With Publish Online, you can now repurpose your print documents by publishing them online. You can publish a digital version of an InDesign document that works on any device, in any modern web browser, without the need to install a plug-in.
For a richer document viewing experience, you can publish an interactive InDesign document that includes buttons, slideshows, animation, audio, and video using the interactive authoring features of InDesign CC.
After you publish your documents, you can provide the online document URL to anyone to view the document in a beautiful, yet simple, online reading experience, on any device and on any platform. You can even share the online document on social networks like Facebook and Twitter or over email with a single click. The document can also be embedded on any website or blog using the embed code provided on clicking the embed option on the viewing layout.
Multiple page spread
You can create an InDesign document that contains spreads with more than two pages, the published document displays multiple pages on a spread in the same way as they are displayed in InDesign.
Publish documents with multiple page sizes
Publish documents that contain pages with different sizes. The published document maintains the size of individual pages and displays the content on the pages appropriately.
Text hyperlinks
Hyperlinks created on text are supported in published document. InDesign maintains all types of hyperlinks in the published document:
- URLs
- Emails
- Page destinations
- TOC markers
- Index markers
- Cross references
Image resolution
The image resolution of the published output supports 96 PPI and is the default value for better quality images in the output.
Mobile & Tablet experience You get a rich mobile viewing experience of your published InDesign documents.
- Smoother page transitions with swipe gesture improvements.
- Share dialog displays on the full screen
- Mobile optimized layout of thumbnails for better viewing and accessibility.
The tablet view includes an easy-to-use scrollable thumbnail view.
Sharing options
You can choose to share your published documents on Twitter and over email. You can also provide your viewers with the option to download your document as PDF.
Transparency effect
The published online documents support transparency and other effects with blending modes. The only exceptions are text frames, groups, buttons, objects with animation, and MSOs overlapping with objects containing transparency.
Update published documents
You can update a published document by updating the source and republishing it.
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Title
Title of the online document.
This name is displayed as the browser title of the published output.
The title is also displayed in the Recently Published menu (File > Recently Published) and the Publish Online dashboard.
Description
Description of the online document.
This is displayed in the Publish Online dashboard and on Facebook if you share the document there.
Allow viewers to download the document as a PDF (Print)
Select this option if you want your users to be able to download your document in the PDF-Print format.
A (Toggle Thumbnails)
Show/Hide the thumbnail dock that displays the thumbnails for all the pages in the published output.
E (Share)
Open the Share Publication dialog. This dialog provides sharing options to copy the current document URL (and share it via email) or share the document on Facebook.
F (Embed )
Copy the code needed to embed the output on your site. You can also specify a start page for your document and the embedded output opens on the selected page number. Select Disable full screen for embed window if you do not want users to view the document in full screen.
Note:
(E and F) Share and Embed options are not available if you have selected Hide the Share and Embed options in the published document option while publishing the document.
I (Report Abuse)
Open the Report Abuse dialog. This dialog provides the options for type of abuse and your details.
The Recently published menu displays the list of the last five documents published.
Click a document in this list, to open the published output in your default browser.
InDesign provides a Publish Online dashboard from where you can access all your published documents. To view the InDesign Publish Online dashboard, choose File > Publish Online dashboard. There are two tabs in the dashboard.
Share
Open the Share Publication dialog. This dialog provides sharing options to copy the current document URL (and share it via email) or share the document on Facebook.
Embed
Copy the code needed to embed the output on your site. You can also specify a start page for your document and the embedded output opens on the selected page number. Select Disable full screen for embed window option under the Embed options if you do not want the users to view the document in full screen.
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