RM f/g Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Or have a look at this: Viva Designer Even the free version opens indd (and idml) files and exports idml. Raff 1 Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 3 hours ago, RM f/g said: Or have a look at this: Viva Designer Even the free version opens indd (and idml) files and exports idml. Does the free version export back out in .idml? I believe the demo version can export .idml files until it reverts to personal mode. I keep the commercial version up to date and haven't ever tried the free or demo versions. The .idml support both directions is/has been the best thus far for the wide variety of ID files I've done. I don't use VivaDesigner more than several jobs a year, but I just finished in it today. It's got great language support. The job I just finished had Hebrew & Arabic passages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RM f/g Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 5 hours ago, MikeW said: Does the free version export back out in .idml? In the free version you can ‘save as > idml’ and ‘export > document > idml’. I've only been playing around with the – somewhat crippled – free version of Vivadesigner. Never used it for a project, so never got the commercial version. MikeW 1 Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Dshark Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 hour ago, RM f/g said: In the free version you can ‘save as > idml’ and ‘export > document > idml’. I've only been playing around with the – somewhat crippled – free version of Vivadesigner. Never used it for a project, so never got the commercial version. Thanks for sharing this. It was interesting to do a quick conversion comparison with Viva free and IDMarkz on a 20pp CC2019 InDesign brochure I was given. Neither was perfect, but both gave a good starting point to tidy things up from, always helpful to have a PDF as reference. Although after a successful first run, Viva then crashed each time I tried to re-open the original INDD file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raff Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 23 hours ago, RM f/g said: Or have a look at this: Viva Designer Even the free version opens indd (and idml) files and exports idml. Thanks so much! I downloaded the trial version and managed to recover the documents !!!😘 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomek Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I've just tried Viva nad I am not impressed. It was not able to correctly import my InDesign document, and once it did the performance of the app is abysmal. I have a pretty high end iMac and Viva was struggling to even scroll through my document, which by the way is not very complex at all. Publisher is a performance beast compared to Viva. We just need the ability to import InDesign file, among other things. Blende21 1 Quote about.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 27 minutes ago, tomek said: We just need the ability to import InDesign file No need for INDD as we are able to open IDML. INDD is a locked format, so Serif has to reverse-engineer it, but opening IDML delivers extraordinary (in my opinion) results so far that I can live with the minor drawbacks here. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I'm happy to have IDML import. INDD import would be a nice bonus, but more important would be IDML export so that we could have a round-trip exchange format. Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomek Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Unfortunately I do not have access to the IDML file. INDD only for this particular document. But that's for pointing this out. From now on I will ask my collaborators to deliver IDML files for my workflow. Thanks again. Quote about.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Lucky you if you are on Mac. https://markzware.com/products/idmarkz/ Mark Oehlschlager and Eddie Aguirre 2 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 @Joachim_L Welche Mannschaft magst du lieber, 'Gladbach, Düsseldorf, Köln, Schalke, oder noch etwas anders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Joachim_L said: Allerdings darf ich ruhigen Gewissens behaupten, dass Fußball nicht meine Sportart ist, sondern Handball. Und wenn Fan, dann von der Damen-Mannschaft, die ich mittrainiere. Klasse! Wäre schön, wenn Serif ebenso auskunftsfreudig bzgl. lange erwarteter Korrekturen und Funktionen wäre. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Mark hat nett gefragt, ich habe geantwortet. Aber da es dich anscheinend gestört hat, habe ich die Antwort rausgenommen. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Joachim_L said: da es dich anscheinend gestört hat Wenn Sie mich meinen: nö! Wie denn auch? Da steht ja ein »Klasse!« Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarDO45 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 This is the year 2020. Is it possible to open an InDesign CS3 file in Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianB Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 28 minutes ago, KarDO45 said: This is the year 2020. Is it possible to open an InDesign CS3 file in Publisher? This is the year 2020. No. But you if you can export it to IDML then you can open the IDML file in Publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 33 minutes ago, AdrianB said: This is the year 2020. No. But you if you can export it to IDML then you can open the IDML file in Publisher. I believe .idml came at cs4. 