this post may seem like a duplicate from my other post, “Is is possible to export Inkscape files for inDesign?” but this completely different.
I need to open my inDesign CS5 files in Ubuntu but I can’t seem to find a free vector program that can open inDesign files ( or files exported by inDesing CS5 )
Please note that I can’t work with a bitmap or a layer merged vector.
Answer
The development version of Scribus can open IDML files (InDesign Markup Language, the official import/export file format for applications that have to work together with InDesign). I am not sure how good the IDML support is currently, so you will have to test yourself…
If you want to try the latest development version of Scribus, there is a PPA for that. But remember that these are daily builds of the development version, and they are probably not ready to be used for production work yet (and every day a new version will be available, which may fix some issues, but also introduce new ones).
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : MetaDark , Answer Author : JanC
