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  1. Page navigation counter resets for each chapter

    When exporting a reflowable EPUB from InDesign (19.4), the "Page Navigation" checkbox in Export Options → General generates accessible and usable doc-pagebreak markers and corresponding page link entries in a TOC.

    The minor issue I'd love to see resolved is that the ID counter of page numbers resets back to 1 with every chapter/file when exporting a .indb Book file, making all page numbers mismatched from Chapter 2 and forward.

    Technically, the page links "work" from the TOC because they link to both a unique file and a unique marker within the EPUB. But the page ID#s don't match the…

    2 votes

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  2. Publish Online

    When creating a document using Publish Online, there are several pages with graphical issues / glitches that aren't reflected in the original working file. We would like a fix for this please! I've got the published link below so you can A-B it against some of the attached screenshots from the original working file.

    Indesign v: 19.4 x64

    Here is the online published doc: https://indd.adobe.com/view/c2dd71db-83fc-48e7-a917-86440f6ed2cf

    2 votes

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  3. Password protect bug

    The new password protect feature worked fine on the 25th April.
    However I've noticed a bug on a document I was testing today 27 April.

    The same document was showing a 'access denied' page though would allow me to see page past page 1.
    Page 1 would not load.
    The same thing happened on a newly uploaded version of that document.
    The document has 16 pages with animation to the first page.
    This error happened across safari and chrome browsers.
    The document works fine when re-uploaded without password protection.

    2 votes

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  4. Disable the download video link in Publish Online

    When viewing video on Publish Online, there's an option to download the video. It would be nice to be able to turn that off when uploading in the same way that the sharing can be turned off.

    Thanks in advance.

    2 votes

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  5. EPUB Export with JPG images causes a validation error for the cover image due to an **already identified** InDesign bug

    When you Export an EPUB with JPG images, it always causes a file type validation error for the cover image.

    I have already identified the bug in InDesign. Instead of turning the cover art into an actual .jpg format, InDesign instead just rasterizes the first page of the book as a .png and changes the extension name of a .png file to .jpg without actually being the correct file format.

    Please fix this.

    2 votes

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  6. Solution to Indesign Publish Share the facebook thumbnail missing: Error in url

    Indesign Publish Share the facebook thumbnail is missing: Error in url

    when inspecting the code source I notice that facebook was trying to get the share.png thumbnail from a url with /publications/ in the url whilst the correct path would be /publication/ with out the "s" ... is this maybe why no thumbnail is showing ?

    2 votes

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  7. Publish Online documents have become very slow to load

    Since the dashboard update, analytics 'since published' will NOT load.

    We're also noticing publish online documents are very slow to load initially.

    I'm presuming this is all server side issues at Adobe and would like to know if its being fixed.

    Are you forcing browsers to cache online publications before loading?

    These are both major issues that might force us to see alternative solutions if not fixed soon.

    2 votes

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  8. translation German

    See here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/wrong-translation-in-german-version-of-indesign/td-p/12853784

    Object→Object Export Options: EPUB tab:
    epub:type should be translated to epub:Typ and not "Schrift" which is basically the font type.

    17.2

    2 votes

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  9. Publish Online is a total disappointment

    Publish Online is an unreliable source for analytics, one its touted features, and it needs to be resolved immediately.

    Here's an idea: make it function in ANY web browser or get rid of it entirely. I don't care if it has a 90-minute lag time, please just start somewhere and fix this issue. I am so unbelievably frustrated that I was able to provide analytics after one hour of publishing my document and now, three days later, nothing appears. It's embarrassing and humiliating when part of my job relies on this to function as expected and it NEVER does when…

    2 votes

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  10. publish online mobile

    InDesign 16.4

    When i publish a document using 'publish online' it doesn't work correctly on mobile. When you first load it up on mobile the navigation bar at the bottom is there, but if you click anything on the page the navigation bar disappears. This then means you can't navigate through the rest of the brochure.

    I've tried this on multiple mobile browsers including Chrome, Edge & Brave and the same happens on each.

    This is a major issue for us as a lot of people will want to view this document on mobile.

    I've attached a couple of screenshots

    2 votes

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  11. export epub file

    InDesign crash when exporting to ePUB 2.0 with shared hyperlinks in endnotes

    2 votes

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  12. Error #18 Publish Online

    Hi,
    I work on InDesign 16.1 on macOS Big Sur 11.2.1.
    Since April 2nd, error #18 PublishOnline has been occurring when I try to publish online any of my documents. I tried on several computers and it still failed at 98%. I also tried with a blank file and the problem was there too. My files work well when opened with another account.
    Please find attached a screenshot of the error as well as a test file. I tried every solution on the help center and it didn't work. Could the issue come from my account? What solutions can you…

    2 votes

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  13. Problem with the display of the navigation bar on an Android smartphone and tablet of a document published by publish online

    Hi all,

    I have a strange situation with a document that I created in InDesign and then published online using "Publish Online". From there I got a link to share.

    On the desk, everything is fine. But the problem is with Android devices where the options tab with next page, previous page, download button and others disappears after a few seconds and there is no way to get it back.

    It is not possible to navigate between the pages of the document.

    This is the bar with the options I am talking about in the attachment.

    Is there something that…

    2 votes

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  14. Publish Online menu inactive after one use

    Indesign 16.0.2
    When you go to the menu File/publish online it's works the first time you use it. But, 5 minute later when you want to update your publish online document the menu File/Publish Online option is inactive (grey).
    I must quit Indesign, relaunch it and after that, the menu File/publish online is active.

    2 votes

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  15. Exporting Fixed Layout ePub files from InDesign has errors

    A document exported from InDesign with a fixed layout selected has errors included in the file. Actually, the fixed layout epub is not able to be opened even in Adobe Editions PC version. Can this error be addressed and fixed?

    2 votes

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  16. I do not have access to publish online

    Hi, I've beed publish my file online. But now i cannot access the publish online feature, It says check your network connectivity and in the dashboard also say I cannot access. Please help me to fix this file https://indd.adobe.com/view/cb0a5621-a3f0-40cc-91e7-579a11301261

    Im running v 14-0-3

    2 votes

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  17. 503f

    Hey
    Trying to advertise online using InDesign CC 2021 v16.0,
    And receives an error message (Figure 4)
    1. Click on:
    digital publishing> publish online> And receives an error message <error # 503f: an unknown error occurred. retry after some time.

    Unable to publish a document in ePub / HTML / Publish to the Web.

    I will ask for help or a solution

    Thanks

    2 votes

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  18. Publish online no longer allows hyphens and dashes in title

    Is this a new restriction or a bug. It started after the update to 2021 version.

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  19. Actual size (with web artboards) does not shows the actual pixels sizes

    Issue to visualise correctly the zoom in indesign

    with 2 identical artboards for web (300x300px) one in indesign and one in photoshop, click on 'view' 'actual size'.. the difference is huge

    Seems photoshop scaling looks ok

    and indesign is way bigger than the real size in Pixels

    2 votes

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  20. graphic frame corners not rounding in publish online document

    operating system: Catalina (latest update 10.15.5)
    Have generated online published file in both 2019 and 2020 Indesign

    
To obtain evenly rounded corners on tables in my document I copied the table into a graphic frame and then rounded the corners of the frame. This renders fine when I create a pdf but for some reason when I generate an online publication from indesign one side of the graphic frame edges aren't rounded anymore. The rounding issue only happens with these graphic frames, objects with rounded edges render just fine.

    See images for examples of what it should look like and…

    2 votes

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