MartinMHC Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I have Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but I apparently need Affinity Publisher to open these file types. I have been given these file types and need to simply import them to convert them to .afdesign . How can I import these files without needing to pay for Publisher as I can't afford it (£50!!) purely for converting file formats. Is there an Addon for Designer that can do this? Is there any other way that I can open these file types in Affinity Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 https://www.google.com/search?q=idml+to+pdf Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinMHC Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 @Pšenda I understand IDML are multi layered documents and PDF are flat. Therefore if that's so, PDF is not an ideal solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 4 hours ago, MartinMHC said: PDF are flat I recommend you try it, you might be surprised. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 @MartinMHC: You can get a 10-day free trial of Publisher from https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/ (scroll to the bottom of the page, and click Free Trial under the correct OS). That would let you import the IDML files you have now (not INDD), and you could save them as .afpub or .afdesign or .afphoto (and Designer/Photo can open any of those). MartinMHC 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinMHC Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 20 hours ago, walt.farrell said: @MartinMHC: You can get a 10-day free trial of Publisher from https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/ (scroll to the bottom of the page, and click Free Trial under the correct OS). That would let you import the IDML files you have now (not INDD), and you could save them as .afpub or .afdesign or .afphoto (and Designer/Photo can open any of those). Well that did the trick, thank you, although it's only a short term solution (10 days!) . Of note; once the document is opened within Affinity Publisher, each page can be opened again and edited in Affinity Designer or Photo from the Publisher main menu, so it seems straightforward for other Affinity products to be able to import IDML documents. Hopefully this import ability can be added in an update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 10 hours ago, MartinMHC said: so it seems straightforward for other Affinity products to be able to import IDML documents. Hopefully this import ability can be added in an update. Yes, it would certainly be possible and perhaps even easy, but it would be a bit pointless - IDML files are outputs from InDesign, for which APublisher is adequate. Therefore, anyone who needs to process data from InDesign will of course buy APublisher. So personally, I would not rely on the implementation of this format in all ASuite applications. And if it does, then definitely not in the free update of version 1.x, but in the expected paid upgrade to version 2. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 21 hours ago, MartinMHC said: Of note; once the document is opened within Affinity Publisher, each page can be opened again and edited in Affinity Designer or Photo from the Publisher main menu, so it seems straightforward for other Affinity products to be able to import IDML documents. Hopefully this import ability can be added in an update. If you save the opened IDML file as a Publisher file then as a matter of course you can open that Publisher file in Photo or Designer. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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