Affinity Publisher in Adobe Indesign

[thomasbellili]

I've created a complete document in Affinity Publisher, I would like to know how I can open it in Adobe Indesign ? Because I would like at the end a .indd file with my text element.

I export in PDF to open in Indesign but it doesn't work !

[Chris26]

As far as I can tell IDD will not recognise the affinity PDF either through the open or the place command.  Saving as PSD will also not work.  But then why would you want to work in Affinity and then transfer to IDD?  

[jmwellborn]

For the life of me I cannot think why anybody who has a computer and the chance to learn Publisher would want to use it to go back to that cash-gobbling Adobe product.   But then, nobody asked me.  

[thomasbellili]

4 hours ago, Chris26 said:

As far as I can tell IDD will not recognise the affinity PDF either through the open or the place command.  Saving as PSD will also not work.  But then why would you want to work in Affinity and then transfer to IDD?  

49 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

For the life of me I cannot think why anybody who has a computer and the chance to learn Publisher would want to use it to go back to that cash-gobbling Adobe product.   But then, nobody asked me.  

I love so much to work on Affinity Publisher but for my studies have I have to give a .indd file. It's still the standard. 

[dominik]

11 hours ago, thomasbellili said:

I love so much to work on Affinity Publisher but for my studies have I have to give a .indd file. It's still the standard. 

To my knowledge there is no way to open a native APub file in InDesign. You can place a PDF that was created in APub in an InDesign document of the same size but you cannot edit the content of the placed PDF (just tried in CS6).

You could save this InDesign document in its .indd format and give it away but I doubt that would be accepted 

I think the best way would be to work in InDesign for your studies and to use APub for everything else. Often we have to use certain tools that are given to us in a certain situation. And it is also good to know different tools.

d.

[thomasbellili]

3 hours ago, dominik said:

To my knowledge there is no way to open a native APub file in InDesign. You can place a PDF that was created in APub in an InDesign document of the same size but you cannot edit the content of the placed PDF (just tried in CS6).

You could save this InDesign document in its .indd format and give it away but I doubt that would be accepted 

I think the best way would be to work in InDesign for your studies and to use APub for everything else. Often we have to use certain tools that are given to us in a certain situation. And it is also good to know different tools.

d.

Thank you for your reply ! This is unfortunate. I would have thought a PDF could do it.

[MikeW]

As dominik wrote, if a client asked me to turn over ID files at the end of a project, I would use ID to create their work.

If I was taking classes and an ID file was required to turn the classroom work in, I would use ID to create that work—unless I got clearance to use something other than ID for the class work. I have heard of some classes where the instructors have approved such things up front.

RECOSOFT makes PDF2ID. As far as I know, their plug-in is the only means of moving a PDF into ID format and one needs to understand that there can be from little to a lot of work once PDF2ID has converted a PDF for use in ID.

[Michail]

18 hours ago, thomasbellili said:

I love so much to work on Affinity Publisher but for my studies have I have to give a .indd file. It's still the standard. 

When will those responsible finally realize that InDesign is NOT a standard?!
The standard format is PDF - NOT Indd. How I create a PDF is up to me. Any good application that creates an error-free PDF is welcome.

[MikeW]

5 minutes ago, Michail said:

When will those responsible finally realize that InDesign is NOT a standard?!
The standard format is PDF - NOT Indd. How I create a PDF is up to me. Any good application that creates an error-free PDF is welcome.

Classroom work for layout is usually judged by the result in the native application—PDFs can hide a bunch of errors in how one constructed a file. PDFs are only a standard for print, not how one got there.

Like it or not, whatever layout application is permitted for classroom work is the standard for the class. But in the real world, ID is the most used application for layout and by whatever measure makes it the standard. Some schools do use different layout applications and some allow a variety. But if the class requisite is ID, then nothing else would be acceptable to check the course work.

If I was teaching a class on final output for print, I would list acceptable applications for creating those final PDFs and I would check each one for the creator string and would flat out reject PDFs not made with those acceptable applications if the student did not seek an exception. If a student could not follow those instructions then they at least fail that part of the class. If a student cannot follow class instructions, that indicates how well they can follow instructions in the real world, which is part of what they are learning in class.