In InDesign, you can do a File > Export and choose from various formats, including InDesign Markup, or IDML. It’s also a great way to back up your file. IDML effectively allows for backwards compatibility with newer versions of Adobe InDesign. Adobe defines IDML as an XML-based format for representing InDesign content. It’s the InDesign Markup Language from Adobe. I’ve often wondered, outside of real InDesign geeks, how many knew, or know, what IDML is? Well, it’s a good question, I Hate Living in Apartments.

I Hate Living in Apartments (YouTube user) had a great “what the heck is an InDesign IDML used for? what is the benefit of it?”

With InDesign, users can create and modify documents, graphics, images, visual components, and other document items. IDML stands for InDesign Markup Language, which was developed by Olav Martin Kvern, Adobe staffer and co-author (with David Blatner and Bob Bringhurst) of the “Real World Adobe InDesign” book series.Īdobe’s InDesign application is among a variety of applications that are available to Creative Cloud subscription holders. Essentially, it is a major revision of INX, InDesign’s previous XML-based file format – something that can be reasonably assembled and disassembled by a competent programmer.” Per the Adobe InDesign Markup Language Cookbook, “IDML is an XML-based format for representing InDesign content.

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