Affinity Publisher to Adobe InDesign

[Hstrutz]

Adobe InDesign has the option save as IDML, a format which can be opened in earlier versions of Adobe InDesign and also in Affinity Publisher to be fully edited there as nothing happened – which is nice! What's the option the other way around – to save as this format also from Affinity Publisher so it's possible to open that file for edits right on also in Adobe InDesign?

Edited January 8, 2024 by Hstrutz
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[firstdefence]

I would have thought the only practical file type is PDF, there will likely be some trial and error to get a reasonably editable document unless someone has already thried this process.

[Hstrutz]

5 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

I would have thought the only practical file type is PDF, there will likely be some trial and error to get a reasonably editable document unless someone has already thried this process.

 

[Hstrutz]

Thanks, but what I mean is a right-on editable document, a non destructible format just like what Adobe makes with the IDML for Affinity. As Affinity has made the option to import this it seems like it might be easy to make also the same for Adobe, to more easy be able to cooperate between companies/projects/platsforms. Anyone?

[firstdefence]

The problem is the propriety code that adobe creates, Affinity does not have access to this and on top of that the app features that indesign has that publisher does not. Because of this Affinity cannot create a fully compatible document export such as the idml format yet. By all means make a request in the request section of the forum if it has not already been requested. 

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature-requests-feedback/

[Dan C]

33 minutes ago, Hstrutz said:

what I mean is a right-on editable document, a non destructible format just like what Adobe makes with the IDML for Affinity

Unfortunately we don't offer an export option to such a file format at this time, which is why we recommend PDF for transferring Affinity files to other apps.

This has been discussed in multiple threads throughout the forums previously, I'd recommend checking out one of the threads below -

You can find even more similar threads through a related Google search - 

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforum.affinity.serif.com+Publisher+to+InDesign

I hope this clears things up!

[Hstrutz]

Thanks, good to hear this question has been asked more than 1 time, but I guess most of us asking this wonder when a workable solution for this will be available?

[Dan C]

I'm not personally currently aware of any plans to implement an IDML export option in Affinity, our apologies - though we never say never

[Hstrutz]

Okay. Then let's wait for never

[PaoloT]

On 1/8/2024 at 6:34 PM, firstdefence said:

the app features that indesign has that publisher does not

Let me try to make an hypothesis: AfPub will simply not save the features it doesn't have!

Paolo

 

[lacerto]

Obsolete.