Kelly Bellis Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Just wondering before building styles from scratch. On a related note, would anybody consider sharing their AfPub text styles and their advice for us migrating InDesign users? Thanks very much and Happy New Year! jmwellborn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM f/g Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Save the .indd inDesign file as .idml. You can open .idml files in Publisher and you'll see they have all the styles from the inDesign file. jmwellborn and Kelly Bellis 1 1 Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 / MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Bellis Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 Thank you for the reply RM. I've been playing around with this a little and it seems that InDesign styles can be saved as default and then used in a new AfPub2 document, saved, and then may be imported. Cool. Much obliged and much to explore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 I would build from scratch. Most likely there are abilities in InDesign's text styles that have no analogue in Publisher and if those abilities are employed in InDesign they may cause problems in Publisher. Plus by building from scratch you'll learn what Publisher offers and perhaps find things in Publisher that have no analogue in InDesign. Kelly Bellis 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | 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...
MikeW Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 40 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I would build from scratch. Most likely there are abilities in InDesign's text styles that have no analogue in Publisher and if those abilities are employed in InDesign they may cause problems in Publisher. Plus by building from scratch you'll learn what Publisher offers and perhaps find things in Publisher that have no analogue in InDesign. .idml export supports all features of the ID version used to create it. .idml import, in every recieving application I've used, skips features it doesn't support. The problems associated with Serif's implementation of .idml import are typically not text styles. Kelly Bellis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly Bellis Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 Thanks to Mike & Bruce for your remarks. I appreciate your insights. Although my importing text style tests seemed to work nicely using the .idml method, the fonts used in the previous manuals written in InDesign thankfully are supported in AfPub. I could imagine that fonts which are unsupported in AfPup, but that still work without issue in other applications' styles, might need tending after importing from the .idml. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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