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Adobe restricting designers to work productively - almaink

You have to update the ".inx" (InDesign Interchange) extension in CS1 and CS2 for it to work. Should be able to do that from the applications under help in the file menu.

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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 08:44 AM PDT


Adobe sometimes is a real genius in making things complicated - mediaVinci

okay ... pouuh ... I have found a posting on a french forum where someone else describes a similar problem. The user needs to convert an InDesign CS3 file to a CS1 file because his client is still working with Adobe InDesign CS1.

http://forumde.lalogotheque.com/index.php?showtopic=14508

Converting files from InDesign version CS3 to CS1 is not possible. The user downloaded a demo version of Adobe InDesign CS2 in order to convert the file. (Which is complicated enough on my opinion.)

Step 1.
Export from InDesign CS3 as an ".INX" file.

Step 2.
Re-importing the ".INX" file in Adobe InDesign CS2.

Step 3.
Re-exporting the ".INX" file from Adobe InDesign CS2.

Step 4.
Opening the file in Adobe InDesign CS1 only works with the April(!) upadate of Adobe InDesign 3.0.1.

If you don't have Adobe InDesign CS2 installed on your computer and you need to convert a CS3 file into a CS1 file. Bad luck for you. Users can download a trial version of InDesign CS2 from Adobe's website.

Apparently, Adobe released 3 updates in total which have all the same version number. Adobe CS 3.0.1 Update.

It is important for Adobe InDesign users to get the last and third update released by Adobe on April 2005.

I mean, is there a way to make the daily life of graphic-designers more complicated? And I thought software was invented and developed to work for me and not the other way round.

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Zero stars for Adobe's version handling.

graphically & sincerely,

Marc Klein
mediaVinci - The art of invention

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Monday, October 22 2007 @ 12:35 PM PDT