How to Download Online Published Document

[ChanceCarnahan]

The hard drive on my computer recently crashed, and I lost a lot of files. Before it crashed, I managed to publish one inDesign file online. I am able to access it in the Publish Online Dashboard, but I was wondering if there is a way to download and edit it. Thanks.

[BobLevine]

No

[Chad Chelius · Accepted solution]

Your only hope would be if you chose to allow users to download a PDF of the project when you published it. This would give you a PDF version of your project with a few more options than none, but it's still not the InDesign document and still not ideal.

[MickyMie]

I have a similar problem.
The original Indesign file is crashed and I can't open it anymore. I published it in advance with Publish-Online, but forgot to enable the pdf download option.
Is there a way to enable this afterwards or is there a different way to get the pdf file?

[BobLevine]

No. And this should prove to be a painful lesson in making backups.

[SteveABennett]

Bob, your comment is not helpful, I'm sure OP figured that on his own.

This is probably too late to help OP, but maybe someone else can benefit: one solution that Bob here would probably appreciate, as it will hurt a LOT, is to save a decent facsimile of your publications by going through page by page and "save image as". Good luck!

[BobLevine]

To be honest, I don't appreciate it at all as it's pretty much worthless. Learning to have a proper backup plan, on the other hand, is a much better way to avoid these things.