Convert ai to idml

Conversion of ai file format to idml file format ^beta

Search for ai to idml converter or software able to handle these file types.

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Convert Adobe Illustrator graphics to InDesign Markup Language document.

We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .ai to .idml file format conversion.

Adobe Illustrator and InDesign might share some functions, but they are used for different things which makes direct ai to idml conversion problematic. Users looking for ai to idml conversion are pretty much always do that because of printing reasons as printers often prefer InDesign format over Illustrator.

You can certainly place AI files as objects inside InDesign document (File ► Place), but you won't be able to change anything. Another option would be just to manually copy over data between Illustrator nd InDesign (copy+paste method). Third option is to use PDF as middle format, in which you export your Illustrator with PDF compatibility in mind and import that to InDesign.

It is unlikely some dedicated converter for this exists as it is far from simple file conversion.

Updated: January 31, 2023

Microsoft Windows software - convert ai to idml on Windows

Adobe InDesign

Professional desktop document publishing software from Adobe

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from ai file	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
to idml file	No	Yes	Yes	idml editor	Yes	No	No	No

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned ai to idml. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

Apple macOS / Mac OS X software - convert ai to idml on OS X

Adobe InDesign for Mac

Mac version od Adobe's popular document designing and publishing software

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
ai	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
idml	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Additional links: Open ai file, Open idml file

An ai file extension is associated with Adobe Illustrator and used for vector graphic file created in the program. CorelDraw is also able import and work with ai file.

IDML

Files with idml extension can be usually found as InDesign documents saved in special InDesign Markup language.

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