- Drafting Your Content
- Upload from Dropbox
- To Upload from Google drive
- Publish Your Content
- Unpublishing changes in Publication
Once you sign up for the Issuu account, you are just a few steps away from publishing your content to a large audience.
Drafting Your Content
Use our Drafting feature to preview and prepare your document for uploading.
1. Login to your Issuu account, and click on the Upload button (this will take you to the Publication Workspace).
You can also drag your files directly with the drag-and-drop feature, or add them from Upload a file, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
2. If using the Upload button, choose from Upload a file/Dropbox/Google Drive to upload your file.
3. Once you have selected a file, it will go through different steps of the conversion process. When your file is fully converted you can see how your content will appear in the Issuu reader.
4. Your content is now saved as a draft and will be available for editing. All drafts can be found in your DRAFTS
Upload from Dropbox
- Select Dropbox to upload a file;
- Login to Dropbox (If you are already logged into Dropbox, it will directly take you to your account);
- Select the file to upload.
To Upload from Google Drive
- Select Google Drive to upload a file;
- Login to your email account from which you want to upload the file (If you are already logged into your email account, it will directly take you to your drive);
- Select the file to upload.
Publish Your Content
The document can be published once you have confirmed that you own the rights to the publication and other rights, to distribute this content publicly.
While you are waiting for your content to convert it's time to fill out the information for the content:
- TITLE - a title is required for the work to be published
- DESCRIPTION - a description is optional, however adding a detailed title and description will help readers to see and better understand your content.
- AVAILABILITY - here you need to choose if you want to make your content Public, so it's available everywhere on the web, or Unlisted, which means that only readers with the link can see the content
- BACKDATE - setting a backdate will affect the order of your content on your Publication List and on your profile page
- SCHEDULE your content to be published later if you're a higher-tier plan subscriber. If you schedule your content, until it gets published it will be accessible under SCHEDULED.
- COLLECT EMAIL - as part of the higher-tier plan you can now collect email addresses from your readers. (lead generation)
- DETECTED LINKS - as part of the higher-tier plan you can enable detected links. Learn more about what type of links can be detected here.
- DOWNLOADS - with a higher-tier plan you can make your content downloadable on Issuu.com and in your embeds.
- ADVERTISEMENTS - all banner ads will not be shown beside your content on Issuu.com or in our apps if you're subscribed to a higher-tier plan.
Once you have finalized your selections, click Publish to publish and you will see your beautiful Issuu publication! All your published content is available in the PUBLISHED section under Publications.
After publishing your content, you can easily share it. For more details on how to share, please check this article: Share Your Content.
Unpublishing changes in Publication
If you want to unpublish some changes in your publications,
- Click on the View tab
- Click on Undo all unpublished changes
- Click Confirm
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Please take a look at how to manage your publication settings video.
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