How to seamlessly import Notion text files with links and formatting to Affinity Publisher?

[Backboneslashing]

Hi everyone,

I prepared an application for a job (digital) in Notion. There is also a CV with lots of outbound links on certain words in there.

Now, midway, I decided it would be best to have full control over the design and I want to import my documents as they are into Affinity Publisher.

When I export everything from Notion as PDF, it loses the links when I copy and paste the text into Affinity. When I copy directly from Notion-Web, it doesn´t work either and puts the links aside, looks like some kind of HTML-formatting, I guess.

Do you have advice or had similar problems and found a solution regarding Affinity Publisher or Adobe Indesign?

Thanks!

[walt.farrell]

Can you export from Notion in .docx format? That would be your best approach, if you can.

[Backboneslashing]

Hi Walt,

I can´t export directly, only as PDF, HTML or CSV/Markdown is possible. I managed however to convert the exported PDF to docx. format. And now I can just copy and paste everything from the docx. file to Publisher, right? 

[walt.farrell]

39 minutes ago, Backboneslashing said:

And now I can just copy and paste everything from the docx. file to Publisher, right? 

Possibly. Or possibly you can just Open or Place the .docx file. You'll need to play with it a bit.

[Backboneslashing]

Thanks for your reply! I got it working somehow but only with this PDF to DOCX Converter: PDF to DOCX – Convert PDF to DOCX Online (pdf2docx.com)

Some links are misplaced, I guess they were wrongly interpreted during conversion. But nothing to bad. I can work with this, thanks a lot for the advice!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.