Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Endnotes in ePub use identical id's where an id should be Unique
When InDesign 18.0 and earlier versions make a reflowable ePub, the endnotes cause the file to be rejected when checked by https://www.ebookit.com/tools/bp/Bo/eBookIt/epub-validator. The reason: each endnote reference is embedded in a span with an id twice, and the name or identifier of that id is the same. In HTML (which is the construct of an ePub) each id should be unique. You cannot have a HTML file with two elements with the same id-name. The next line can be found at the endnote reference, but a similar thing coccurs on the backlink, back from the endnote text to the reference.
<span id="endnote-002-backlink"><a href="Naamloos-1.xhtml#endnote-002"><span id="endnote-002-backlink">2</span></a></span>
So in order to end up with an ePub that gets approved, I need to remove or rename one of the spans. This is something that needs to be fixed. I can't imagine why this error hasn't been mentioned earlier. The links back and forth do work, but this HTML/ePub is really not what it is supposed to be. For each endnote I have to make two corrections.
When InDesign 18.0 and earlier versions make a reflowable ePub, the endnotes cause the file to be rejected when checked by https://www.ebookit.com/tools/bp/Bo/eBookIt/epub-validator. The reason: each endnote reference is embedded in a span with an id twice, and the name or identifier of that id is the same. In HTML (which is the construct of an ePub) each id should be unique. You cannot have a HTML file with two elements with the same id-name. The next line can be found at the endnote reference, but a similar thing coccurs on the backlink, back from the endnote text to the…
5 votesFix for this issue is now available in the latest release of InDesign 2023 - that is, InDesign 18.1 version.
Please update to this version of InDesign to get the fix.
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Adobe InDesign team
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EPUB – Endnote backlink issues for INDB files
When exporting EPUB 3.0 (and 2.01) from an InDesign(2022, version 17.4) book file, endnotes only link in the first chapter where they are found. Subsequent chapters reveal <a> tags with empty href attributes.
Backlinks are required by virtually all ebook publishers. For academic books, endnotes are essential and the request for EPUB formats is only increasing.So far Adobe Car's response: "Currently, we do not have a workaround for this issue other than creating a single document instead of book or manually modifying backlink in the exported EPUB file." This isn't acceptable or even always possible.
5 votesFix for this issue is now available in the latest release of InDesign 2023 - that is, InDesign 18.1 version.
Please update to this version of InDesign to get the fix.
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Adobe InDesign team
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animated gif
The animated gif in attachment does not animate in InDesign or when part of a published ebook. I used the Mac iBook to view it.
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Publish Online Effects Not Displaying
I've published my document online, and when I do the image overlay isn't showing. It just shows my color block, but not the image below.
It displays properly in the thumbnail preview though. See attachment for behavior issues.
How do I resolve this?
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Publish online - embedded videos no longer playing in Chrome
Have created an InDes file with embedded videos that I published online. Up until recently, all the videos have been playing in Chrome fine, however now they don't play. It loads the video, but when I click the play arrow, nothing happens. I can scrub through the video with the video controller, but not play it. The videos play fine on Safari.
If I set the videos to autoplay, they do, however there is no way to pause or stop them, so it doesn't work when there are multiple videos on one page.
This is a recent thing, last year we published a similar file with no video problems.
Link to a test page from the file:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/2fe91109-72f2-4463-86e7-37c9d7017422- videos are MP4
- All videos are 940x540 so not huge files
- not working on Chrome but is working on Safari
- Can scrub through the videos on Chrome, but they just won't play.
Additionally, when I try to play the videos in the InDesign sample publish online doc, they don't play either:
https://indd.adobe.com/view/e7718b9a-4518-4bda-9efe-9df4d60cb3b3Have created an InDes file with embedded videos that I published online. Up until recently, all the videos have been playing in Chrome fine, however now they don't play. It loads the video, but when I click the play arrow, nothing happens. I can scrub through the video with the video controller, but not play it. The videos play fine on Safari.
