Convert PDF to INDD
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC can edit PDF's read images and text, and it is possible to edit, so why is this function not available in Adobe Indesign? Indesign has more control and the only feature that will needed to be added is detecting strokes/filled objects converting filled lines or shapes to one to the other.
Thank you all for the feedback.
We have added this feature in our backlog. Will share more updates when we pick this up for implementation.
Thanks
Abhinav Agarwal
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Anonymous commented
Please make it possible to convert a PDF file to an InDesign file from Acrobat or make it possible to directly open a PDF in InDesign and make it editable. PLEASE DO IT SOOOONNNN!!!
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Dmitriy Palatnik commented
OH, ABSOLUTELY! Why pay a third party company to switch formats that belong to the same company??
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Taylor commented
I join the other voices in saying, WOW, the ability to open a PDF created by InDesign can't be opened by InDesign?!? And it's in backlog as of July 10, 2018. Didn't Adobe move to a cloud platform and subscription service in 2013 to keep innovation and updates happening in a timely fashion? Five years and no integration and innovation between Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe InDesign? It seems like something that should have been worked on from day one of the "Creative Suite" creation.
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Anonymous commented
I actually purchased InDesign so that I could copy edit documents. Now it's basically been a complete waste as this issue wasn't flagged when I browsed the programme. I should have checked. Most designers save docs as .pdfs and as copy editors, we need to unlock those docs and edit them. Frustrating.
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Anonymous commented
Please make it possible to convert a PDF file to an InDesign file from Acrobat or make it possible to directly open a PDF in InDesign and make it editable.
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Roxane commented
Yes please make this possible! Direct convert PDF file to InDesign file from Acrobat or direct open a PDF file in InDesign would really save time and quality for sure! I don't want to have to pay a third party company to switch formats that belong to the same company anymore!
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Anonymous commented
can someone just convert my pdf file to indd please
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Anonymous commented
would be a great addition to indesign!!!
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Anonymous commented
This plug in would be great to have!
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MortW commented
If other companies have the brain cells to do the conversion from pdf back to indd why does not Adobe have those brain cells? After all they should know both programs more so than anyone. Something seems amiss here!
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David B commented
Just a reminder that there are commercial products that can convert PDF to INDD files, including PDF2ID from Recosoft and PDF2DTP from Markzware.
While it seems like Adobe should be able to simply "add" this feature to InDesign, it's far harder than you might at first expect, especially for untagged pdfs. For example, many (most?) PDF files do not have any inherent sense of structure, so they don't say "this is a story, this is a sentence…" In some cases, it's not even clear what is a single word in the PDF vs a bunch of unrelated letters on the page. The software has to "look" at the page or pages and make assumptions. Some of the third-party companies have been doing this for a decade or more, and their experience helps.
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john commented
YES Please add pdf to Indesign.
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Anonymous commented
Please make a plug-in to covert PDF to indesign
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Bastian Saris commented
short and simple - yes, please!!
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Jim Ames commented
1. I had assume since a PDF is a Adobe format, all their other products would accept it.
2. I have MANY projects that we save and share as a PDF so changes can not be readily made by people who are not using Adobe products but need to incorporate into other projects.
3. Why should we have to pay a third party company to switch formats that belong to the same company? -
Bart Van Put commented
Javed, do you want more info or clarification on this ?
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Forest Cotten commented
It makes no sense. The most common, in fact, almost only, document export from InDesign is a PDF. But ... I CANNOT open that PDF, or any other, ever again in InDesign and edit it. I can post a shiny picture of my PDF, thanks.
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Anonymous commented
I can't get a PDF.
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Bart Van Put commented
1. Recuperate txt + preview of product (sheets) of lost layouts
2. Depends
3. Options for opening : deciding if you want single line text boxes or some sort of intelligence to decide how close text could be together to form a single text box. Font characteristics would be nice but optional. Convert lookalike fonts to a single family maybe ? otherwise I don't see it feasible with the adobe masters to convert back to a single correct font. -
AnthonyMuscaWork commented
1. Sometimes old original PDFs dating back 5 years are keep and wished to be update and changed, but the original INDD has since been lost/deleted, being able to open these PDFS in InDesign as an editable INDD would be very handy, this conversion allowing the document being able to be edited the same way the PDF's are edited in Acrobat: changing text, images;etc. The reason of wanting to do this in INDD and simply not just Acrobat is that InDesign has a lot more control for Graphic Designers than Acrobat, in terms of text settings, set styles, smart guides, creating shapes;etc.
2. Entire PDF in most cases. Note sometimes entire PDFs are only a few pages anyway.
3. Use-case: At the company I currently work at I'm the in-house Graphic Designer. I am the '3rd' in-house Graphic Designer to work at this company in the past 10+ years. A big part of my job at the moment is editing errors and adjusting the format of old INDD documents and exporting them to PDFs, the company packages these printed PDFs with there products. In some cases these old INDD (which majority of I did not make) are lost, and the entire document has to be remade because there is just too much to change and add in Acrobat. These documents have been around at this company for many, many years as some files were original made in Pagemaker, as this company has been around for 30 years now. If I could export these PDF files into a format that InDesign could read and edit it would save me a lot of time in the workplace.
How I would want this to work: The conversion would allow the PDF file to work in Indesign the same way as when you hit the edit button in Adobe Acrobat DC. Maybe rather than having text in separate lines, if the program could detects the same case size for text one once sentence being above or under one another, a nice feature would be to convert these lines to a text frame with leading detected and set the same way case size is when you edit docs in Acrobat. Also adding a feature that detects strokes/filled objects and converts these to one or the other would be nice.