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• • November 24, 2010 at 8:17 am #57874
    Roland

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    I have a hobbyist client who's gotten herself into a huge mess: a 7 page document, no layers, no master pages used, nothing aligned properly (for example; the logo “jumps around” when flipping pages). So I've fixed the document and sent it back only to discover she's still on CS3 while I'm on CS5 with no older versions installed.

    Is there anyone here whom I can send a 7-page, 1MB INDD file to and get it returned in a CS3-compatible version?

  • November 24, 2010 at 1:57 pm #57884
    Bob Levine

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    Roland, send it to me and I'll get it back to INX for you.

    Bob (bob AT theindesignguy DOT com)

  • November 25, 2010 at 12:59 am #57896
    Roland

    Member

    Thanks, just sent it from my Gmail.

    It probably won't help, but I'm going to submit downsaving as a feature request. It's nuts that we need to have multiple versions installed or ask others for help in downsaving.

  • November 25, 2010 at 5:41 am #57899
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Another solution would perhaps be a patch that allows CS3 to open IDML files?

  • November 25, 2010 at 9:15 am #57903
    Roland

    Member

    If IDML is here to stay, that'd work too as it could then stay in use even with CS6 and later.

    Bob helped me out this time though. Man I love this site and its forums :)

  • November 25, 2010 at 10:25 am #57904
    Bob Levine

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    @Eugene, this question has been asked before…how much would you be willing to pay for such a feature? What would your expectations be for this feature?

  • November 25, 2010 at 2:29 pm #57907
    Anonymous

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    I don't see why it would have to be paid for. I already pay nearly double what the US pay for the same software. And I'm being asked do I want to pay more? Should I pay for any feature that is requested? Like the improvement of footnotes? Should I have to pay for better paragraph numbering? Or any feature that is new or any of the updates that come out?

    Saving back more than one version is certainly an issue. It's a hot topic for sure, but getting it back more than one version has to become a reality soon. What they do to get it back and how they go about it is up to them. This is asked on Adobe forums and in the adobe help file comments on a regular basis. So if there's a demand for a feature why not give the people what they want?

    Look at it this way – sooner or later CS6 will be here. And you will have people, new to InDesign buying this latest software. Now they have to go and do business with other companies. Some on Cs3 some on CS4 and some on CS5, is it fair that they will only be able to only save back one version? Or that there isn't an update for CS3 and Cs4 to open IDML files created in CS6? Where is the option to even buy CS3 CS4 and CS5 for the upgrade price if you purchase CS6? Will there be one? You can't do that now. You can't even get a demo of CS4 so you can save CS5 to Cs4 to CS3.

    All it has to say is “Warning: Layout may be altered as some features are not supported in this version of InDesign”.

    We can argue things about features and what do with them until we're blue in the face. Frankly, I just want to be able to save back more than one version. It's not really my concern how it is accomplished. It's just something that needs to be addressed.

  • November 25, 2010 at 5:17 pm #57908
    Bob Levine

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    Eugene, my only point is that Adobe isn't going to do it, and from I what I read from third parties, it's just not as simple as some folks are making it out to be. Hopefully, the IDML format turns out to be more flexible than the INX format going forward. Only time will tell.

  • November 26, 2010 at 2:29 am #57910
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I hope so too.

    I'm not advocating it's simple or easy. I understand that everyone, including scripters, third party, and Adobe concede that it's not easy to do. But it should definitely something that should be considered going forward when developing the software.

    I was only suggesting that perhaps instead of allowing CS5 or later versions save back more than one version, I was hoping that perhaps it might be an idea that CS3 was given the ability to open IDML files? It was just an idea.

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