One issue that comes up repeatedly when I speak with advisers and students during workshops is how to save what they work on in, say InDesign CS4, to what they have at school (perhaps CS3). In the past, I sadly had to say, "Well, print out a copy and you can quickly recreate."
But there is a way, I recently discovered, thanks to Tracy Sena on the JEA listserv, who responded to a post asking how to save from CS5 down to CS4. The short answer:
You have to use File>Export and choose InDesign Markup Language (IDML) -- there are several choices under "Save as type" -- and then open that file in CS4.
You might find that the INX (Adobe CS3 interchange) works best for saving "down" from CS4 to CS3.
The good news is that you can always open an older version of InDesign in the newer. The documents just convert and open as "Untitled."
My advice is to simply be aware that moving "down" a version almost always means something gets lost. After all, new versions comes with new options and upgraded code. We simply can't expect a cool effect from CS5 to suddenly work in CS3.
But for those who have students and advisers with different versions on their personal laptops (newer or older), compared to what they have at school, you can at least transfer the bulk of your InDesign work from computer to computer.
The best solution, of course, is to have the school buy some sort of site license that includes a number of laptops in the license, and then have users who need to work on InDesign at home get that newest version installed.
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