huber 21 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 I'm a new user of affinity how can I import my indd files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 13, 2019 Hi huber 21, Welcome to Affinity Forums No, Affinity Publisher don't support .INDD files. We hope to add support for InDesign IDML files later in an upcoming version to help transfer files to Affinity. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huber 21 Posted August 13, 2019 Author Share Posted August 13, 2019 how would you recommend to import these files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 13, 2019 Export them as PDF from InDesign. It's not ideal but it's the best format available at this point. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 @MEB Any ideas on a timescale on IDML support? 6 months? A year? Sure would be nice to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 13, 2019 Hi Chris L, Welcome to Affinity Forums Sorry, I don't know. Maybe someone from the dev can give you an idea. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 For now, you can copy-paste text from inDesign to APub, and the styles will follow. I would recommande first to use some inDesign scripts: one that will create a frame containing an example of each of your Paragraph styles, another that do the same will each of your Character styles, and copying the content of those frames in APub. This way, you'll have all you styles in an APub document. (If you copy-paste text from ID, you won't have all of them). You can open PDF files of your documents in APub, but don't forget to export as PDF your inDesign master pages, or you'll miss them if they aren't all used in the PDF you open. You can find those scripts in this thread: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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