IDPK Converter

Extract text from InDesign packages (IDPK)


Drop or upload your .IDPK file
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How to extract text from your IDPK file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IDPK file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert IDPK to another file type

To convert IDPK packages to another format, you need Adobe InDesign or other Web software.

Convert a file to IDPK

To convert other file formats to the "InDesign GoLive Package" file type, you need software like Adobe InDesign or a similar tool.


About IDPK files

The .IDPK file is an Adobe InDesign Package for GoLive file. In the mid-2000s, Adobe created this format to let print designers export Adobe InDesign layouts into Adobe GoLive, an obsolete web authoring tool. It stores page structures, text snippets, and embedded images. Originally created by Adobe InDesign CS2 and read by Adobe GoLive CS2. You must convert or extract .IDPK files because Adobe discontinued GoLive in 2008. You cannot open an .IDPK file in modern web browsers, code editors, or even modern versions of Adobe InDesign. The format is closed, proprietary, and heavily outdated. The best approach is to extract the contents to standard formats like ZIP, XML, or TXT. You will lose the original layout integration, but you will recover the raw text and image assets. This file format is difficult to open or convert. Standard online converters fail because it is an undocumented legacy format. Often only the original legacy software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your IDPK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert IDPK file to INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7, PM8, PM9, PM10, PM11, OMP or P65, you can use Adobe InDesign or similar software from the "Web Asset Packaging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to IDPK, try Adobe InDesign or another comparable tool in the "Web Asset Packaging" category.



The IDPK Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our IDPK converter.