
Even hyperlinks in the document don’t work, although presumably they will eventually.Īnd outbound hyperlinks would be the only obvious way to make money with these online publications, since Adobe doesn’t display ads in the interface (although it doesn’t discourage the inclusion of your own ad pages). Your online publication’s text isn’t exposed to search engines, and nor can users find content within it. At the moment, there’s just a button to post the link on Facebook, which is hardly a traffic strategy.

It’s unclear whether Adobe also intends to provide the discovery, search and sharing functions that other online-publishing platforms compete on.

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Publishing page-turn PDF-style documents to the web is hardly new – services such as Ceros, Issuu and Publitas have been doing it for years – but being able to do it so easily, neatly and, apparently, free of charge is significant. Everything looks exactly as intended, give or take a few rendering glitches.īasically, Publish Online just works. The value of the whole exercise will depend heavily on how native Adobe manages to make it feel.Īnd what you see – in the browser rather than a dedicated app – is a PDF-like render of your exact layouts, not an HTML/CSS or EPUB FXL approximation. The interface hasn’t been fully optimised, though iOS Safari’s chrome appeared over the navigation bar, for example. I saw no lag in page turns on the desktop, and just a little on mobile. Flicking through a publication using the cursor keys is impressively quick.