If I set the videos to autoplay, they do, however there is no way to pause or stop them, so it doesn't work when there are multiple videos on one page.
This is a recent thing, last year…
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Publish Online download PDF kills buttons/interactivity
Steps to reproduce: post a Publish Online document, then click to download a PDF.
Expected result: all buttons and interactivity would remain.
Actual result: all buttons disappear and all interactivity is lost. Occurs in both Chrome and Safari, on desktop and handhelds.
Using ID 13.1 on Mac High Sierra.5 votes -
Images pixelated when published online, if the frame is scaled
Images inside scaled frames can be pixelated when published. It looks like the frame scaling is applied to the resolution i.e. a 10% scaled frame will have 10% of the desired resolution. Reproducible if 'Adjust scaling percentage' preference is set. Setting a higher export resolution in the 'Publish Online' dialogue doesn't fix it.
InDesign CC 2018, probably older versions with Publish online.
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thumbnail publish online
Publish online thumbnails extend off the right hand side of the browser window and cover the button for forward navigation through the thumbails. This means that the only way to navigate to the desired page is by clicking through page by page, or by resizing the browser window and clicking quickly before the thumbnails have time to respond and cover the button.
I don't know if this is a bug since it's my first time using publish online but if it isn't, there certainly needs to be a better way to navigate through a long document, like a book. For instance scrolling quickly, page number field to jump to, or just thumbnails that don't cover their own navigation buttons.
This issue exists in both Chrome and Safari and is not unique to my published document. I've tried with other publicly available documents and the viewer has the same issue.
DEVICE: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)
BROWSER: Chrome, SafariPublish online thumbnails extend off the right hand side of the browser window and cover the button for forward navigation through the thumbails. This means that the only way to navigate to the desired page is by clicking through page by page, or by resizing the browser window and clicking quickly before the thumbnails have time to respond and cover the button.
I don't know if this is a bug since it's my first time using publish online but if it isn't, there certainly needs to be a better way to navigate through a long document, like a book. For…
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Some hyperlinks/cross-references lost in HTML export
When exporting a document containing hyperlinks and/or cross-references to HTML, some hyperlinks are lost.
See the screenshot of an example InDesign document attached. (This is an anonymised excerpt from a much larger document.) The index item at the bottom contains cross-references to numbered/lettered paragraphs in the text above.
In the actual HTML output files from both InDesign 2020 and 2021, some of those cross-references have not been correctly converted into hyperlinks. (Compare the links in the expected HTML output file.)
Ugly workaround: insert extra characters immediately before and after each distinct hyperlink/cross-reference. In the actual 'bookended links' HTML file you can see that I have inserted a $-sign before/after each hyperlink, and the links have been exported correctly. The $-sign can then be removed by search/replace in a text editor to produce the correct HTML (this is how the expected HTML file was created).
When it happens in a document, it happens consistently: the same hyperlinks are lost each time – but within the document there seems to be no pattern to the links that stick and the links that disappear once exported.
This example has been tested in InDesign 16.4 x64 and 15.1.4 x64 on Windows 10 and 16.3.2 on macOS Big Sur and the results are the same in each.
When exporting a document containing hyperlinks and/or cross-references to HTML, some hyperlinks are lost.
See the screenshot of an example InDesign document attached. (This is an anonymised excerpt from a much larger document.) The index item at the bottom contains cross-references to numbered/lettered paragraphs in the text above.
In the actual HTML output files from both InDesign 2020 and 2021, some of those cross-references have not been correctly converted into hyperlinks. (Compare the links in the expected HTML output file.)
Ugly workaround: insert extra characters immediately before and after each distinct hyperlink/cross-reference. In the actual 'bookended links' HTML file you…
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publish
Latest version of ID...
A MP3 file placed into ID with On page load selected in the media panel and placed anywhere in the layers panel, or even alone on a page with no other objects, audio does not play On Page Load when exported to Publish Online, plays fine if you create a button and have that button play the file though.
4 votesThank You for reporting the issue.
