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Ingesting an InDesign file into Outfit to create a template

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This article applies to the following permission levels: 

❌ Contributor ❌ Author ✅ Admin  ✅ Designer
 

Overview

This article covers how to import/upload your pre-prepared InDesign file into Outfit and create a template. If you haven't already prepared your document, check out this article on how to prepare your InDesign file for InDesign ingest. 

 

Import the IDML into Outfit

With the InDesign package saved on your device, you can now import the InDesign file into Outfit to create a template:
 
  1. In Outfit, navigate to Templating from the main navigation bar.
  2. Click + New Template.
  3. Select ‘Import an Adobe InDesign file’. 
  4. Give the template a name and choose the exported InDesign File (.idml) file to upload.
  5. Upload the images referenced in the InDesign File, you can upload these into your asset library and then use the relink option to relink the images to the files in Outfit. Skipping this step will mean your images don't appear. 
  6. Choose or create the format of the document. Your format size will pull from the size of your InDesign file and this cannot be changed in Outfit, if you need a different size you will need to adjust your InDesign file size. When creating a format, select your export file time (PDF, PNG or JPG). For PDF you will also need to select your colour space. RGB works best for Digital, and CMYK for print. If you select CMYK you will also be able to set up your printers marks. 
  7. Click Submit.

Your template has now been created! 

We recommend ensuring it is all set up correctly and running a few tests to ensure you are happy with your template before you publish to your author users. 

 

Publishing the template

Once you are happy with your template,  it will need to be published before it can be used by teams.

To publish a template:

  1. In the Templating screen, find the template you uploaded from InDesign.
  2. Select the template/s from within the variation tab (you can select multipage to bulk update the permissions)
  3. Under Permissions, select which teams or team groups you’d like to be able to use this template, you can also select all teams if you want everyone to have access. 
  4. We also recommend setting a category for your template, for example, if you have created a social tile, add it to a social category (or create a new one). This will help your author users find what they are looking for when navigating the template library.

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