Affinity designer files with Adobe InDesign

[Bold Venture]

Since "Designer" is the approximate of "Illustrator," I figured I could use these files in Adobe InDesign. Although I have no problems with Affinity Photo files, if I take the extra step of exporting them as jpg or tiff, Affinity Designer doesn't seem to import into InDesign as well.

Any suggestons? (Aside from get rid of Adobe) Hopefully I'll be completing the switch to Affinity soon, but I'm using InDesign temporarily.

[Old Bruce]

Not sure what you are wanting to get into InDesign but you could also try exporting files, try PDF as well as JPEG or TIFF.

[walt.farrell]

If you Export from Designer in the same formats as you Export from Photo, they should import into InDesign the same way.

[Wosven]

If you want to keep the vector part, use PDF files.

But always keep the option "Preview export on complete", to open the PDF and check it. Some parts can be rasterised when you don't want it to be, and checking this, and other problems in Adobe reader is really important depending of what you need or want to do with the files. Especially with complexe designs.

[Wosven]

Oh, and I forget, also check you exported the right artboard, with the right settings, since some aren't memorized and you need to check/select them each time...

[Bold Venture]

Thanks for all the suggestions. We'll see what happens when I send files to be printed. In the meantime, exporting the illustrator/designer files as an SVG seems to retain the vector aspect. I drop files into InDesign, and I'm getting a clear background where everything should be clear.

[Fixx]

I have just copy-pasted to InDesign. Should work fine and have vectors, but result in embedded and non-editable. Exporting and placing PDFs may be safer workflow.

[lacerto]

1 hour ago, Fixx said:

I have just copy-pasted to InDesign.

For me (on Windows and Adobe InDesign CS6) anything other than text will be pasted as embedded graphic (EPS or PDF), and selected text (rather than text objects/frames) is pasted according to InDesign preference setting of handling text from Clipboard as plain text or formatted text. The other way around (from InDesign to Publisher) many objects (e.g. vector shapes) come as editable objects. The only way I have managed to get editable vector data from Affinity apps to InDesign is routing it via Illustrator and this needs to be done in pretty small chunks to not cause data to become embedded vectors. 

[Wosven]

For small objects/logo with few colors, I export each color as a JPG with embedded path, import them on to of each one, convert the paths to frames and delete the image inside and assign a fill.

I only do this with small icons or simple important logo I'll need on many files/issues. For the other ones, I simply export to PDF.

I mostly work in CMYK, and not sure how embedded SVG would end up, and can't allow logo with wrong/RVB colors.