Hstrutz Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 (edited) 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 by Hstrutz bad spellings PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 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. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hstrutz Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hstrutz Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 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/ Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted January 8 Staff Share Posted January 8 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! PaoloT 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hstrutz Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted January 9 Staff Share Posted January 9 I'm not personally currently aware of any plans to implement an IDML export option in Affinity, our apologies - though we never say never Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hstrutz Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 Okay. Then let's wait for never Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 51 minutes ago, PaoloT said: Let me try to make an hypothesis: AfPub will simply not save the features it doesn't have! I think we have exchanged some thoughts earlier about degree of usefulness of IDML serving as a kind of an exchange format between different layout apps (considering how it is currently implemented e.g. in QXP and VivaDesigner), but I certainly agree with you that these kinds of "incompatibility" concerns are silly. IMO, speculations of "proprietary" or "nondisclosure" issues related to IDML are equally nonsensical. I am not sure how Adobe handles downgrading of features so that "new", post CS4-features get at some level included, but I have understood that IDML specs basically do not get upgraded because the idea is that layouts saved in IDML format, including ones saved in latest CC versions, can be opened also in CS4. If something is not "understood" by earlier versions, it is just skipped/ignored, . As for reasons of current non-availability of (over a decade old) IDML specs on Adobe dev network (while IDML tools and cookbook are still available), we can only make guesses, but anyone googling IDML File Format specs gets the needed documentation as second and third find entry on Github and CreativePro (not particularly dark internet)... IDML file format itself is nothing more than zipped XML = plain text, so anybody can see how ID features are expressed in mark up. If Serif can convert that to native Affinity objects there is nothing in the technology that stops them doing it in the other direction. MikeW, PaoloT and woefi 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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