Downsaving from Indesign CS4 to CS3

We just got several new G5 iMacs and we put CS4 Design Premium on them. On the rest of our iMacs we have CS3 Design Premium. When we down save, the text comes out fine, but when saving files with pictures, the pictures do not show up when we open the INX file. Has anyone had this problem, or know a solution to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

If you want people to have access to the image, you need to provide the images. Package the InDesign file, then export the INX. Also export a PDF so people can see what, if any, text reflow occurred or what CS4 features were lost in translation.

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This seems like a different issue this time, as I'm able to print to my home printers, an HP LasertJet 2600n and an HP Photosmart C4270. I thought it might be a printer driver problems, but I've gone to Lanier's site and they don't have any new printer drivers for Mac OS X 10.7.
I also some research on Adobe's site, and found this message affecting CS1, 2 & 3. I tried the only fix that seemed to apply to me, which was re-naming/deleting the InDesign Deafults and InDesign SavedData files. (I have this problems even when I'm printing a text-only file without any graphics.) This fix didn't work.
I can print to the Lanier/Ricoh from Acrobat 9, and all my non-Adobe software just fine, so my work-around to date has been exporting to PDF and printing from there. My big problem is that I need the "Print Booklet" feature in InDesign for a big job I've got coming up this week. Can't do that from Acrobat. :-(
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mmsteer,
I think I may be able to help you with this problem, which I was having with CS4 when I first upgraded to Lion, and others were having with CS3. This fix is courtesy of Aisolve on these discussion boards:
Remove the Adobe PDF PPDs from the following folders:
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/en.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/Zh_CN.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/Ja.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/ko.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/Zh_TW.lproj,
Be sure to go to your system Library, not your user Library.
Also, regarding my current problem, I spoke with an Apple tech person and found that the 10.7.2 upgrade apparently is the culprit, and is incompatible with wireless printing to my Lanier printer. I CAN print connected through USB. That's a work-around for now, but I'll need to contact Lanier about upgrading their driver for OS X 10.7.2.
Aisolve was helping me with this issue, too, and assures me that if I'm able to generate a postscript file (which I was), and able to generate a PDF by distlling it through Adobe Distiller (which I am), then I can safely assume that the problem lies with the hardware, in this case the printer driver. This lines up with what Apple told me.

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Hello All,
Hopefully the subject line says all. Running SL and CS4, and after manually deleting the "old" Adobe PDF 9.0 driver, I am unable to print to PDF — or select "Save As Adobe PDF" under the Mac OS print dialog. This is insanely frustrating on may levels, as this was once a 3-minute operation and now has stretched into two days of futile searching for a solution.
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Am trying to print, once again, from InDesign CS4 (NOT via the Export command as that will not allow me to set page size, or print separations). There is no Adobe PDF driver there anymore and there is no option to print PDFs. Of course, I can rest easier with the knowledge that everything is easier now in SL.

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> I've seen recommendations to buy a book that has a trial
version of CS3.
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> Jo
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Does this mean you would pirate one if there's not a way to
>> downgrade?
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>> No, it does not. It means that considering the luck
I had trying to find
>> a
>> legitimate copy of CS3, pirating would have been the
easiest method, by
>> far.
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Do you not have CS3?
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>> No, I don't.
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Why would you want to downgrade?
>>
>> I'll try to keep this short...I'm taking a class on
Dreamweaver and it's
>> version CS3, but I could only find CS4 (see above).
Maybe it's just bad
>> luck,
>> but almost everything we've done in class with CS3
is different to one
>> degree
>> or another from CS4. With my limited experience with
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thanks
owen

As specifically pointed out there, this won't work to get back to CS unless you use the trick to get to CS2, open it in CS2 and export it again.
Barring that, the client will have to upgrade. Even with that, you're likely to wind up with a complete mess going back three versions.
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