Cs3 to cs2 adding strokes to most shapes

The problem seems to be the ID on my computer at work. If I open an inx on another computer, all is well. On my computer I get strokes on many of the outlines (text boxes, graphics boxes).
I tried trashing the prefs. No luck. I tried restarting with only the required plug-ins and totally corrupted my ID and had to remove and reinstall. Even with that I still get the problem.
Of course I'd rather use cs3 but its not my call.
alan

That's a symptom of opening CS3 INX files with CS2 not fully patched to
4.0.5.
Bob

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Every single box is outlined after conversion from CS3 to CS2!!!! Plz HELP!!!

Hi there guys,
I'm quite new to the forum, but I have come through an issue that is weird to me...
See: One of my clients I'm a freelance designer– is an ad agency whose only graphic designer is on marriage vacation.
This guy converted some files from Indesign CS3 to CS2 so I can go on whit the projects while he is out happily just married in Thailand...
The problem is, however, whit every single box, doesn't matter if they are text or image boxes or even empty boxes. Neither if they already had outline or not. They all have somehow come up whit a black outline. And I'm starting to lose my nerves on fixing that...
Moreover, there are some text boxes –footnotes and the like– that contain a web address or an e-mail direction. This "www.xxxxxxxxx.com" and the "[email protected]" stuff is outlined within the text box with the same black line that will disappear only if I type back the thing...
Is this maybe a known issue? Has anyone ever heard or experienced that?
Any workarounds or known fixes or whatever?
Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to read and answer!!!

The outlines around hyperlinks are just visual indicators for you so you'll know they are there (not all hyperlinks show up as URLs) and won't print. You should be able to turn them off in the hyperlinks palette if you want to. If you just re-type the hyperlink text it will no longer be a real hyperlink, if that'st required.
As far as the strokes on everything, I'm not sure. Is it possible there's an object style applied to all of these items and the stroke is now defined in the style. (Does CS2 support object styles? I've forgotten and don't have it on this machine to check). It could also be some sort of translation glitch in the move from CS3 to CS2.

Importing INX from CS3 to CS2 problem

Greetings,
I'm working on a 16-page newsletter file saved from ID CS3 to INX that then won't import into CS2. When I try, a list of missing plugins come up that its saying are needed. The thing is, I've done this before and it wasn't a problem. Also, I've tried a blank test INX from CS3 into CS2 and it opens.
I'm assuming there's something in this particular CS3 newsletter file that's causing the snag, but have no idea what I'm looking for or how to fix it. A corrupt font, maybe? or corrupt image file?
I had a similar newsletter file last month that I did the CS3 --> INX --> CS2 thing with, and it worked fine as well. I just repeated that process with those old files and it still works, so the problem is with this new file. I'm not using any new plug ins or doing anything really different this month compared to last.
Any ideas? I'd really rather not have to recreate it from scratch, especially if it may not solve the problem -- it'd take a long time and we're in a bit of a hurry.
Thanks for any help.

I saw the hyperlink in there just by luck -- it was a long document and I was just scanning through, seeing what I could see. I went back to the InDesign CS3 file to remove it via the "Hyperlinks" panel, and resaved as INX, which opened in my CS2.
Unfortunately it didn't open in my colleague's CS2 after all though, which is why we were doing the INX deal in the first place... so we gave up and we're editing it over the phone. Real high-tech.
There really needs to be a plug-in or something next time around, Adobe, or preferably, built-in backward-compatibility like most other apps have. This whole "save as INX" thing is extremely annoying.

Photoshop CS3 (nor CS2) won't launch since CS3 install

Since installing Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium I can no longer open Photoshop. It repeatedly crashes on the launch window. For the sceptical, my CS3 Production Premium collection was all legitimately authorised and registered.
Of the other CS3 apps that installed (can't install Encore, Premiere or Soundbooth on PowerPC) they all open and run perfectly fine.
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//-- edit- the crash seems to happen when 'Building TWAIN menu items' --//
Message was edited by: Frwthr

You can try trashing and regenerating Photoshop preferences when you launch.
Hold down command/option/shift while launching Photoshop. You will be asked if you want to get rid of Photoshop settings. Choose yes.
See if this works; you may have to reset some of your Photoshop preferences afterward. I'm not sure why you can't install the other applications.
Also, it may have something to do with activation; did you activate your copy of CS3? You should be able to have CS3 and CS2 both running as far as activation is concerned, but are they on the same drive? This might be a problem if one version is trying to read the other's settings during launch.

