Jorge Zarco Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 I need to find a way to share my work with people who work in Indesign, and I have no way to do it. There is no way to save my files in the format that Indesign opens, while it is possible to open idml in Affinity Publisher. Does anyone have a solution? Thank you very much for your help. PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Save you file to PDF with the right preferences into the export window.. Callum 1 Quote Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, old Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 8 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: Save you file to PDF with the right preferences into the export window.. This is in no way a way to share files with others. PDF is not an exchange file format for page layout documents. An InDesign user receiving a PDF file has to extract the images using Illustrator, extract plain text, rebuild the pages, recreate and reapply the text and object styles, create the book and section structure again, rebuild any other element, like cross-references. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 4 minutes ago, PaoloT said: This is in no way a way to share files with others. PDF is not an exchange file format for page layout documents. An InDesign user receiving a PDF file has to extract the images using Illustrator, extract plain text, rebuild the pages, recreate and reapply the text and object styles, create the book and section structure again, rebuild any other element, like cross-references. That is, of course, true. The better approach for sharing with InDesign users is to use InDesign yourself. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge Zarco Posted May 1, 2023 Author Share Posted May 1, 2023 Thank you all very much for the information. I see that I have rushed to leave the Adobe platform. I'll try to get out of this problem and rethink going back to InDesign. Now I see that the standard is too strong to get out of it. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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