Publisher > Importing IDML file from InDesign issues

[LAMF64]

Hi,

As I am new to the Affinity suite and have been working strictly in Adobe design programmes for 20 years. Now I have the Affinity Publisher and I am slowly getting the grip of it. But I have one problem as I have exported all my InDesign projects to IDML in order for Publisher to take over in the future. I have managed with most of my files that has a regular text flow with images and other elemnts in it, but I have some files that are product catalogues that are made based on tables and on each table row there are two main cells with the left containing the product image and the right the product information. In the imported file I only see page 1 and then no more is visible in the file, all aother pages are blank. I add a screenshot to display the pages as they appear, with some kind of flow arrows between each page. I suppose that is the key in order to get the flow woring between all pages and display all the tables on each page.

If someone could give me a hint it would be awesome. I am so close to abandon InDesign now...love Designer.

[MikeTO]

Hi, I haven't tried this myself but I do know that Publisher doesn't allow tables to be split over multiple pages like InDesign does. It's a feature that is frequently requested in this forum. Without this feature, it looks like the table on the first page in your screenshot is entirely on that page, overflowing it, leaving nothing on the following pages. You would have to duplicate that table onto each of the other pages and then delete the rows that shouldn't be on that page.

Cheers

[LAMF64]

7 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Hi, I haven't tried this myself but I do know that Publisher doesn't allow tables to be split over multiple pages like InDesign does. It's a feature that is frequently requested in this forum. Without this feature, it looks like the table on the first page in your screenshot is entirely on that page, overflowing it, leaving nothing on the following pages. You would have to duplicate that table onto each of the other pages and then delete the rows that shouldn't be on that page.

Cheers

Hi, yes I have tried and worked this out now. It is a bit of an issue and if solved of course great news, but if you copy and cut from the table on the first page and paste it into new tables on new pages it is definitely not that of a big issue. I have learned a lot during the last 3 weeks and consider Publisher just as good as InDesign in  most aspects and even better if you consider the possibility to directly open pdfs and edit them. Publisher rocks!