i have indesign cs3 on my computer. my supervisor has indesign cs2. last night i’d saved a program cover i’d designed and emailed it to her, per her request. this morning she came to me saying she couldn’t open it. that’s odd, i replied; what error message is it giving you? she told me it was saying she didn’t have the correct version of indesign.
this did seem odd, that indesign wouldn’t allow easy backwards compatibility to a file made with a once removed version of itself. i googled the problem, and found this page from adobe. following the instructions, rather than saving the file, i exported it instead, as an .idx document. emailed it to her, and she was able to open it up right away, no problem.
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i had the same problem when trying to open an indesign menu layout in class today. i have cs3 at home and use cs2 at school, i couldn’t figure out why either since illustrator allowed easy conversion. thanks for the tip.
Hey,
Really i had the same problem when i had to publish a magazine.
Thank you for the tip man… you saved my school year :)
Hi there,
BUT….what if I have InDesign cs2 and whish to open a cs3 document.
Then I cant really make an export!
Any “import” advice or downloads?
…peter
in cs3 you gotta save like this:
file > export > format: indesign interchange
this is what indesign cs3 says (help function)
Save backwards to previous InDesign versions
To open an InDesign CS3 document in InDesign CS2, you must install the appropriate plug-ins in the previous version of InDesign and export the InDesign CS3 document to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format.
You can obtain the compatibility plug-ins for InDesign CS2 by choosing Help > Updates and following the prompts. You can also obtain them from the Adobe website: Choose Support > Updates, and go to the InDesign Downloads page.
Be aware that content created using features specific to InDesign CS3 might be modified or omitted when you open the document in a InDesign CS2.
Choose File > Export.
From the File Type (Windows) or Formats (Mac OS) menu, choose InDesign Interchange.
Click Save.
You can open the .inx file in InDesign CS2 to convert it to an untitled InDesign document.