We are currently reviewing it.-Adobe InDesign
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Embedded Publish Online doc fails in Firefox
Embedded Publish Online pages do not behave properly (i.e., go to full screen mode) in the latest release of Firefox 62.0.3 on Mac.
Please go to these two websites and click on the embedded document. It will attempt to go to full screen, but the cover only is jammed in the upper left corner of the screen. You can't navigate or do anything to fix that I've found. This is a serious problem, as many people have embedded Publish Online pages in their websites.
http://www.andreanienhaus.de/
http://www.atlasdergisi.com/dijital/yaban-karacadag.htmlCould someone else check this with Firefox and let me know the result?
And also please advise with any workaround.
Thank you.
Embedded Publish Online pages do not behave properly (i.e., go to full screen mode) in the latest release of Firefox 62.0.3 on Mac.
Please go to these two websites and click on the embedded document. It will attempt to go to full screen, but the cover only is jammed in the upper left corner of the screen. You can't navigate or do anything to fix that I've found. This is a serious problem, as many people have embedded Publish Online pages in their websites.
http://www.andreanienhaus.de/
http://www.atlasdergisi.com/dijital/yaban-karacadag.htmlCould someone else check this with Firefox and let me know the result?
And…
4 votesIssue is now fixed.
Thank you for your patience all this while.-Abhinav Kaushik
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Publish Online Dashboard empty
My Publish Online Dashboard doesn't show any of my publications (the section "Document Trends" remains totally empy after I publish or update a document. Though I manage to push the documents online and the share-link URLs do work.
Thx in advance for your concern
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interactive button
I can't get the interactive button working on Epub preview, Epub export, or publish online. Either to activate an animation or the different appearances.
I've try reinstalling indesign CC 2018, and it till won't work.
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ePub 2.0.1 export creates invalid ePub files
InDesign creates incorrect ePub in latest version (19.5) when exporting reflowable ePub 2.0.1.
This is the result of any ePub generated with InDesign from the Draft2Digital Epub validator:
- ERROR(RSC-005): /OEBPS/content.opf(2,105): Error while parsing file: attribute "xml:lang" not allowed here; expected attribute "id"
The "xml-lang=" attribute should not be removed from the "package" tag, as it is not in the ePub 2.0.1 standard.
- ERROR(RSC-005): /OEBPS/cover.xhtml(8,38): Error while parsing file: element "figure" not allowed anywhere; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
In previous versions of InDesign this was a "<div>". "<figure" is not part of the ePub 2.0.1. standard. This should be reverted to a "<div>"
- ERROR(RSC-005): /OEBPS/cover.xhtml(9,110): Error while parsing file: attribute "role" not allowed here; expected attribute "class", "dir", "height", "id", "ismap", "lang", "longdesc", "title", "usemap", "width" or "xml:lang"
In previous versions of InDesign the "role=" tag was not present. It is also not part of the ePub 2.0.1. standard, so it should be removed.
These bugs prevent upload of ePubs to all major platforms (CB in The Netherlands, Draft2Digital, IngramSpark, etc).
InDesign creates incorrect ePub in latest version (19.5) when exporting reflowable ePub 2.0.1.
This is the result of any ePub generated with InDesign from the Draft2Digital Epub validator:
- ERROR(RSC-005): /OEBPS/content.opf(2,105): Error while parsing file: attribute "xml:lang" not allowed here; expected attribute "id"
The "xml-lang=" attribute should not be removed from the "package" tag, as it is not in the ePub 2.0.1 standard.
- ERROR(RSC-005): /OEBPS/cover.xhtml(8,38): Error while parsing file: element "figure" not allowed anywhere; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"…
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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
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Hide spread does not work with publish online
InDesign v 19.0 - Publish Online
I welcomed the fairly new 'Hide Spread' option, which is long overdue. But unless this is a bug, I am astonished that the hide spread feature does not work when you use the Adobe Publish Online option!?
I think the initial message said the hidden pages will be excluded when exporting (to PDF I presume), but I assumed it would also work when using the Publish Online option!
