![]() After upgrading to High Sierra on the real HD, I find that my CS 5 apps work there fine as well, so still very usable. However, after some work and research, I upgraded my Parallels and added a Sierra Guest VM where my CS5 apps run just fine. So, for me the question will be, will Publisher be able to handle, one way or another, InDesign CS6 files which, after all, are stable not not subject to change?Īs a side note to using CS5-6 ID and PS with macOS changes, it had held us back from upgrading to High Sierra. The only Adobe app I still need is Lightroom because I have so many legacy files which Affinity Photo can't handle. For that matter, even 10.14 Mojave still supports 32 bit apps, however grudgingly. But I won't have to worry about that for awhile I'm still using macOS 10.12.6 Sierra. Unfortunately it's not a 64 bit app on the Mac. In the meantime, I still use InDesign CS6. ![]() And it's why I'm looking to Publisher going forward. Which is one reason, besides the price, I have not upgraded to InDesign CC. If one needs to collaborate with ID users, one really has to use ID, and the same version at that. Else rent for a month once in a while and only convert those files that are needed. There are scripts that can package CC files, including creating the IDML, and these scripts can act on hole file structures / file folders. Else there would be a long lag time between Adobe's release of a new CC version and APub's ability to open them. At some point, once there is a new revision, APub wouldn't be able to open them, Serif would quickly ferret out what changed (and there is no real spec for INDD files), and then update APub. Going after INDD support would be an onerous task. Work on opening INDD.Īs mentioned before, Adobe changes the file spec each and every revision. ![]() So I think it’s a bit of a waist of time for Affinity to work on opening IDML. ![]() OR for publisher to actually open INDD files. The only way to have CC users quit CC and use APublisher is for them to translate 1000’s of files to idml or PDF before cancelling their subscription. If you are CC translating idml files will also need a current CC subscription to translate. In my mind I think a huge majority of designers here (like me) will find the PDF translation good enough. Links can be easy to fix if all your images are in one file though. That said I know some people have files that have tables or some other complicated files that PDFs don’t work well with. Which has/had to be done when InDesign opened old quark files. Most people who didn’t upgrade to CC can simply make a PDF with old CS and fiddle a bit, done. TMSN: Have you tried opening a PDF made with InDesign, with APublisher yet? I have about 3000 indd files and CS4. Fail to and no one will buy it 'cause they'll be isolated from the rest of the design community. Integrate with InDesign and users will start to migrate from Adobe's very expensive subscription model. InDesign is used by such a huge proportion of the market that it's inevitable that Publisher users are going to have to be able to read and write InDesign files to be able to work effectively in the wider design ecosystem. InDesign integration is absolutely essential, otherwise Affinity might as well pack up and go home.
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