David Wright

InDy and QX  are dinosaurs of  the publishing industry and are so up themselves I do not expect them to be able to deal with PP files but I do not expect a company that I and many others  have given income to over the years  to say  scrap all you have done as  we have a new bone you Pavlovian dogs will slaver over.   We might be a small minority who have had the business acumen  to not give a bloatware seller  more money than the average PC but I would have thought it would be enough to keep a separate windows version of Affinity Publisher (rebranded from PagePlus of course) up to date.  In the end it is Serif's call meanwhile i shall be keeping my money in my pocket as long as possible and  i think i will not be  the only one.

I'm a software developer of many years and one of my areas was transformation of data from one business format to another.
It has nothing to do with code sharing, it's about logical representation.
You don't share code with adobe, but you allow the import of PSD format in designer and it to your own logical structure to the best you can.
It's nonsense when you say that.
 

I'm also amazed and disappointed that I can't open/import .ppp PagePlus files. Unlikely to adopt Affinity Publisher until the facility is provided. Page Plus still works OK

In the past 15 years my organisation has built up a huge archive of Pageplus templates, both centrally and across 100's of branches and 300+ individual users. We would be very reluctant to either abandon these or devote the resources to reproduce them in Publisher, as we were forced to when we made the painful transition from Adobe Pagemaker to PagePlus.
Most likely we will struggle along with PagePlus for the next few years, before eventually examining all the available alternatives. It's a shame, because we've been generally impressed with what we've seen in the beta. If Publisher was able to import PagePlus files we would probably be looking to buy several hundred copies over the next year.
(And before anyone says it, yes I know Publisher does an OK job of importing pdfs - as does PagePlus - but that's not a convenient way to work when your cribbing bits of artwork off several previous jobs, especially for our less experienced infrequent users.)
As others have said, you're chasing a large group of Indesign users who could be persuaded to switch, but seem to be telling loyal Pageplus users that we're not worth the effort of supporting. 

Hi,
Got a library of hundred of these (version X6) that regularly get updated. Will they be supported? Haven't spotted any reference to this in anything I've read. Hope I've just missed it.
Thanks
Richard

Please, please, pretty please! The structure, from what I've seen, is very like Pageplus and I've got years of stuff in that. Recreating a lot of text and document formats all over again would be a major pain. In practice, I wouldn't purchase until I had to unless this was on offer.