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How to edit Adobe InDesign files with Scribus and Gedit
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![](https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/open-indesign-scribus-gedit-graphic.jpg?itok=OPJaGdA5)
To be a good graphic designer, you must be adept at using the profession's tools, which for most designers today are the ones in the proprietary Adobe Creative Suite.
However, there are times that open source tools will get you out of a jam. For example, imagine you're a commercial printer tasked with printing a file created in Adobe InDesign. You need to make a simple change (e.g., fixing a small typo) to the file, but you don't have immediate access to the Adobe suite. While these situations are admittedly rare, open source tools like desktop publishing software [Scribus][1] and text editor [Gedit][2] can save the day.
In this article, I'll show you how I edit Adobe InDesign files with Scribus and Gedit. Note that there are many open source graphic design solutions that can be used instead of or in conjunction with Adobe InDesign. For more on this subject, check out my articles: [Expensive tools aren't the only option for graphic design (and never were)][3] and [2 open][4][source][4][Adobe InDesign scripts][4].
When developing this solution, I read a few blogs on how to edit InDesign files with open source software but did not find what I was looking for. One suggestion I found was to create an EPS from InDesign and open it as an editable file in Scribus, but that did not work. Another suggestion was to create an IDML (an older InDesign file format) document from InDesign and open that in Scribus. That worked much better, so that's the workaround I used in the following examples.
### Editing a business card
Opening and editing my InDesign business card file in Scribus worked fairly well. The only issue I had was that the tracking (the space between letters) was a bit off and the upside-down "J" I used to create the lower-case "f" in "Jeff" was flipped. Otherwise, the styles and colors were all intact.
![Business card in Adobe InDesign][6]
Business card designed in Adobe InDesign.
![InDesign IDML file opened in Scribus][8]
InDesign IDML file opened in Scribus.
### Deleting copy in a paginated book
The book conversion didn't go as well. The main body of the text was OK, but the table of contents and some of the drop caps and footers were messed up when I opened the InDesign file in Scribus. Still, it produced an editable document. One problem was some of my blockquotes defaulted to Arial font because a character style (apparently carried over from the original Word file) was on top of the paragraph style. This was simple to fix.
![Book layout in InDesign][10]
Book layout in InDesign.
![InDesign IDML file of book layout opened in Scribus][12]
InDesign IDML file of book layout opened in Scribus.
Trying to select and delete a page of text produced surprising results. I placed the cursor in the text and hit Command+A (the keyboard shortcut for "select all"). It looked like one page was highlighted. However, that wasn't really true.
![Selecting text in Scribus][14]
Selecting text in Scribus.
When I hit the Delete key, the entire text string (not just the highlighted page) disappeared.
![Both pages of text deleted in Scribus][16]
Both pages of text deleted in Scribus.
Then something even more interesting happened… I hit Command+Z to undo the deletion. When the text came back, the formatting was messed up.
![Undo delete restored the text, but with bad formatting.][18]
Command+Z (undo delete) restored the text, but the formatting was bad.
### Opening a design file in a text editor
If you open a Scribus file and an InDesign file in a standard text editor (e.g., TextEdit on a Mac), you will see that the Scribus file is very readable whereas the InDesign file is not.
You can use TextEdit to make changes to either type of file and save it, but the resulting file is useless. Here's the error I got when I tried re-opening the edited file in InDesign.
![InDesign error message][20]
InDesign error message.
I got much better results when I used Gedit on my Linux Ubuntu machine to edit the Scribus file. I launched Gedit from the command line and voilà, the Scribus file opened, and the changes I made in Gedit were retained.
![Editing Scribus file in Gedit][22]
Editing a Scribus file in Gedit.
![Result of the Gedit edit in Scribus][24]
Result of the Gedit edit opened in Scribus.
This could be very useful to a printer that receives a call from a client about a small typo in a project. Instead of waiting to get a new file, the printer could open the Scribus file in Gedit, make the change, and be good to go.
### Dropping images into a file
I converted an InDesign doc to an IDML file so I could try dropping in some PDFs using Scribus. It seems Scribus doesn't do this as well as InDesign, as it failed. Instead, I converted my PDFs to JPGs and imported them into Scribus. That worked great. However, when I exported my document as a PDF, I found that the files size was rather large.
![Huge PDF file][26]
Exporting Scribus to PDF produced a huge file.
I'm not sure why this happened—I'll have to investigate it later.
Do you have any tips for using open source software to edit graphics files? If so, please share them in the comments.
