Publish Online FAQ

You can share Publish Online documents in multiple ways: share the URL with anyone via a hyperlink in email, post it to Facebook or Twitter, or embed the document in a website or blog using the embed code.

Yes. Follow these steps to edit and re-publish published documents:

The Publish Online Dashboard lets you view, manage, and delete all published documents. Select File > Publish Online Dashboard to view the InDesign online dashboard. Select Documents > More options   icon > Delete to delete the document.

Anyone with the link to a published document can view the document.

Publish Online documents are hosted on Adobe servers. Each published document is assigned its own unique URL.

You can embed hosted content, or links to hosted content, on your site, but currently, Publish Online does not support hosting content on your server.

Currently, there is no limit to the number of published documents Adobe will host for you as long as you're using the system fairly, so keep creating and publishing.

The only point when Adobe may stop hosting your documents is if we realize you're spamming the system with too many Publish Online documents.  

Usually, the files hosted for Publish Online are not very large unless you embed large videos in the published document. We don't limit the document size you can publish using Publish Online, so keep them coming. But if you want an optimum reading experience of the Publish Online Documents, we recommend encoding your videos to mp4 files and keeping them fairly small in size.

For paid Creative Cloud memberships, including All App and InDesign Single App plans, Adobe will host Publish Online documents until you delete them.  

Your documents will continue to be hosted on Adobe servers for at least 90 days after your membership expires. Adobe may choose to stop hosting after the 90-day period.

Yes, you can use all the features of Publish Online with a free Creative Cloud membership and an InDesign free trial. After your free trial ends, Adobe may stop hosting your documents after 90 days unless you convert your trial to a paid membership.

Click the Report Abuse in the Reading Layout menu of the Publish Online document, which opens a dialog that allows anyone viewing the document to report offending content, such as defamation, pornography, copyright infringement, and more.

Go to the Feature Request and Bug Report Submission Form, choose InDesign from the Select Product dropdown menu, and complete the form to submit your feature request or bug report.  

Yes, Publish Online is available as part of the Creative Cloud for Enterprise plan, but Publish Online documents can only be published to Adobe servers.
Publish Online is not available for Creative Cloud for Enterprise with Managed Services. See the Creative Cloud for Enterprise with Managed Services FAQ for more information.

Yes, access to Publish Online can be managed using your Admin Console in the same way as other Creative Cloud applications and services are.