Can InDesign CS4 files be saved down to CS3

Can anyone confirm if InDesign CS4 files can be saved down to CS3.
I need to be able to share editing of InDesign files with user on different version. Seems okay to open up a version, but then can not open file back down a version? Thanks

Not an advisable workflow. You can export to INX but all new features will be lost or badly mangled. Additionally text will reflow due to the different text engines.
Your colleague should upgrade to CS4 or you should both be prepared for major headaches.
Bob

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I have InDesign CS (v 3.0.1) can newer CS4 files be saved to open in this version

I would rather not upgrade if the files can be saved to open In InDesign CS. Thanks
Also can I download the free trial of CS4 and use this to save the file to my older version?.
I received a 500mb file from a client today and would like to solve this problem myself rather than have them re save & re send the file. Thanks, Shawn New Haven, CT

Backward compatibility in Indesign works like this:
Any version of ID can open files from any version up to that release. Once saved in a newer version, files cannot be opened in older versions, with the following exception, of sorts. Beginning with CS2 (version 4) files can be exported to .inx (Interchange Format) which can be opened by the version doing the export and one version earlier. Any features used in the newer version which are not available in the older version will be lost, and text will most likley recompose and change line ending points due to differences in text engines for each version. It is possible to hack CS4 .inx to sometimes make it open in CS2, but it is not guaranteed.
Exporting to back save is not a recommended workflow and should be considered a last resort. If you know a file will need to be opened in an earlier version, you should do all work in that version for best results.

Saving InDesign CS4 files for InDesign CS2

I'm about to upgrade from CS3 to CS4 but have a client who needs to open documents I create InDesign CS2. I've been saving files for this clients in CS3's interchange (.inx) format, which has worked fine. But CS4 .inx files will only open in CS3. One work around I found was on TUAW (http://www.tuaw.com/2009/05/08/tuaw-tip-saving-indesign-cs4-files-for-indesign-cs2/), which suggests opening the .inx file in a text editor and changing the version number. The resulting file should then open in CS4. I was wondering if anyone has tried this (with or without success) or has any advice on saving CS4 docs for CS2? Thanks very much!

I'll go with option 3 since I no longer have CS2 on my machine and my
client won't be upgrading anytime soon. Thanks for the help and great
advice.
I'd never use this workflow if I couldn't test it on CS2 before sending it off to the client. Don't know what to tell you here... good luck?
Me, harsh? Is that my rep?
Oh, come on. I can say it another way:
"Peter's going to be way too nice about this... DON'T DO IT."

Can Indesign CS4 open CS2 files?

Simple question, can Indesign CS4 opeen old CS2 files? Someone told me it can't. If that's true it's a disaster.

[Jongware] - I know that, I'm not asking about CS2 opening CS4 but vice versa.
BobLevine - that's what I'm asking. I hope you're right, thanks!
It's incredibly important to me because time has come to upgrade my computer, and I have CS2 on it, but I've heard Windows 7 doesn't want to run CS2 at all, so if I upgrade to Win7 I'll have to upgrade the CS as well. And then someone told me ID4 can't open ID2 files anymore. That would render all my older work unusable.

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Occasionally, one of our users will save an InDesign CS4 file, only to have the file name change. For example, a file originally named "#kwn25501.bcbsNM.indd" was saved as "#kwn25501.bc157-1223857848."
If the user is not aware that this has happened, things can go horribly, terribly wrong in our production environment. The "numbered" file may be missing key elements, or be somehow be corrupt in some fashion. In one case, this led us to having to reprint a job because the "numbered" file was missing a photo; somehow, that file was used (and perhaps renamed after the fact) to create the final output.
We use Macs running InDesign CS4 6.0.5. Some of our Macs are running Tiger 10.4.11, while others are running Leopard 10.5.8. The problem seems to related to the Leopard machines, although that is not 100 percent certain at this point. All of these Macs are bound to Active Directory and save files to a Windows 2003 server. I know Adobe recommends against working on files over a network, but perhaps there is an explanation for this file renaming aside from network issues.
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Check to see if maybe your original filename is the problem.
You may need that particular name for a workflow reason, but some of the symbols in the middle of your filename are generally not a good idea. Especially working off of a server, file names should be ONLY alpha-numeric characters, no symbols, no periods (except for the file type) and only underscores or dashes to separate words, no spaces.
The reason is some of those symbols get picked up as machine language and all sorts of bad can happen as a result.
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Newb Question regarding Same InDesign CS4 file used on two different computers.

Probably been answered 1,000 times or is common knowledge, but I could not get it narrowed down using the search feature.
I would like to take an InDesign CS4 file ( a book) created on my imac, and work on it while away on a macbook pro with identical InDesign CS4 software. I will only be changing layout and some text, but will not be modifying anything that is a link other than re-sizing.
After doing this, will I be able to put the updated file into my imac and be ready to go, or am I playing with fire? If I might do more harm than good, I will not do it. It's just that I have a big project due and I have to be out of town for 3 days and would like to work on it if I can while I'm gone.
Thanks for any input,
Sebastian Gaeta

If you only copy the InDesign file then yes, preflight will alert you to the missing links. Just ignore it, or package the file and transfer the links, too.
Better yet, get yourself a membership to Dropbox. With Dropbox installed on both computers you can keep the entire job (up to 2 GB) in one folder and the files will sync to Dropbox’s servers, which will then sync to all computers sharing that folder. Open InDesign file on Mac 1, make changes, close file. Open file on Mac 2, make changes, close file. Open file on Mac 1 and the changes will be there. Best of all, you can go to Dropbox’s website and access a file’s history. This means you can go back to previous version of the file if you need to.
I add a folder to my Dropbox folder for any current job. When I’m done I move the files out and archive them.
Self serving link: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTUwMDUyOTI5
If you sign up using the above link I get a tiny increase in my allotted storage.

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It's more than a year ago since this issue was reported, but at this time I'd had the same problem when opening a CS4 document in CS6/CC.
I was amazed that a header, placed in capitals, looked different in CS6/CC. But at last, after several tests, i've came to the conclusion that "forced" capitals behaving different than "real" capitals. In others words: when you forcing text to capitals the kerning would be different in CS6/CC. When you place text in real capitals (Shift + text) the kerning is the same as in both InDesign versions.
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I want to open InDesign CS4 files in in InDesign CS4 but it opens with InDesign CS3. What can I do?
I also tried 'open with' by right clicking and select a default program but that didn't work for me. I also downloaded registry files from 'Windows 7 forum' to restore registry settings of 'open with', even that didn't work.
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