Compatibility of InDesign CS4 with CS3 or CS5

My situation is this: I'm working in InDesign CS4 at the moment and need someone else to work on the same files on a separate machine.
The separate machine MAY have CS3 installed or they may need to buy a new copy of InDesign, in which case I imagine they would end up buying CS5. (Or is it still possible to buy CS4 products??)
My question is this: if they buy CS5, I imagine they will have no problems opening the files I work on, but will I have problems when I open the files they have saved? Will I be able to?
Simlarly: If they have CS3, will they be able to open the files I work on?
In other words: what is the best solution for our situation short of me having to upgrade to CS5?
Thanks for any light you can shed.

The best solution is you should all be working in the same version. If this is a short-term project you may be able to work with a trial version (for earlier versions see http://forums.adobe.com/message/2729885#2729885 for a link to a blog posting with directions and direct download links).
If that won't work, be sure nobody is using any features in the newer version that are not supported in the older version and be preapred for text to reflow (which won't happen inthe newer version opening an older file until you start to edit). CS4 to CS3 requires export to .inx from CS4 and CS3 must be patched to 5.0.4. CS5 to CS4 requires export to .idml from CS5, and CS4 should be patched to 6.0.5.
Note that trying to callborate using two versions is pretty much a recipe for trouble.

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    http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6c639/
    I'm starting this as a new topic to focus on the cases where InDesign CS4 users are able to launch and use the product, but are missing resources such as the following types of presets: Workspaces, Keyboard Shortcut Sets, and Swatch Libraries.
    All reports of this issue appear to be related to user permissions. For these resources to to be accessed you must be running InDesign CS4 with an account that has read/write access to the following folder, including it's subfolders and all of their content:
    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets
    If you have a setup where you are running into problems getting resources from this folder to appear in InDesign CS4, and you believe your user account has read/write permissions to all of it's contents, please let me know as I'd like to work with you to find a solution.

    The complete fix from start to finish for my problem (InDesign CS4 launching without toolbars or keyboard shortcuts when logged on without Administrator priviliges) is below.  It's actually quite simple once you know how... The problem is just getting all of the information in the same place.  Hopefully it will help others having the same problem.
    1.        Install CS4 from the 2 installation CDs.  Allow a couple of hours from start to finish.
    2.        Log on with an Administrator account:
    a.        Navigate to “C:\Program Files\Adobe\”. 
    b.        Right-click on the folder named “Adobe InDesign CS4”
    c.        Click Properties 
    d.        Click on the Security tab
    e.        Change permissions for Users to Full Control 
    f.         Click on the Advanced button and ensure that there is a check in both of the boxes (inherit and replace permissions). 
    g.        Click Apply to reflow the permissions
    h.        Click OK twice. 
    3.        Navigate to the following locations and rename each of the EN_UK folders to EN_US:
    a.        C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets\InDesign Workspaces\
    b.        C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets\Page Sizes\
    c.        C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets\Start Page\
    d.        C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets\InDesign Shortcut Sets\
    4.        With a user account, launch Adobe InDesign CS4 and immediately hold down Shift, Control and Alt together.  Click Yes to delete the InDesign Preference files.

  • Image text is missing in InDesign CS4

    Hi everybody,
    I am using InDesign CS4 with MAC OS X 10.5.8. I encountered a problem that the Text is missing in the eps image, when imported on InDesign document. Refer below screenshot.
    I have used “Times New Roman” Type1 font in InDesign document. And for images I have used the same “Times New Roman” as OTF font. Refer below screenshots.
    Type 1 fonts used in InDesign:
    Open Type Font used in Images:
    Here, I caught one more finding. If I save the image as Adobe Postscript as “Language Level 2”, I don’t have any text missing issue in InDesign document. But, if I save the image as “Language Level 3”, I found this missing text issue in the document. Refer below screenshots.
    Could anyone hlep me what the exact issue. Any help is much appreciated!!

    Yes Bob. This new thread was raised by me to explain the issue in detail.
    Further to my analysis, I found that when I load the job fonts in “Applications/Adobe InDesign CS5/Fonts”, we got this text missing issue. And the same job fonts, when I load in “Users/<user_name>/Library/Fonts”, it showing correct.
    Any thoughts?

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