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Who can view a published epub?
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Anyone.
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Is that going to change anytime? Would be such a great tool for publishing content if you could either publish to your own site, or control visibility on adobe's server. What are the plans?
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You asked about an EPUB. Is your question about that or Publish Online?
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PUBLISH ONLINE. I understand the published doc resides on the Adobe server. My question is about security of that document. Ideally I would embed the document on my website on a page only accessed by site members. But can the publication can be found on the Adobe server by anyone who might be browsing around?
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You can't just browse the Adobe server. You would have to have the long alphanumeric string which is the URL to a particular document. But nothing would prevent someone with access to that URL from giving it to someone else.
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Thank you.
If the embed code is used on my site, does that code contain the adobe server URL, and is that something that could be found by a site visitor?
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I'm not really a web person. Don't know what an embed code actually contains. Someone else hopefully will reply.
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funkychic529 wrote
… If the embed code is used on my site, does that code contain the adobe server URL, and is that something that could be found by a site visitor?
Hi,
it's up to you how you implement the link with your website.
I found one example where a simple a tag is used:
ScriptUI for dummies | Peter Kahrel
The link to the published online "ScriptUi for Dummies" brochure for ExtendScript scripters at the bottom of the page could be identified easily by a human reader if looking at the website in code view. When in Firefox simply press: cmd u
<a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/a0207571-ff5b-4bbf-a540-07079bd21d75">click here</a>
This link is meant to be found.
How to prevent readability of the URL ?
A very weak "security" approach:
Use an URL shortener like TinyURL.
Or by using dynamic content where a script is loading content at runtime.
Don't ask for specific hints, that's not my realm of expertise.
Regards,
Uwe