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IDML stands for InDesign Markup Language. IDML files are ZIP archives, containing numerous XML files. This set of files represent a complete InDesign document, including not only their design content, but also the settings and resources in effect when they were saved. Its primary uses are to provide some compatibility between documents created in different versions of InDesign, and to allow documents to be exported for manipulation by other tools.

IDML (InDesign Markup Language) is an XML-based format, introduced in Adobe InDesign CS4, for representing InDesign content. IDML is used in several InDesign and InCopy file types:

IDML files (or packages) are ZIP archives, containing numerous XML files. The entire set of these files represent a complete InDesign document. The files in an archive are described thoroughly in Adobe InDesign CS4 IDML File Format Specification. IDML files are identified by the *.idml file extension.

  • Snippets are IDML-based files that describe a subset of an InDesign document. They are not archives, but single XML files that contain IDML. The application UI, scripting facility, and plug-in API allow you to export snippets from InDesign. Most commonly, such a snippet represents a page item or group of page items. These type of snippets usually are identified by the *.inds file extension.
  • ICML (InCopy Markup Language) files are a special type of snippet. An ICML file represent s a single InCopy story using IDML. ICML files use the *.icml file extension.
  • InCopy assignment files are another type of IDML snippet. They are used to allow multiple writers to work on one InDesign document. Assignment files use the *.icma extension.
  • There are other features that leverage IDML; for example, exporting preflight profiles produces an IDML-based file
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    JsonMappingException (was java.lang.NullPointerException)

    I've been searching for this for a while but haven't found any answers, so either I'm missing something so obvious noone has written anything about it, or I've hit an unusual problem. I'm hoping it's the first... I'm working with a third-party…
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    Any kind of external IDML Viewer

    starting with InDesign CS 5, there is a new format, called IDML, that defines a document to be rendered by InDesign. I'm looking for a way to view this format without opening InDesign (which is damn too heavy). The optimum solution would be an…
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    IDML Polygon to SVG

    I have this Polygon in a idml file
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    Identify coordinates for a visual element in idml

    I need to process Indesign Idml files, generate an image, and overlay other elements over certain elements in html. Given an Indesign Idml file (which is a package of zipped xml) and given a visual element in that file (via a tag in the xml). Is…
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    Rust serde: Deserializing XML when order matters

    I am building a xml parser in rust using the serde-xml-rs crate. I have some XML, that looks something like this: value First line …
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    How to extract image from IDML file using IDMLlib

    I need to parse an IDML file and save the images separately from that file in formats for the Web. Can I do that IDMLlib? And if it's possible then can you show me some examples? P.S. The documentation of that library is awful, and the examples…
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    IDML : How are shapes stored in IDML files?

    I have encountered multiple shapes while reading IDML spreads. Each Shape has it's own geometry that looks like - - - -
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    html idml viewer

    I am trying to implement a c# idml to html converter. I've managed to produce a single flat html file similar to the one produced by the indesign export. What I would like to do is to produce html that will be as similar as possible to the indesign…
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    Logical order of Story XML in IDML

    I am new to IDML and I am trying to understand this. I have figured out that IDML is zip file containing multiple XML files. I have opened the designmap.xml and saw the StoryLine attribute in Document element. However, this order in the StoryLine…
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    SimpleIDML How to convert IDML to PDF?

    I am new to INDD CC Server. I have Implemented Indesign server running on Windows. I need to convert IDML to PDF but having issues. I have used SimpleIDML Python library to manipulate Adobe(r) IDML(r) files. My sample script is I2P.py from…
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    IDML : What are Kinsoku/Mojikumi tables?

    I am new to the world of Adobe InDesign and IDML file format. I am trying to understand the IDML file format so that I can create IDML files dynamically through code! I am going through the IDML File format specification and have found references to…
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    Reading IDML coordinate hell

    I am trying to parse an IDML spread containing a few rectangles, 8 in total. The rectangles are copy-pasted from one original rectangle, rotated and positioned on the spread. In the IDML file, all the rectangles appear to have the same origin…
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    Unable to Create New XDocument with namespace from scratch

    We are trying to create a new XML document with the below content using XDocument without querying an existing one:
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    Position text inside rectangle

    We have a webapp where we draw a map for a event we host, now we are trying to get the datasaved into our database into indesign to be able to edit and print it from there. the webversion map looks like this: the code im using for this atm is …
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    Converting IDML to HTML5 thru script

    I am trying to convert IDML into HTML5 through script, not through InDesign. Everything comes out ok except for the rotated texts in the IDML. When the text is rotated, I take the values from ItemTransform of IDML and follow the geometrical…
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