Bridgetalk InDesign CS3 to Illustrator CS5?

Question

Is it possible to have these two programs communicate? Or will I have to use strictly the CS3 programs or CS5 programs? I simply want to click on a link in InDesign and have it open in Illustrator so I can edit it. Everything I've read hasn't really touched on interoperabilty of Bridgetalk between CS versions. Thanks.
Nate

Answer 1

Nate, Im at home now where my little mac has CS2 & CS5… This opened a selected PDF in AI CS5 from ID CS2 ( if it was already running )… If AI CS5 was not running bridgetalk did NOT launch it like I would normally expect… The message just queues until I launch it… Strange? I tested with both versions of AI running too and it was OK. I had the PDF selected with the direct selection tool…
#target indesign
indesignMain();
function indesignMain() {
          if ( app.documents.length == 0 ) { return; }
          var doc, pdfPath, sel, script;
          doc = app.activeDocument, sel = doc.selection;
          if ( sel.length == 1 ) {
                    pdfPath = decodeURI( sel[0].itemLink.filePath );
                    script = illustratorEditPDF;
                    script += '\rillustratorEditPDF("' + pdfPath + '");';
                    btMessaging( 'illustrator-15.0', script );
          }else{
                    alert( 'Have 1 item selected?' );
function btMessaging( targetApp, script ) {
          var bt = new BridgeTalk();
          bt.target = targetApp;
          bt.body = script;
          //bt.onResult = function( inBT ) {};
          //bt.onError = function( inBT ) {};
          bt.send( 5 );
function illustratorEditPDF( pdf ) {
          var doc, uIL;
          uIL = app.userInteractionLevel;
          app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
          app.preferences.PDFFileOptions.pDFCropToBox = PDFBoxType.PDFMEDIABOX;
          app.preferences.PDFFileOptions.pageToOpen = 1;
          doc = app.open( File( pdf ), DocumentColorSpace.CMYK );
          app.userInteractionLevel = uIL;