Can i open idml in cs3

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Which File Format? Decorative Fonts. Sans Serif Fonts. Script Fonts. We can open CS3 in CS6. Down save InDesign; more like an up Save! Okay, so here we are on another machine with InDesign CS3. Can we down save InDesign files like this?

Adobe does not provide those. Otherwise, it would slow down the update or the upgrade process. Fair enough, on one hand. On the other, yeah, people need to use and work in workflows with various file format versions from CS6 to CS2.

And why not? A lot of people come in with this message and send us bad files. The file is corrupt. If you get an Error Code 5, or InDesign is crashing all the time when you open a particular document… Error Code 4, Error Code 3, these sorts of things are bad files. There are some troubleshooting techniques that we showed in another video. Can you fix it? And that you can do with our service, or with yourself ,or with somebody who has various versions of Adobe InDesign.

What happens if we…? A similar message. You need to make it IDML. We have to take a couple steps, and those steps start here by opening a file. You need to go to CS5 or CS5. A similar message, different, you know, prettier, screen or interface.

Let me show you that here real quick. We also have the Markzware menu item up there, not needed in this case, but there are our products. Show those off, of course. Still starting up. Yeah, the older the machine, the slower the software; or is it the older the software, the slower the machine. In any event, a combination of both. So, CS6 exported as. Will it open? I hear a lot of churning of my RAM. Well, yeah, we get some preflight, preliminary information here.

Right there, we have the file. I just need to have the fonts, which I do have the fonts, I just need to get the image.

But now we can open up this file. And we could do the same in CS5. We could export as a. Lost its file name. From CS6 now to CS5. Will that down save? Well, the tension is mounting here. So, there it is. Well, look at that.

Cannot open. So, how do we get a CS6 file, now exported as a CS5, as a. Well, you need CS4. The lower you go, the more specific the down saving is. So that is, in a nutshell, how it works, how you can get CS6 into CS3. INX is better suited for situations where you need to clean up some minor corruption in a document especially after opening a QX or PM file, for example.

But CS4 will still not be able to handle CS5 features whatever those will be. How could it? For example, when you look at an image with some text wrap applied it may look OK, but as soon as you click on it or move it, the values go back to 0. But my first Oops was surely with table styles. There goes all the formatting!

This is a difficult issue, of course Adobe want to give us greater and greater features, but the hassle saving backwards is quite a time consumer…. Currently on of my biggest clients are still on CS1 and saving down to that format is a nightmare! David, have you ever had a file that would not export to INX? I ran into this problem for the first time yesterday. I use INX all the time if I suspect a file is getting a little funky, but I have never had one fail to export. My ID CS2 file is apparently corrupt.

I searched this site for past blog posts, along with the Adobe forums looking for a solution. Casey, When you open the CS2 file, can you then do a save as…? One of the other things you might try is to open the file, then create a new file to the same dimensions.

In the corrupt file go to the pages panel and select all the pages and right click cmd click on mac and choose Move Pages. From the drop down menu choose to Move to the new document. That might help. Good suggestion. If it works, I will post back here. Bob: Yeap. I just hope i remember what ID CS3 could and could not do…. Thanks a lot for all the advice and help. However, I just put together a 32 page program for a music festival that has to be printed with one of our local newspapers.

I always bring my file down to the newspaper office and work with their graphics person each year. I discovered the reason why they are still at CS2- the TV paper job has a plug-in that is only good for CS2 and they use that weekly for the TV insert. And that is probably true nation-wide. Maybe Adobe should look into this….

We even got some tech from Adobe try to help us out and in the end our boss told them that we were going to downgrade the machines back to CS3.

Our 3 printers got the same problem and followed the example of my boss. Or, if they do, clients have every right to go find a printer that will accept the files. Similarly, I recently did some training for a company who told me their printer was still very wary of InDesign files at all, and that they preferred QuarkXPress files.

Yes, there are still a lot of those folks out there. That is their prerogative, but you bet I told my client they should dump that printer.

Eugene: I attempted to use your suggestion to move pages to fix my corrupt file. I could only move pages within the document. So, I had to revert to copy and paste to a new document to get everything I needed. There is a reason Adobe doesn? Save As? Yes, but not necessarily. I have to say that this is a bunch of BS.

Everyone always complains about Microsoft this and that, and how wonderful everybody else is, including Adobe. I am so pissed right now. After opening the. According to Adobe they are working on that. I would contact support for reporting that problem. To Roberto M, Just came across this website that mentions a possible work around for opening CS4 inx files in CS2 by changing a bit of code that makes the file recognizable to CS2.

Lisa: Thanks for the note, but of course that article is just referencing the trick that Mike Rankin first published here.

Many of my clients have not upgraded to CS4 even though I have. Graphic design is about the final product not the software version it was created with. Adobe should make sure that inx files do not reflow when saved to CS3. I supposed we could always go back to using Quark Xpress.

Adobe only finds workarounds for us sometimes after they release their software. This goes back before InDesign even came out. And what we want for hi res is not what so many customers think hi res is I could go on for paragraphs for what that is!

Keeping up with the latest software is an expensive and touchy issue in this economy. So taking it out on your printer is not the answer. Trying to get those all to work is quite stressful at times. The customer saw proofs with the problem and OKd them. My issue is slightly different than the others in that I work in the localization industry and exporting INX is required as an interchange format from InDesign to the Translation tools similar to what MIF does for FrameMaker.

This is not an override — the paragraph styles are now set to italic. The work around is to import all of the styles from the original IND document. However, it is unclear to me how a paragraph style could be updated like this automatically? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tamara: It is relatively likely that the translation software that is reading and then writing the INX files is introducing an error into the file. I think because I made the page numbers in the file starting over in the document, the file will no longer open long enough to make the change to automatic numbering.

Uh, yeah, trying save a cs5 file into cs3 using your interchange format is a problem. John, so far every version of CS was only able to down-save one version down. Your complaint has echoed through the decade, with each new version ….

I was having the same issues. I could not open files from ID4 to ID2. After doing research online I found the solution, it works every time you can even open them in ID1 if necessary. As I found out the hard way today. Way to Quark it up, Adobe. And Adobe, clever lads and lasses they are, inserted a version number in the file. Adobe CS2 looks at the version number, sees that the INX file is targeted for CS3, and pops up an error message without even trying to open the file.

Replace line number 2 which looks like this :. Easy peasy.