But my experience publishing online just now shows me the hidden pages are always included. I changed paste board set-up to 'Digital Publishing' in case that was needed (made no difference), and checked the preferences in case there was a specific option to take up (there wasn't).
Frustratingly a search of Adobe help and Google did not reveal whether this feature should work in Publish Online, or whether it did not.It doesn't sound like a stretch to have that hide spread feature working on Publish Online, and it just seems like an error or massive oversight for it not to be included or referenced.
InDesign v 19.0 - Publish Online
I welcomed the fairly new 'Hide Spread' option, which is long overdue. But unless this is a bug, I am astonished that the hide spread feature does not work when you use the Adobe Publish Online option!?
I think the initial message said the hidden pages will be excluded when exporting (to PDF I presume), but I assumed it would also work when using the Publish Online option!
But my experience publishing online just now shows me the hidden pages are always included. I changed paste board set-up to 'Digital Publishing' in case that…3 votes -
Online Publishing not taking all images
Using both InDesign 19 and 18.5, publishing online no longer functions on a Mac running Sonoma 14.1. This issue started days ago. I’ve Packaged projects, saved them locally, and confirmed all images are linked but when I publish them, some images do not tranfer. And it’s random. If I publish over and over again, an image that didnt appear before may make it through. This is a terrible bug for me personally as I rely on digital publishing and sharing interactive presentations for my business.
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Publish Online Broken Objects
Publish Online Suddenly not displaying images correctly since 6th November 2023
Hi there,
Yesterday I tried to update an InDesign document which I'd published online.
I had to add some stuff to the document which I then published online with the changes (new publish, not over written) and it seemed to break some of the embedded images. I thought it must be the changes however I did test the back up I had which was an identical document and when publishing it online again some of the images or all of them are broken. Without making any changes in InDesign, Each time I publish online a different thing is broken or restored. (sometimes its 1 image thats broken, sometimes its all of them).I decided to move the files to another computer which has a different version of indesign and it produced the same problem. This was on Catalina on InDesign 18.1.2 and also on ventura on InDesign 19 has the same problem.
Here is a link to the back up online publish which still appears correctly
https://indd.adobe.com/view/e36b8a6b-8023-4385-989a-b9185c92755dHere is a link to the same identical document which was published online after the 7th
https://indd.adobe.com/view/f4ff1059-f912-4f40-9618-1ba7e6889c9d
Note with this one I overwrote the file a few times to check if it was working again, without changing the document. Each time different images were broken.
Here's the updated page I made which is also broken
https://indd.adobe.com/view/f4ff1059-f912-4f40-9618-1ba7e6889c9d
Also note here one of the big broken link boxes is actually a text box, not an image. So its not a linked object exlusive problem I don't think.Here is a link to the back up document files
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dKfKhsXUitbOgH-_vOC15Xg_AngRb5ko?usp=drive_linkAnd the updated one
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_MgnOREPnKcTJVuMQQVn5lIcvwrYjHYB?usp=drive_linkI originally posted the problem here
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-publish-online-suddenly-not-displaying-images/m-p/14218277#M549562and a few people have cropped up recently (since the 7th of November) with a similar issue.
Many thanks,Leah
Publish Online Suddenly not displaying images correctly since 6th November 2023
Hi there,
Yesterday I tried to update an InDesign document which I'd published online.
I had to add some stuff to the document which I then published online with the changes (new publish, not over written) and it seemed to break some of the embedded images. I thought it must be the changes however I did test the back up I had which was an identical document and when publishing it online again some of the images or all of them are broken. Without making any changes in InDesign,…3 votes -
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Publish online - URL/Hyperlinks sometimes don't work
Hyperlinks sometimes don't work on publish online.
I have a document with around 14 pages, with several hyper links. Some of these work and are clickable others don't.
I have tried them as empty frames with hyperlinks, objects/images with hyperlinks and convert into button with hyperlink - none of these work on certain pages.
3 votes
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