Exporting PDFs direct from InDesign to iCloud


Here's an interesting thing I spotted using InDesign CC on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). When you save a PDF in the normal way using File->Adobe PDF Presets you can use the drop down "Where" menu beneath the 'Save As' box and select iCloud (Preview).

At first I thought "iCloud (Preview)" meant that Adobe was testing out iCloud functionality as a preview offering, but what it actually means is that you save the PDF to Preview's iCloud store.

My secondary thought was that this might be built into OS X like the ability to Save as PDF through the print dialogue box, but trying the same thing in Illustrator and OpenOffice appears to disprove this theory, and makes it appear that this is something implemented on purpose in InDesign (correct me if I'm wrong!).

It's strange because Adobe Acrobat uses Acrobat.com and there doesn't seem to be an option to save directly to this location, but you would think Adobe would prefer us to use Acrobat rather than Preview in our workflow.


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