From AI to InDesign in 30 seconds.AI design in. Editable InDesign out.

Yes — that's exactly what idmly does. Drop a self-contained .html design and get back a native .idml: editable text frames, named styles, and charts as real vector objects. Not a flattened PDF. Full guide and method comparison →

Yes — that's exactly what it's for. AI tools hand you an HTML design, and idmly converts that into a native, editable .idml: real text frames, named styles, charts as editable vectors. It doesn't matter which AI tool produced the HTML. Full guide →

No — they're complementary. MCP connectors (Sidekick, Duet, Adobe's Claude connector) let an AI control InDesign live. idmly does the opposite job: it takes the finished HTML design your AI already made and converts it into an editable .idml file. Many people use both — generate in Claude, convert with idmly, then refine in InDesign.

All of them. idmly reads the rendered browser layout, not the tool that made it, so it converts the HTML output of Claude, ChatGPT, v0, Lovable, Bolt, Gemini, Figma Make, and plain hand-written HTML alike. If it saves as a self-contained .html that opens in a browser, it converts.

Yes. Export your design as a self-contained HTML file from any tool, then convert it — idmly reads the rendered browser layout, so the tool that made the HTML doesn't matter.

A self-contained .html file — the kind AI tools hand you when they design a report, deck, or one-pager. If it opens in your browser and looks like your design, it's ready to convert.

A native .idml that opens straight in Adobe InDesign: real text frames, named paragraph and character styles, charts and tables as editable objects, images placed and linked. If your design has images, it arrives as a zip — keep the Links folder next to the .idml. The file also opens in Affinity Publisher.

No. There's no PDF anywhere in the chain — idmly builds the InDesign file directly. That's the whole point: frames you can reflow, styles you can restyle, charts you can recolour. A PDF import gives you outlines and regret.

Yes — any of them. idmly renders your file in a real browser and reads the computed layout; it never parses your CSS. Tailwind (CDN script or compiled styles), Bootstrap, plain CSS — if Chrome can render it, it converts.

Yes — and that's the promise that matters most. Your file is converted, then deleted: no storage, no training, and no AI model ever reads it (the conversion is deterministic engineering, not a model). We run no third-party analytics or advertising pixels in your browser — the only third-party content we load is our typefaces (Google Fonts). We do measure our own ads: if you arrive from one, our server alone confirms that a single conversion happened — never your file, and only a hashed, unreadable form of your email. Full detail in the privacy policy.