CS3 to CS2 compatability issues

I have Illustrator CS3 on my computer and I need to send an .eps file to someone who needs to open it on a CS2 file Can someone explain to me how to do it? I have no clue how to do this "legacy" stuff that i keep on reading about.

Why not simply send him a CS2 Illustrator file? Simply choose the respective older version format in the Save dialog. Sending an EPS would be kinda foolish, as it flattens everything and he would not be able to edit it much, but he might so with a native AI file, even if some of CS3 specific features will also be converted/ flattened...
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>My conclusion would be that LR can only import PSD files that meet the following requirements:
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Your conclusion is only partially correct.
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necessary* composite preview. You can continue to use the flatten command to fix the errant files.
*Enabling the Maximise Compatibility preference ensures that Photoshop creates a composite preview of multi-layered images. It is intended to enable applications that can't read layers to preview the images. Lightroom cannot read multi-layered files, therefore the composite preview MUST be present in such files.
>Has anyone noticed different behaviour with the Lr v2 beta? I'd hate to double the size of all my multilayer PSDs just so they can load into Lr(?)
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