PauAlvarado Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 Hi, I'm trying to open this file and every single time I try Publisher crashes. I have opened other .idml files.. what's wrong? (because I had issues with Affinity photo crashing, I have disabled 'metal procesing' and changed the display to opengl basic, but did not affect the crash). Help! I bought the program specifically to be able to open IDML files... Thanks flora_5.idml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 That file opens in APub 1.92, Windows version. So someone with a current version, preferably the Mac version, needs to try to see if there is something amiss with either the Mac application, the current version, or your system. Mike Patrick Connor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 This .idml causes immediate crashes in both Apub 1.10.4 and Beta v1214 to me. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauAlvarado Posted December 25, 2021 Author Share Posted December 25, 2021 14 hours ago, MikeW said: That file opens in APub 1.92, Windows version. So someone with a current version, preferably the Mac version, needs to try to see if there is something amiss with either the Mac application, the current version, or your system. Mike Would you be so kind to save the file as an Affinity Publisher file and upload it here? To see if I can work on it while we figure this out… I would really appreciate it! best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 2 hours ago, PauAlvarado said: Would you be so kind to save the file as an Affinity Publisher file and upload it here? To see if I can work on it while we figure this out… I would really appreciate it! best Sure thing. I'll get to it fairly soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Actually, right now my wife disappeared before we were sitting down to open presents... flora_5.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauAlvarado Posted December 25, 2021 Author Share Posted December 25, 2021 5 hours ago, MikeW said: Actually, right now my wife disappeared before we were sitting down to open presents... flora_5.afpub 196.01 kB · 5 downloads Haha Thanks so much! And Merry Christmas I am now able to open the file but there seems to be a problem with the links as the resource manager shows there are missing files, but doesn't let me relocate them since they are named "?" and not the photo names. Do you by any chance know why this might be? Anyway, thanks so much for your time, especially at this time of the year! I'll just wait for the Affinity team to come back... All the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauAlvarado Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 22 hours ago, thomaso said: This .idml causes immediate crashes in both Apub 1.10.4 and Beta v1214 to me. Thanks for the input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 3 hours ago, PauAlvarado said: I am now able to open the file but there seems to be a problem with the links as the resource manager shows there are missing files, but doesn't let me relocate them since they are named "?" and not the photo names. Do you by any chance know why this might be? That's odd indeed. Appears as a buggy idml interpreation. As a workaround you could find them via the ID resource paths, APub at least seems to be aware of the resource file names, although it doesn't tell them in the Resource Manager. If you don't have access to ID you alternatively could search for resource paths in the .idml file opened with a text editor, for instance BBEdit.app: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauAlvarado Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 9 hours ago, thomaso said: That's odd indeed. Appears as a buggy idml interpreation. As a workaround you could find them via the ID resource paths, APub at least seems to be aware of the resource file names, although it doesn't tell them in the Resource Manager. If you don't have access to ID you alternatively could search for resource paths in the .idml file opened with a text editor, for instance BBEdit.app: Thank you very much for the info! I Tried to tweak things a bit but it's too complicated and I'm afraid to break things up too much, I have to export this back to In design afterwards... I will try to open it in a previous version of indesign and export it again to see if it works with afpub.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Unless the images/resources are copied back to your hard drive into the folder with the idml, saving from any version of ID to idml will likely fail in the same manner. ID CS6 sees the dropbox path, as does Viva Designer and QXP. You might be able to specifically connect to that dropbox path via your browser and have APub then see the images. Doubt it, but one never knows. What do you mean: 3 hours ago, PauAlvarado said: ... I have to export this back to In design afterwards... There is no facility for APub to export to idml (or any other exchange format). So if you are needing to exchange or deliver and idml when done, you need to either use ID or Viva Designer (though I would recommend using ID). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauAlvarado Posted January 5, 2022 Author Share Posted January 5, 2022 Hi Mike! Thanks for the explanation.. On 12/26/2021 at 11:34 AM, MikeW said: There is no facility for APub to export to idml (or any other exchange format). So if you are needing to exchange or deliver and idml when done, you need to either use ID or Viva Designer (though I would recommend using ID). This is very unfortunate! I had no idea, I just assumed that because it could read the files, it could also export them back to the same format... I live in Argentina with exorbitant exchange rates for USD so an Adobe subscription to ID is absolutely out of question, and because I'm using Catalina, the CS6 version doesn't work with my computer anymore... I do have it in another computer that's very slow but I will have to resort to that for the time being... Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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