InDesign Cs3 needed

eq2830eq2830 Registered Users Posts: 38 Big grins
edited May 3, 2010 in Finishing School
I'm working with this design company and they only will accept indesign cs2 or 3 for formats to build the cd booklet I created....now i'm going nuts looking for this old version!!! any suggestions as to where the heck I can get this from?? Thanks!!

thanks!!
:bow erika

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  • BinaryFxBinaryFx Registered Users Posts: 707 Major grins
    edited May 2, 2010
    eq2830 wrote: »
    I'm working with this design company and they only will accept indesign cs2 or 3 for formats to build the cd booklet I created....now i'm going nuts looking for this old version!!! any suggestions as to where the heck I can get this from?? Thanks!!

    thanks!!
    bowdown.gif erika


    Erika, can't they use a hi-res PDF like 90%+ of the rest of the industry? Or do they need to do some work on the file which requires them to use native files?

    If an InDesign file is needed:

    1. Use the InDesign file menu "package" command to gather the project elements into a folder (.indd file, fonts and links). Then trash the .INDD file from this package that they can't use because they have not upgraded.

    2. Back in InDesign, use the file/export - InDesign Interchange (.INX) format and save that to the folder generated in step 1.

    Your "service provider" should then be able to open up the .INX file in the earlier version and update the links to the folder generated in step 1. Send them the entire folder that contains the .inx file, fonts and links (and text report if generated).


    Regards,

    Stephen Marsh

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  • eq2830eq2830 Registered Users Posts: 38 Big grins
    edited May 2, 2010
    BinaryFx wrote: »
    Erika, can't they use a hi-res PDF like 90%+ of the rest of the industry? Or do they need to do some work on the file which requires them to use native files?

    If an InDesign file is needed:

    1. Use the InDesign file menu "package" command to gather the project elements into a folder (.indd file, fonts and links). Then trash the .INDD file from this package that they can't use because they have not upgraded.

    2. Back in InDesign, use the file/export - InDesign Interchange (.INX) format and save that to the folder generated in step 1.

    Your "service provider" should then be able to open up the .INX file in the earlier version and update the links to the folder generated in step 1. Send them the entire folder that contains the .inx file, fonts and links (and text report if generated).


    Regards,

    Stephen Marsh

    http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
    http://prepression.blogspot.com/


    Stephen,

    I wish it were that easy...I have created the cover but unfortunately there are specific templates they want me to use and the person I'm going through is not making this easy...ughghghghghghgh!!!

    Nevertheless, thank you for your comment!!

    Kindly,

    Erika
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited May 2, 2010
    eq2830 wrote: »
    I'm working with this design company and they only will accept indesign cs2 or 3 for formats to build the cd booklet I created....now i'm going nuts looking for this old version!!! any suggestions as to where the heck I can get this from?? Thanks!!

    thanks!!
    bowdown.gif erika

    Which version do you have? Sounds like you have something newer, which means you can just save a CS3-compatible file and be done with it. Or is there some other kink preventing that?

    oopsie, Indesign doesn't seem to support saving in backwards compatible formats (can't see why but there you are..). What you might be able to do is export to INX, the Indesign interchange format and send that. The design house may need a plug-in to import it, but that could work.
    Creativity's hard.

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  • eq2830eq2830 Registered Users Posts: 38 Big grins
    edited May 3, 2010
    pyry wrote: »
    Which version do you have? Sounds like you have something newer, which means you can just save a CS3-compatible file and be done with it. Or is there some other kink preventing that?

    oopsie, Indesign doesn't seem to support saving in backwards compatible formats (can't see why but there you are..). What you might be able to do is export to INX, the Indesign interchange format and send that. The design house may need a plug-in to import it, but that could work.

    i do not have in design at all...i have photoshop cs3 and even downloaded indesign cs5 as a trial but i cannot see the templates this company is providing...AND to make matters worse, i could also use quark 6 - again, very old, called quark directly to see if they could sell it to me...my jaw dropped when they told me that they would sell it to me for the EXACT price as the new quark 8!! i asked her if she was serious. i've been waiting for this print company to call me back to see if they would help me and they have not responded...ughhhhhhh....
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2010
    eq2830 wrote: »
    i do not have in design at all...i have photoshop cs3 and even downloaded indesign cs5 as a trial but i cannot see the templates this company is providing...AND to make matters worse, i could also use quark 6 - again, very old, called quark directly to see if they could sell it to me...my jaw dropped when they told me that they would sell it to me for the EXACT price as the new quark 8!! i asked her if she was serious. i've been waiting for this print company to call me back to see if they would help me and they have not responded...ughhhhhhh....

    They might be able to take each page as images and build the final booklet for you.
    Creativity's hard.

    http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
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