Export to ePub? Import InDesign files?

[Pilgrim]

Affinity Publisher absolutely MUST have an export to e-book, especially ePub feature. Is that planned for the initial edition? I hope so... otherwise, the Publisher program works awesomely and is easily adaptable, after using PageMaker and InDesign for many, many years. 

Secondly, I would desperately like to see Affinity Publisher capable of importing .indd (InDesign) files. I have many of them, that are now unusable.  Please build that into the program!

kaf

[emmrecs01]

Hi, welcome to the Affinity forums.

Your questions are about Affinity Publisher but you have posted to the Affinity Designer suggestions forum.  The suggestions forum for Publisher is here.  Perhaps you should repost there.

I'm pretty certain I have read more than once that ePub is not going to feature in the first release of Publisher; perhaps later.

If you do a search in the forum on ID files you will find a considerable number of posts where Serif staff and developers have explained that the format of .indd files is proprietary (private, owned by Adobe) and so it is impossible to create an importer for it.  I also understand that the related .idml format files will be able to be imported at some future date.

Jeff