1 hour ago, KarDO45 said: This is the year 2020. Is it possible to open an InDesign CS3 file in Publisher? The only means of porting cs3 and earlier ID files may be Markzware's utility, which at present is Mac only. And perhaps a script that's out there, but it may require a more recent version of ID. Else find someone with cs4 or newer to batch open and convert your files for you. AdrianB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianB Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 23 hours ago, MikeW said: I believe .idml came at cs4. Oh, yes, you are right, I forgot about that. Before CS4 there was the INX format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Pinkerton Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 It seems to me that there is a little bit of arrogance coming from members of this forum (or else it's sarcasm that I'm not picking up on). I don't want to use InDesign forever. Starting right now, I want to be able to create all NEW documents in Affinity. I just don't want all my idd documents to be lost forever -- the contents of everything from resumés to past theatre programs (I run a small theatre) are unavailable to me in Catalina, and Affinity won't open them. I would love nothing more than to convert them all into Affinity documents, and I would think Affinity would want me to. If MS Word can execute a nearly flawless translation of an idd resumé into a docx, I'm not sure why Affinity can't or doesn't want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 8 hours ago, Dan Pinkerton said: It seems to me that there is a little bit of arrogance coming from members of this forum (or else it's sarcasm that I'm not picking up on). I don't want to use InDesign forever. Starting right now, I want to be able to create all NEW documents in Affinity. I just don't want all my idd documents to be lost forever -- the contents of everything from resumés to past theatre programs (I run a small theatre) are unavailable to me in Catalina, and Affinity won't open them. I would love nothing more than to convert them all into Affinity documents, and I would think Affinity would want me to. If MS Word can execute a nearly flawless translation of an idd resumé into a docx, I'm not sure why Affinity can't or doesn't want to. I dunno where you are picking up either arrogance or sarcasm. Unless I am missing something, Word cannot natively open .indd filetypes. Word, as can APub, open pdfs, though. Nor, and again, unless I am missing it, can Word natively open .idml files though APub can. There are means of converting .indd files to .idml in order to open those .idml files in APub. But presently that means a third-party utility (Mac only at present) or using a version of ID that can run a script to individually or batch convert .indd, VivaDesigner (which can also open .indd directly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 12 hours ago, Dan Pinkerton said: I just don't want all my idd documents to be lost forever -- the contents of everything from resumés to past theatre programs (I run a small theatre) are unavailable to me in Catalina, and Affinity won't open them. As Mike said, you will either need to use a 3rd-part conversion tool, or temporarily install a version of InDesign that will run on Catalina, and do the conversion to IDML. 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...
dcrosby Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 I used a free script that was mentioned somewhere in these forums to convert hundreds of indd docs to idml format that Affinity understands. The process took about 15 minutes. Glad those docs won't go the way of my Freehand, Director and Flash files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 On 10/3/2020 at 12:16 AM, Dan Pinkerton said: It seems to me that there is a little bit of arrogance coming from members of this forum (or else it's sarcasm that I'm not picking up on). I don't want to use InDesign forever. Starting right now, I want to be able to create all NEW documents in Affinity. I just don't want all my idd documents to be lost forever -- the contents of everything from resumés to past theatre programs (I run a small theatre) are unavailable to me in Catalina, and Affinity won't open them. I would love nothing more than to convert them all into Affinity documents, and I would think Affinity would want me to. If MS Word can execute a nearly flawless translation of an idd resumé into a docx, I'm not sure why Affinity can't or doesn't want to. First off it is not Affinities responsibility to make sure you can open Indesign documents so you do not lose the ability to open them in the future. You can open IDML files now in Publisher so the feature is there now. I think the problem comes is people want a flawless conversion from Indesign to Affinity, and that is just not going to happen. They both have features that the other does not have, well at least Publisher cannot do certain things Indesign can, I am sure there is some the other way around but the big ones is Indesign can do more. This creates headaches for anyone trying to use Publisher and Indesign for collaborative work. A resume set in indesign and opening in Word (did not even know people did that) is going to be a very simple thing and maybe that is why your use has been close to flawless. Indesign is not a word processor and not a resume making app, it is page layout and the mainstay app for many in print and design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, wonderings said: A resume set in indesign and opening in Word (did not even know people did that) I did not know that Word could even do that. Is it a confirmed fact that Word can open either INDD or IDML files, because I cannot find it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, garrettm30 said: I did not know that Word could even do that. Is it a confirmed fact that Word can open either INDD or IDML files, because I cannot find it? No clue, I was going off of what Dan said in the post I quoted. Seems like a bizarre thing for Word to be able to do as Indesign is not a word processor and in most situations it must cause a real mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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