NkSt Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 Hey Affinity, Today I recieved an design from a graphic designer. He send me a pdf, indd and idml file. The pdf file opens ok in Affinity Publisher though the program has to guess where and how to group text in textboxes, and other formatting are lost. This should be solved opening the idml file, but this results in a complete mess, where graphic elements are out of place and the master page is also wrong. I am using Affinity Publisher 1.9.1.979 on windows. I have tried opening the idml via drag n drop, the open function and doubble clicking the idml file. I have contacted the designer, who have tried to open it in Indesign. Here it opens correct. I hope you can help. Regards Nick Quote
Staff Pauls Posted March 23, 2021 Staff Posted March 23, 2021 Do you have the required fonts also ? If you could upload the IDML file here we can investigate Quote
NkSt Posted March 23, 2021 Author Posted March 23, 2021 Yes I have the fonts installed. I will send you the idml file. Thank you for a quick response 😊 Quote
Staff Pauls Posted March 23, 2021 Staff Posted March 23, 2021 I can see a few problems - some may be down to that we cant support every Indesign feature but I think the 2 most problematic ones are that maybe the image file names themselves are causing a problem as they dont seem to get detected correctly. I'll log this has an issue as replacing them doesnt quite get the placement right either. The text is off in my document and I think most of this is down to not having an appropriate hyphenation dictionary at my end - I assume you do and have it configured in Publisher ? Quote
NkSt Posted March 23, 2021 Author Posted March 23, 2021 What about the lines that are out of place? It would be on page 2. See pictures in the first post. Quote
Staff Pauls Posted March 24, 2021 Staff Posted March 24, 2021 I think the indesign layout is causing problems with our conversion. Quote
NkSt Posted March 24, 2021 Author Posted March 24, 2021 ok, so I can not use an idml to open and share work from Indesign at all? or will you say that it is the specific layout in this idml that causes the problems? In case of the last being your answer, do you think there would be something in the layout that should be changed so Affinity can convert it correctly? Quote
Staff Pauls Posted June 14, 2021 Staff Posted June 14, 2021 We're still working to see why Publisher and Indesign are using different metrics to determin the line widths of the text. This difference is causing the text to be truncated but we're not sure exactly what it is but certain fonts seem to suffer from it Quote
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