you are seeing issue, on which OS and browser version you are experiencing the issue.

Thanks

-Anshul

Per Berntsen

Community Expert

Hi Anshul,

I've published a new document that shows the problem more clearly at https://indd.adobe.com/view/60963cd1-ac4a-4fed-b9a6-fd2a731dd500

This was made with Image Settings set to Auto.

The problem varies with the width of the browsers window, and is not visible at most widths.

I'm on Windows 7, and the problem only shows in Opera and Chrome - Firefox and IE are OK.

I include a screenshot from Opera. Look for blue or black lines below and on the right edge of the images.

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