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Alright, so what I have here is I have a file I got in from a customer,
to determine which version
of InDesign that file is and
is the file integrity good, because it could be a bad file.
So, here, I just want to show you how I'm getting it from the same
USB drive. I'm going to get this file here, modified 11:14, size 19.3
megabytes same file. I'm going to first put it here on this Mac Book Pro,
a more modern machine I use, with more modern applications for desktop
publishing of
InDesign CC, InDesign CS6,
Quark 9, Quark 10, all that kind of stuff.
Alright, so now, I have the file here. Now, what I'm going to do...
We see the file here.
What you can do on a Macintosh is, very simply, you
just click once on the file and you do a Command-I,
from Isaac. And what you get is this,
very handy, for
all intents and purposes,
an accurate way to see information about this file.
Well, we see it was created 11:14, like we just saw.
We see the size and we see the kind,
an InDesign CC document. So, that's rather interesting,
because what you're going to see in a moment,
if I take the same exact file
on another machine, it's going to tell
me the kind is an InDesign something else
version file. There's a reason for that,
but it's one of the things that confuses
many people out in the market is
what version of inDesign file do I have here?
Can I open it? Can I use it?
And Markzware's working on these problems for you.
So, anyway, we see on this machine, it's an InDesign CC file
and that's that. Now, what I'm going to do now is for the
customer, and I'm going to do that with FlightCheck, by dragging
and dropping the file
onto FlightCheck, down here on my Dock.
FlightCheck will start up
and FlightCheck will tell me which version
of the file this really is. Now, you see, I have
InDesign. (FlightCheck eagle screeches)...
You see FlightCheck says it's done with preflighting
and checking the file for inventory. Also, very important.
It doesn't necessarily have to be
a problem, just tell us what's in the file. On this machine, I have CC and CS6,
and that's why when we do a Command-I, you get that InDesign CC.
Now, besides all the results here, which
any preflighter would love to use,
we're going to skip right on over to the main window.
And in particular, this file info.
And what we'll see right away is that it's a version
8 file of InDesign, meaning,
as actually the customer's file name implies,
it is a CS6 file. And it's a little bit confusing for some folks,
because there's CS6, but it's version 8.
Why isn't CS6 version 6 dot something? Well, you can just do a quick
Google search and you'll see that
version 8.x.x
is a CS6 type of file.
Okay? CS9 would be CC.
InDesign versioning chart should show up,
yeah, right here, from Markzware.
Downsave InDesign File: How to Open CS6 File in CS3.
And this can apply also to CC and all the other versions, as well.
And what you see there is you get a very handy chart.
How to Down Save InDesign File.
But what's important in this chart is that you can very quickly see
that version 8 of InDesign is a CS6 and version 7.5
is version CS5.5 and version 7 is CS5,
and version 6 is CS4, and version 5 is CS3. Version 4 is CS2.
Kind of confusing. So, this kind of chart can help you.
And we should update this to include CC.
The main thing that I wanted to highlight here is
how this file on this modern machine shows up as CC,
even though it's actually a CS6, as we just saw on FlightCheck.
Now, let's go over to my other machine, my older machine,
my workhorse, as I call it, and see what that
with that Mac tells us. Alright, so now I'm down here on my older
Mac Book Pro. Now, what I'm going to do is take that
same exact file, which is here, and I'm going to put it in my hard drive.
Add it there, but we'll just replace
the file. I have a lot of other test files.
If I do a Command-I, well, look at that!
It says it's an InDesign CS5 document.
Now, it is 11:14 a.m., same, and the same size,
but, because on this machine, CS5 is my main InDesign
application for converting files for customers and fixing bad InDesign files,
yeah, that's what you get. So, it's very confusing.
It's actually a CS6 file. On the other machine, it says it's CC,
and on this machine, it says it's CS5. That's why I need Markzware's FlightCheck,
another Markzware technology that'll be forthcoming to help you convert these files,
help you understand what files you're dealing with.
So, just to highlight exactly what
I mean here in CS5 and when I
I try to open up that file... Let me just double click it.
And InDesign will come back in, unfortunately,
like many of you know, will tell us this. Well, it's not really a missing plugin.
Well, yes, technically it is, but
you know designers are now freaking out, publishers, printers freak out, and they
contact
Markzware, if they find us, and we can help them, so that's no problem.
We can down save the files for you.
We have a conversion service link below, which we can do
this for you. But, in any event, in the meantime, you're freaking out
and you get all these different error messages that just keep coming across and
the file just will not open.
Now, what is rather funky, you can take that same file,
open it in CS6 or CC, export as .idml,
and it will open in CS5, and more or less, be perfectly OK.
You can get some things which will disappear or shift you've got to
be careful with, but exporting to IDML
is necessary. Otherwise, you get this: You just cannot open file.
That's the problem. Markzware also has a file conversion service,
which I'll give you more information on, or we can down save InDesign files for you.
Markzware offers many plugins and extensions to help you convert files from Quark to InDesign,
from InDesign to Quark, from PDF to InDesign, pretty much you name it.
Check out markzware.com today, and we hope this tip has helped you.
Thank you. David Dilling from Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!