desktoppublishinguser Posted July 3, 2019 Posted July 3, 2019 Will Affinity Publisher open/import InDesign documents? If Affinity Publisher imports IDML files it would be a help, but it would also mean that I need to open over 300 InDesign documents and then export them as IDML. When I upgrade my Mac OS, InDesign CS6 will no longer function, and I cannot afford the subscription cost to upgrade InDesign. I am looking at Affinity or Quark as alternatives. Markzware makes a converter from InDesign to Quark, but it costs $200, plus the competitive upgrade price to buy Quark for $450. If I can open InDesign documents directly in Affinity, it would be a major cost and time saver. Thank you for your assistance. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @desktoppublishinguser. A bit of forum searching for InDesign or IDML would find many posts and discussions about this, and with a bit more effort the responses from Serif. The current plan, expressed by Serif, is that Publisher will allow import of IDML documents at some point in the future. No support of InDesign documents is planned, from what they've said. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
MikeW Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Been asked and answered several times... There will be an IDML import added at a later date. There is a free script for ID that can process a whole folder or drive and export ID files into an IDML copy. That IDML can be imported into QXP directly now, or eventually into APub once it is added. Quote
Fixx Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 6 hours ago, MikeW said: There is a free script for ID that can process a whole folder or drive and export ID files into an IDML copy Have you tested if it saves IDML right next to original when run as batch process? Would be nice it it were in the right place. Quote
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