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via: https://opensource.com/article/18/7/adobe-indesign-open-source-tools
作者：[Jeff Macharyas][a]
选题：[lujun9972](https://github.com/lujun9972)
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[a]:https://opensource.com/users/rikki-endsley
[1]:https://www.scribus.net/
[2]:https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit
[3]:https://opensource.com/life/16/8/open-source-alternatives-graphic-design
[4]:https://opensource.com/article/17/3/scripts-adobe-indesign
[5]:/file/402516
[6]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/1-business_card_designed_in_adobe_indesign_cc.png (Business card in Adobe InDesign)
[7]:/file/402521
[8]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2-indesign_.idml_file_opened_in_scribus.png (InDesign IDML file opened in Scribus)
[9]:/file/402531
[10]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/3-book_layout_in_indesign.png (Book layout in InDesign)
[11]:/file/402536
[12]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/4-indesign_.idml_file_of_book_opened_in_scribus.png (InDesign IDML file of book layout opened in Scribus)
[13]:/file/402541
[14]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/5-command-a_in_the_scribus_file.png (Selecting text in Scribus)
[15]:/file/402546
[16]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/6-deleted_text_in_scribus.png (Both pages of text deleted in Scribus)
[17]:/file/402551
[18]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/7-command-z_in_scribus.png (Undo delete restored the text, but with bad formatting.)
[19]:/file/402556
[20]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/8-indesign_error_message.png (InDesign error message)
[21]:/file/402561
[22]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/9-scribus_edited_in_gedit_on_linux.png (Editing Scribus file in Gedit)
[23]:/file/402566
[24]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/10-scribus_opens_after_gedit_changes.png (Result of the Gedit edit in Scribus)
[25]:/file/402571
[26]:https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/11-large_pdf_size.png (Huge PDF file)

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# 如何用 Scribus 和 Gedit 编辑 Adobe InDesign 文件
![](https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/open-indesign-scribus-gedit-graphic.jpg?itok=OPJaGdA5)
要想成为一名优秀的平面设计师，您必须善于使用各种各样专业的工具。现在，对大多数设计师来说，最常用的工具是 Adobe 全家桶。
但是，有时候使用开源工具能够帮您摆脱困境。比如，您正在使用一台公共打印机打印一份用 Adobe InDesign 创建的文件。这时，您需要对文件做一些简单的改动（比如，改正一个错别字），但您无法立刻使用 Adobe 套件。虽然这种情况很少见，但电子杂志制作软件 [Scribus][1] 和文本编辑器 [Gedit][2] 等开源工具可以节约您的时间。
在本文中，我将向您展示如何使用 Scribus 和 Gedit 编辑 Adobe InDesign 文件。请注意，还有许多其他开源平面设计软件可以用来代替 Adobe InDesign 或者结合使用。详情请查看我的文章：[昂贵的工具（从来！）不是平面设计的唯一选择][3] 以及 [开源 Adobe InDesign 脚本][4].
在编写本文的时候，我阅读了一些关于如何使用开源软件编辑 InDesign 文件的博客，但没有找到有用的文章。我尝试了两个解决方案。一个是：创建一个 EPS 并在文本编辑器 Scribus 中将其打开为可编辑文件，但这不起作用。另一个是：从 InDesign 中创建一个 IDML（一种旧的 InDesign 文件格式）文件，并在 Scribus 中打开它。第二种方法效果更好，也是我在下文中使用的解决方法。
### 编辑个人名片
我尝试在 Scribus 中打开和编辑 InDesign 名片文件的效果很好。唯一的问题是字母间的间距有些偏移，以及 “Jeff” 中的 ‘f’ 被翻转、‘J’ 被上下颠倒。其他部分，像样式和颜色等都完好无损。
![Business card in Adobe InDesign][6]
图：在 Adobe InDesign 中编辑个人名片。
![InDesign IDML file opened in Scribus][8]
图：在 Scribus 中打开 InDesign IDML 文件。
### 删除书籍中的文本
这本书籍的更改并不顺利。书籍的正文还 OK，但当我用 Scribus 打开 InDesign 文件，目录、页脚和一些首字下沉的段落都出现问题。不过至少，它是一个可编辑的文档。其中一个问题是一些文本框中的文字变成了默认的 Arial 字体，这是因为字体样式的优先级比段落样式高。这个问题容易解决。
![Book layout in InDesign][10]
图：InDesign 中的书籍布局。
![InDesign IDML file of book layout opened in Scribus][12]
图：用 Scribus 打开 InDesign IDML 文件的书籍布局。
