Batch convert INDD files into IDML format
Follow these instructions to install a script that batch converts Adobe InDesign files to IDML file format.
- Close all the open documents in InDesign
- Choose Window > Utilities > Scripts
- Right click on User and choose Reveal in Finder (Mac) or Reveal in Explorer (PC)
- Unzip the 'batch_convert.jsxbin.zip' file
Download the script - Copy the file 'batch_convert.jsxbin' in the 'Scripts Panel' folder
- Back to InDesign, click on 'batch_convert.jsxbin'
- Set IDML as a target format and choose an input and an output folder
- Click on 'OK', and wait for the script to complete the batch conversion.
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The script was made by Peter Kahrel, who generously shared this along other useful scripts on his website. Also, here is a video explaining the process step by step: How to Batch Convert InDesign files to IDML and other formats
Help Index
- How to translate an InDesign file
- Web Editor: Translate your files online
- Translate with Excel files
- Translate InDesign files with XLIFF
- Joining a translation project
- Translation tool (Web Editor) overview
- Delete a document
- Uploading a new revision
- Archive a document
- Deleting a target language
- Change an assigned translator
- Add a target language to your account
- Add a translator to your account
- Match translators with the languages they translate
- Working in a team
- Pre-Translate
- Translation memories
- Configuring InDesign before exporting the IDML
- Text segmentation, Tags and Markers
- Web Editor: saving translations
- Filters applied during InDesign file import
- Translate using ContextMatch
- Threaded text-frame limitations
- The InDesign Extension
- View and update your TMs with TM Manager
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