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Is it possible? I have someone flinching because I am not using Adobe InDesign to do a brochure for him. I told him that I could export to an InDesign format but that statement of mine doesn't look like it is true.
Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2.
Well, this makes an option to offer exporting from Affinity Publisher to InDesign useless if it can't be edited in InDesign. I have edited many PDF files in Affinity Publisher without a problem. Works great!
Do people only charge for an Affinity Publisher or InDesign PDF (or photo or graphic files) or do people give them the source file (.afpub or whatever the InDesign file is) so that they can change it to their liking and/or use it to create their own future documents/graphics? I think I should search for graphic designer services and see what they say in their Request For Proposal document or contracts to see how this works.
It's mainly done using Illustrator or Acrobat pro for people using CC, but since it means having the font installed to modify the text, it usually means correcting files, generally adds send by clients.
Layout apps give a lot more options and tools for producing documents.
In some cases, it'll be important to know which app you're using, and that'll be one of the first questions/or they'll ask for a specific file format. In other, you'll be free to use the apps you want.
Yes, someone could edit your PDFs you created with an Affinity app, since PDF is no "secure" or even encrypted file format. Besides Adobe or Affinity apps there exist for years already applications which can edit a PDF. They often are used by pre-press or print services, originally/historically to repair failures in a PDF done by designers with a lack in knowledge or understanding about export preferences.
The later file type ".joboptions" was developed to avoid those issues. It can be published by a print service to get used by designers and it does the export setup according to the printer's needs. Unfortunately Affinity currently does not support .joboption files.
PDF is a "final render display" of a file. That means it'll only export on specified area how the page should be, in vectors and raster data, locking everything in its final position. That's why it's perfect for print (exporting as PDF). Every superfluous data used by the app is deleted. Some app can open and modify PDF, butthey won't know anything important, only where each item (character, image...) is positioned, and offer to modify them. Some apps like Affinity ones, for example, try to deduce lines and paragraphs from a PDF page, when and where it's only successive informations about where each character is describe and positionned. That's why it's not always accurate.
We can compare this (Illustrator or another app's file) to an Excel table, with lot of columns with complex formulas processing each data you enter, to calculate and automatically input the results in some other cells.
PDF would be the simple text file resulting of displaying the final content of the columns. No way to understand or read the formulas, to modify some line and have the result updated.
When you create a file in APub/inDesign/QXPress, etc., the important features are text and object styles, their relations, the master pages, the colour palette to use, variables, etc.
Nothing that will be found in a PDF. You can open a PDF in APub or another app and try to deduce them, but you'll only have part of the datas.
... Is it possible? I have someone flinching because I am not using Adobe InDesign to do a brochure for him. I told him that I could export to an InDesign format but that statement of mine doesn't look like it is true. ...
You *might* be fine using VivaDesigner as it has very good IDML import/export. (And can open .indd files, too.) But until such time as Serif adds .idml export, APub will not work in an ID collaborative work-flow.
Most designers are producing page layouts for publications using InDesign, the industry standard. Publications typically have to be shared with other designers who need to repurpose the content with the design software they use. Therefore, an ideal utility that would make Affinity Publisher fit in the workflow of other designers would convert Affinity Publisher files to .idml files. It would be best if the conversion did not require many tweeks to make the text flow and appear exactly like the original Affinity layout when opened in InDesign, but without some capability to export to a format that can be opened in InDesign you just have a stand-alone product. That not how the advertising and publishing world works. Placing a .pdf in either Affinity Publisher or InDesign does not make the content "live" and editable in either application.
What would also be brilliant if this were possible - there would be a path for converting AI files to InDesign which currently can't be done. AI files can open perfectly in Designer with text blocks and everything fully editable. Designer files can then be opened in Publisher also in near-perfect shape. If they could then be saved as editable InDesign files Affinity would have achieved what even Adobe can't do.
Case in point - simply copying a line of text with an inline graphic to a master page, it would not copy the graphic. It would allow me to copy the graphic separately and then set up new on the master page but that is like going back to 1970 and saying I only need 8k of RAM because I only want to do things one single element at a time, but not because my MacBook can't handle, it's because the app is just broken.
My assumption (and we know what happens when one assumes) is that it would look O.K., but not be editable. Going in the other direction, InDesign to Publisher, requires the InDesign document to be output as an IDML file, and the result is good but not perfect.
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