当我试图选择并删除一页文本的时候，发生了奇异事件。我把光标放在文本中，按下 ``Command + A``（“全选”的快捷键）。表面看起来一整页文本都高亮显示了，但事实并非如此！
![Selecting text in Scribus][14]
图：Scribus 中被选中的文本。
当我按下“删除”键，整个文本（不只是高亮的部分）都消失了。
![Both pages of text deleted in Scribus][16]
图：两页文本都被删除了。
然后，更奇异的事情发生了……我按下 ``Command + Z`` 键来撤回删除操作，文本恢复，但文本格式全乱套了。
![Undo delete restored the text, but with bad formatting.][18]
图：Command+Z (撤回删除操作) 恢复了文本，但格式乱套了。
### 用文本编辑器打开 InDesign 文件
当您用记事本（比如，Mac 中的 TextEdit）分别打开 Scribus 文件和 InDesign 文件，会发现 Scribus 文件是可读的，而 InDesign 文件全是乱码。
您可以用 TextEdit 对两者进行更改并成功保存，但得到的文件是损坏的。下图是当我用 InDesign 打开编辑后的文件时的报错。
![InDesign error message][20]
图：InDesign 的报错。
我在 Ubuntu 系统上用文本编辑器 Gedit 编辑 Scribus 时得到了更好的结果。我从命令行启动了 Gedit，然后打开并编辑 Scribus 文件，保存后，再次使用 Scribus 打开文件时，我在 Gedit 中所做的更改都成功显示在 Scribus 中。
![Editing Scribus file in Gedit][22]
图：用 Gedit 编辑 Scribus 文件。
![Result of the Gedit edit in Scribus][24]
图：用 Scribus 打开 Gedit 编辑过的文件。
当您正准备打印的时候，客户打来电话说有一个错别字需要更改，此时您不需要苦等客户爸爸发来新的文件，只需要用 Gedit 打开 Scribus 文件，改正错别字，继续打印。
### 把图像拖拽到 ID 文件中
我将 InDesign 文档另存为 IDML 文件，这样我就可以用 Scribus 往其中拖进一些 PDF 文档。似乎 Scribus 并不能像 InDesign 一样把 PDF 文档 拖拽进去。于是，我把 PDF 文档转换成 JPG 格式的图片然后导入到 Scribus 中，成功了。但这么做的结果是，将 IDML 文档转换成 PDF 格式后，文件大小非常大。
![Huge PDF file][26]
图：把 Scribus 转换成 PDF 时得到一个非常大的文件。
我不确定为什么会这样——这个坑留着以后再填吧。
您是否有使用开源软件编辑平面图形文件的技巧？如果有，请在评论中分享哦。
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via: https://opensource.com/article/18/7/adobe-indesign-open-source-tools
作者：[Jeff Macharyas][a]
选题：[lujun9972](https://github.com/lujun9972)
译者：[XiatianSummer](https://github.com/XiatianSummer)
校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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[a]: https://opensource.com/users/rikki-endsley
[1]: https://www.scribus.net/
[2]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit
[3]: https://opensource.com/life/16/8/open-source-alternatives-graphic-design
[4]: https://opensource.com/article/17/3/scripts-adobe-indesign
[5]: /file/402516
[6]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/1-business_card_designed_in_adobe_indesign_cc.png "Business card in Adobe InDesign"
[7]: /file/402521
[8]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2-indesign_.idml_file_opened_in_scribus.png "InDesign IDML file opened in Scribus"
[9]: /file/402531
[10]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/3-book_layout_in_indesign.png "Book layout in InDesign"
[11]: /file/402536
[12]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/4-indesign_.idml_file_of_book_opened_in_scribus.png "InDesign IDML file of book layout opened in Scribus"
[13]: /file/402541
[14]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/5-command-a_in_the_scribus_file.png "Selecting text in Scribus"
[15]: /file/402546
[16]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/6-deleted_text_in_scribus.png "Both pages of text deleted in Scribus"
[17]: /file/402551
[18]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/7-command-z_in_scribus.png "Undo delete restored the text, but with bad formatting."
[19]: /file/402556
[20]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/8-indesign_error_message.png "InDesign error message"
[21]: /file/402561
[22]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/9-scribus_edited_in_gedit_on_linux.png "Editing Scribus file in Gedit"
[23]: /file/402566
[24]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/10-scribus_opens_after_gedit_changes.png "Result of the Gedit edit in Scribus"
[25]: /file/402571
[26]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/uploads/11-large_pdf_size.png "Huge PDF file"