[Framers] Importing InDesign IDML into two tools. Was RE: FM 10 on a new computer.

[Robert Lauriston]

Did you try exporting from InDesign as RTF?

Even if they're not using the same library, such as
https://github.com/jorisros/IDMLlib , other applications will
inevitably have trouble reading IDM if they can't do everything that
InDesign can.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:12 PM Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
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> A last update.
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> Reading the IDML back into InDesign worked fine - looked like the original!
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> So, both these other tools have some limitations importing IDML.
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> Although Affinity Publisher was a small amount better (not enough to justify my getting yet another editing tool - I will get the trial lapse).
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> So, they are clearly fine for *new* work, but importing IDML from InDesign would require repair to fix some errors - which errors, as mentioned earlier, surprisingly overlapped in the tools.