![]() ![]() You are opening yourself up to investigating the ineptitude of your users and supporting undocumented bugs in third party software. The level of cheapskate entitlement expressed in this thread will be as nothing to when these characters try to convert their inevitably botched documents and blame you if it doesn't work. I expect it will be just as messy as Quark to InDesign conversion.Īs someone with no skin in this game but with many years experience with data interchange I would seriously advise Affinity not to even consider supporting Adobe or other 3rd party formats. I hope people won't have the unrealistic expectation that INDL import will have as satisfactory results as though it were opening a native format. I generally find it easier to work that way than to try to fix all the inconsistencies left by conversion. Either I will keep printing from PDF, maybe importing that to Publisher to tweak the odd error we didn't catch the first time, or else import the IDML into Publisher only so I can manually move the content to a new Publisher file. When Publisher is able to release IDML import, I will surely do the same. When we have a converted file, I always create a fresh InDesign file and manually move over different elements, then I archive the converted file. InDesign itself can open the older Quark files, and the more recent (but still old) Quark files were converted by Markzware to InDesign. ![]() For some context, years ago we used Quark XPress, and we still have a number of files in that format. Otherwise I am left with all kinds of inconsistency. But in the end, it would have to be converted to PDF.įor my part, if I am moving a publication to new software, my main concern is to be able to get to the assets, particularly the text, but I don't keep the layout I recreate it afresh in the new software. If someone else has a suggestion, I too would like to know. If you receive an IDML file, you would still need some other program to be able to open an IDML and export to PDF, which besides InDesign itself, I don't really know what is out there. I think PDF is currently the only option. Hi, just wondering if anyone has a workaround to open IDML files in Affinity perhaps using another (free) program to convert it to a format Affinity can open? I have to say, that despite my earlier comments, I agree with you. I accept the flaws because the alternatives are slim and costly and because there are a lot of positives that the Affinity line brings to the table. I don't look a gift horse in the mouth. We're still at version 1.x. Otherwise, why not stick with Adobe? Adobe is the exploiter, Affinity is the alternative, even if imperfect. I think the only reason people are so upset is because Adobe is bleeding them dry with their subscription model. Then essentially bashing Serif for not seeing things their way. There are other issues I find more problematic, but I keep reading posts where some user insists his missing feature is the most import one of all. Import needs to be addressed no doubt, but it's not a deal breaker to me personally. Over the last 10 years no other company, neither Quark or Corel, or anyone else has even tried to create a full suite of pro design products. I'm not happy that the feature is not yet available but ecstatic that someone had the stones to compete with Adobe at all. ![]() Or you can get a copy of Xpress, which I believe imports INDD. If you have a bunch of INDD files you can continue working with them using InDesign as you have been. You're no worse off now than you were last month before Publisher was released. I imagine someone creating a new word processor app would have to ensure it was able to read MS Word documents, and this is no different.Īs mentioned, the IDML import is being worked on. It's a serious oversight to release version 1 after significant beta test, without this item. Maybe you're happy with a new product that can't read the interchange file format from the industry-leading product, but I'm not. There are certain basic expectations for any new product and at the minimum, it should be able to read existing files and not have to create them from scratch again. It's nothing to do with "level of entitlement". ![]()
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