Snippets: CS3 vs CS2

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I know it seems like it's not a big deal, but we have a script that places a snippet (among doing other things) and I really don't want it to stop for the user to click. They're used to things just showing up where they're supposed to be.
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> Has anyone noticed a difference in Dreamweaver CS2 vs
CS3 regarding
> stylesheets
> and publication?
Only that DWCS3 renders CSS-based pages better than DW8 did
(I assume that's
what you mean by CS2).
> Could it be something else?
Definitely. Can you post a link to a page?
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> Has anyone noticed a difference in Dreamweaver CS2 vs
CS3 regarding
> stylesheets
> and publication? What I mean is, DW-CS2 shows my page in
layout form with
> the
> attached stylesheet and the pages look fine and publish
fine. When I close
> DW-CS2 and open DW-CS3 and open up the same files they
look as though the
> stylesheet is not attached to the file and when you
publish the file it is
> showing messed up without noticing the stylesheet is
attached. (<link
> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"
href="includes/xxx.css" />).
> I've
> tried various ways of attaching the stylesheets but they
continue to not
> work
> or publish correctly in DW-CS3 and I have to close down
and open up CS2 to
> view
> the files correctly and republish them to make them look
the way they did.
> Basically, currenlty I can not use DW-CS3 for stylesheet
related designs.
> Does
> anyone know of this being a bug? Is there a fix? Could
it be something
> else?
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CS3 and CS2

I was searching forum and read that it may be an issue with installing CS3 and CS2 on the same computer. Can someone confirm this for me as true.
Thanks,
Tim

Never had any problem at all, although (disclaimingly yours) YMMV.
I should mention that my experiences are based on chronologically installing CS, CS2, and CS3,
i in that order.
(It might be important -- perhaps someone with lots of free time can experiment with different install orders.)
As the file extension for all three versions is the same (".indd"), Windows cannot link files made with different versions to their original creators, and using the Explorer, the latest installed version will lways open. However, each separate program can be started manually, and can open its own documents and older ones w/o any problem at all.

Apostrophe glyph does not transfer from CS3 to CS2 by inx

Can someone please confirm this: The Apostrophe glyph does not transfer by inx from CS3 5.0.2(640) to CS2 4.0.5(688).
It does transfer by inx from CS2 4.05(688) to CS1 3.0.1(838).
It also does roundtrip in CS3, CS2, and CS.
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I tested this with Times (T1) in a very simple file containing just the apostrophe glyph followed by the lower case "x". These tests were conducted in Tiger 10.4.11.
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Al

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Get stroke color of shape

Hi,
I need get stroke color of shape in photoshop, but I only find how to get fill color, any suggestion?
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Stroke inset from shape

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CS3 to CS2

Hi,
when I receive a CS3 file with previews images (and without links from client), and I open it (inx file from CS3) in CS3, I lost preview and I've grey blocks in place.
I would like to know what I lost too, because this is not always the same person who works on the files CS3 AND CS2?
How can I keep my previews, if I do not have a source, thus creating a pdf without grey block?
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I don't know if there are issues about have cs4 , cs3 and cs2 installed in the same pc
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I purchased a product, I think PM 5, from a reseller. At the time I specifically asked the sales rep if they knew if the next version would be released imminently, and they said no, they had no information about a new version from Adobe (and I think that bears out what Dov said above), so I went ahead and place the order. PM 6 was released shortly after.
I called customer service (how I found out I should do this, I don't know, perhaps I was just incensed) and I think I had missed the thirty day window by a couple of days, but the rep took pity on me, perhaps because I had asked about the new release, and I was sent a free upgrade for the cost of shipping.
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Apply 3D stroke to a shape layer?

hi all
I have some animated paths set up in a 3D scene, using shape layers (I used shape layers to have square capped lines instead of round caps:)
I wanted to try using 3D stroke, instead, to give a bit of thickness to these lines/paths... but I'm having trouble
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The After Effects CC (12.2) update makes creating Bezier paths easier and more obvious.
option for creating shape layers based on Bezier paths:
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Problems with opening CS3 doc in CS5 (stroke added, etc.)

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http://tinypic.com/r/2mzfy1c/7
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Yes, I only opened it in CS5. This problem did not exist in CS3.It is not constant against all files and all pages.
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I found out, that if I create a graphic object with defined swatc (f.e. C=100, M=0, Y=0, K=50), my code: 
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Cs3 to cs2 adding strokes to most shapes

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