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Expert: InDesign Pro - 8/30/2009


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I have received files form InDesign CS 2.0 and can't open them in CS 3.01. What may I be doing wrong? The error I get is that I may need to upgrade to the later version, which is obviously is not correct.

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Hi Alex, thanks for the question.

I don't recall ever having an error like that when opening older files. How do you know for certain that they are InDesign CS2 files and not CS4 files?

I have two ideas that might help. You can either ask the person that sent them to you to export them as InDesign INX files; or, if that doesn't work, you can try sending them to me and I can try opening them in CS4.

Hope this helps, please send a followup if it doesn't work. Thanks.

Scott

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