Can you open Photoshop files in InDesign?

Is it possible to open a file which is created by Indesign ?

Hello.
I'm not at my CS6 suite right now. But I would guess PS could not open an ID file  in an editable way. You can try saving your ID project out as a PDF, then Photoshop should be able to open it rasterized (if multi-page, each page would become a separate PS document.) But vector and text would be rendered as pixels.
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