: Export from InDesign for Scribus I'm not very well-versed with commercial graphic design tools and only know the basic things with open source tools. I've had someone create a brochure for me

@Lee3735518

Scribus 1.4.x (the one mentioned in the wiki article you're linking) has no way to exchange content with InDesign (in the way you're aiming to).

Scribus 1.6 (the next future stable version) will have some ways, but I'm not sure that you will be really able to go back and forth between InDesign and Scribus.

The features are already in the Scribus 1.5.x development version and you can you can currently "import" IDML and IDMS files from InDesign.

The quality of the import is rather good but not perfect yet:


We need more test files that fail to fix the importer.
Scribus and InDesign do not have exactly the same features set, so it's not always possible to import every item in the InDesign file.


You can get the latest Scribus 1.5.x in many ways:


from the official download page
from a PPA
from HomeBrew
...


Test it and see if it fits your needs.

Exporting to IDML is not there yet, but if there is interest for it, somebody sponsors it (and eventually somebody else programs it) it should not be that hard to create an exporter from the Scribus native format to IDML.

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