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Understand the Publish Online platform

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Understand the Publish Online platform

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- [Narrator] Now that you've seen how to use Publish Online, there are a few things about this unique publishing platform that are important to understand. The technology behind Publish Online can be divided into two parts. One part is InDesign, which you need to create and publish your document. And which of course requires an active Creative Cloud subscription. The other part of Publish Online lives on Adobe's web servers. Adobe web servers provide all of the features of the user experience when your document is viewed. Such as the navigation, going into full screen mode and so forth. Adobe Cloud Servers also provide the Publish Online dashboard which is used for managing documents and providing you with analytics. When you publish your document from InDesign, it's uploaded to Adobe servers as CSS and HTML. It's similar to but not identical to a fixed-layout EPUB. The structure of this code, if you've ever cracked open a fixed-layout EPUB from InDesign, is, well it's pretty dense…

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