If you need a quick evaluation on what future work flow to chose you can contact me in a PM. Up til now I know and use only one official free program for layout use: Īny change of program will mean a rebuild of all your actual files in that program. There are not many alternatives to InDesign and the professional ones are even more expensive! You could use an older install/version of InDesign, chance is you can open all old files without conversion.

If some or many of those documents are layout heavy and when lay-outing has to be precise, you have to use a specialized layout program. Problem with may ‘office’ files is that the document you made can show/print different on other computers/printers. If general text editing with some design features suit those docs well you can use any ‘office’ writer program, but here we prefer Libre Writer of course. You have to investigate what kind of program you need for you documents. indd files in any of today’s ‘Office’ programs, you can only open files exported from InDesign in the/a desired file format. If you cannot isolate the items that make scribus fail, you can also upload full documents to the bug tracker and if you're not allowed to publish them on the internet, you can mark the ticket as private and it will only be visible to the developers.Before reading this answer, please read my comments. Having simpler documents helps the developers focus on the issue to be solved. You should not forget to also upload a png or pdf that shows how the document is supposed to look like. You can also replace the real content through fake content and make the documents lighter to share.

if it's the case, now you have a simple document to submit. Get a Clue From the File Type One file extension can be used for multiple types of files. Check out the developers’ websites, download one or more of these programs, then try to open your INDD file again. you can copy paste them in new documents and try if importing the simpler document shows the same issue. One of the most popular programs for opening INDD files is InDesign Document.

You might notice that in your documents, some types of items do not render well when imported in scribus. (the item could also be a page size, crop marks or styles.) A simple document is a document that has only one or two items in it.

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