Not to be outdone by the folks in Cupertino and the problems with Leopard, it looks like our friends in Redmond may have broken a feature in InDesign CS2 with the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, the capability to open Pagemaker files.
After reading a few reports of problems in the User to User forums, I turned on my XP SP3 laptop and tried opening a few Pagemaker documents with CS2. I was greeted with the same error message over and over again:
The Pagemaker document is damaged and cannot be recovered.
There was no problem opening the same file with CS3 under XP or Vista.
This was always a problem with CS2 under Vista and apparently some of the code made its way into Windows XP with the most recent service pack. Obviously, this isn’t a major issue (or a minor one for that matter) for most users, but for anyone still on CS2 that has a need to convert Pagemaker files, SP3 is going to be a dealbreaker.
If you’ve already installed the service pack and must remain on CS2 you’ll need to roll back to SP2.
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on June 5, 2008
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