TikiWiki to ICML Converter
FileFlip converts TikiWiki to ICML entirely inside your browser, using Pandoc compiled to WebAssembly. The file is never uploaded to a server: it is read off your disk, converted on your own machine, and saved back by the browser. That means no file-size limit, no queue and no account.
How do I convert a TikiWiki file to ICML?#
- Drop your TikiWiki file onto the converter at the top of this page, or click it to pick one from your computer. You can add as many as you like.
- Leave the target set to ICML and the conversion starts on its own. FileFlip downloads 65.8 MB of WebAssembly the first time and nothing after that, then runs Pandoc on your own machine.
- Save the ICML file. Your browser writes it straight to your downloads folder, because there was never a server holding it.
Does converting TikiWiki to ICML lose quality?#
Not in the sense of pixels or samples. Converting TikiWiki to ICML rebuilds the file in ICML's own model rather than re-encoding it, so everything ICML can represent comes through exactly and anything it cannot has to be dropped. Expect the words to come through exactly and the page breaks to move.
Is it safe to convert TikiWiki files online?#
Yes, because nothing is uploaded. FileFlip converts TikiWiki files inside the browser tab you already have open, using WebAssembly builds of the same engines a desktop converter would install. Your file is read from your own disk into the page's memory, and no request carrying it is ever made.
You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's network panel, run a conversion, and you will see the engine come down and your file go nowhere. There is no upload, no server-side copy, no retention window, and no account tied to what you converted.
How FileFlip works lists every engine, its version and its download size, and shows how to check for yourself that nothing leaves your machine.
What TikiWiki to ICML actually does to the file#
Converting TikiWiki to ICML runs on Pandoc, downloads 65.8 MB of WebAssembly the first time and nothing after that, rebuilds the file in the target's own model, keeps selectable text and page layout.
| Engine | Pandoc |
|---|---|
| Conversion path | One step: TikiWiki → ICML |
| Downloaded to your browser | 65.8 MB, once, then cached by your browser |
| Quality | Rebuilt in the target's model |
| You get back | One file |
| Where it runs | In a background worker, so the page stays responsive |
What survives the conversion
| What is in the file | This conversion | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Selectable text | Kept | Carried through into the converted file. |
| Page layout | Kept | Carried through into the converted file. |
What is a TikiWiki file?#
A TikiWiki file holds a page written in the wiki markup of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, an open-source wiki and content-management platform that uses exclamation marks for headings and doubled punctuation for most inline formatting.
Keep a page as Tiki markup while it's edited and served from a Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware installation.
Convert Tiki markup to Markdown or HTML when its content needs to move to a platform that isn't Tiki.
What is an ICML file?#
An ICML file is a single XML document holding one InDesign story's text and its paragraph and character style names, with no page geometry, meant to be opened in Adobe InCopy or imported into an existing InDesign layout rather than viewed on its own.
Use ICML to move styled text into an InDesign layout from a source that can generate structured XML, keeping paragraph and character styles intact instead of retyping the copy.
Convert content out of ICML once it leaves the InDesign workflow, since almost nothing outside Adobe's own applications reads it.
TikiWiki to ICML questions people ask#
What is a .tikiwiki file?
A .tikiwiki file holds a page's worth of Tiki markup, the wiki syntax used by Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Tiki stores pages in a database rather than as loose files, so this extension appears when a page has been exported or converted rather than pulled straight from a Tiki install.
Is Tiki Wiki still maintained?
Yes. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is under active development by a community of contributors and translators, and the project ships a new major version roughly every eight months.
How is Tiki markup different from MediaWiki markup?
Tiki markup uses exclamation marks for headings and doubled punctuation, __bold__, ''italic'', for most formatting, where MediaWiki uses equals signs for headings and asterisks or apostrophes instead. The two syntaxes aren't interchangeable; a page written for one won't render correctly in the other.
What application opens an ICML file?
Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy are effectively the only applications that open ICML files, since the format exists specifically to move a story's styled text between the two. There is no independent viewer for it outside Adobe's publishing tools.