Publish online

Open an InDesign document and select File > Publish Online.

Select the General tab to add the following information:

• Title: Enter the name of the online document. This is also the browser title of the published output.
  
• Description: Enter the description of the online document. You'll view the description in the Publish Online dashboard and on any social media forums.
• Pages: Select to export All or a Range of pages from the current document.
  
• Export As: Select Single or Spread to specify the display settings.
• Enable Password Protection: By default, password protection is disabled. Toggle it on to set a password for your Publish Online document. Only viewers with the password can access the document.

If you are republishing an existing document, select Update Existing Document and select the appropriate document title from the Choose an existing document to update drop-down list. Change the publish online settings as required. You can even apply password protection to your existing online documents. You can not retrieve passwords for already published documents with password protection enabled. If you have forgotten your document's password, select Reset Password to create a new one.

Select the Advanced tab to add the following information:

• Cover thumbnail: Select the cover for your published document. When you upload it, this thumbnail is displayed in the Publish Online dialog with the title and description.
  • First Page: Select this if you want to use the first page of the InDesign document as the cover thumbnail.
  • Select Page: Select this if you want to use a specific page of the InDesign document to be used as the cover thumbnail.
  • Upload image: Select an external image as the cover thumbnail.
• Image Settings: Specify how the images of the documents are to be exported.
  • Format: InDesign decides how the document images should be exported by keeping the best balance between quality and file size. The available options are JPEG, GIF, and PNG.
    
  • Resolution: Select the resolution of the image.
  • JPEG Image Quality: Select the image quality of the published document. This field is enabled only when the image Format is set to Automatic or JPEG.
  • GIF Options Palette: Select a color palette for optimal rendering. This field is enabled only when the image Format is set to Automatic or GIF. 
• Download PDF Settings: Select the appropriate PDF Preset to download the document as a PDF.
• More Settings:
  • Allow viewers to download the document as a PDF (Print): Select this option to allow users to download your document in PDF print format.
    
  • Hide the Share and Embed options in the published document: Select this option to hide the Share and Embed options on your published document.
    
  • Allow viewers to Search and Copy text in the published document: Viewers can search and copy text from the published document. This option is enabled by default with InDesign 18.4 and later. You can search for text within your published documents on any device. However, you can only copy text from published documents on desktops and laptops.
    

Select the Analytics tab to link your Google Analytics to your published document. You can also check the Enable cookie banner on my document to add a cookie notice.

Select Export HTML5 Package if you want to export your InDesign document as an HTML5 package. Learn more about the HTML5 package.

Select Publish to publish your document online.

You can select Cancel Upload to stop the upload process or Close to minimize the dialog and continue working on other InDesign documents.

After the document is published, you can View Document, Copy the link, Share it on social networks, or visit the Publish Online Dashboard.

Go to File > Recently Published to view the recently published documents list.

Select a document to open in your default browser.