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by skram 4650 days ago
This looks great. I do layout design for an old-school technology magazine, http://2600.com/. We've been using PageMaker/inDesign for decades. As a fan of LucidCharts, I'm looking forward to checking this new product of yours out.

Being able to import so we can retain some of the style our readers have become acustomed to would be AWESOME but I'm betting you all looked into inDesign's format and decided to pass that up?
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dmgrow 4650 days ago
Thanks for the compliments, and great question! For launch, we have not delved deeply into the bowels of InDesign's format so it's not definitively off the table -- just a prioritization of resources for now.

With Lucidchart, we are the only diagramming app that imports Microsoft Visio's native file format...so it's not unprecedented for us to tackle these types of things.

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skram 4650 days ago
A "compromise" might be allowing uploading of a PDF doc and allow the user to specify text boxes, etc. and effectively convert the PDF into a LucidPress doc that can be used from then on.

Just an idea. Thanks for listening

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