InDesign 2 questions

I had heard at a seminar there were some downloads for InDesign 2 which would make our life easier at the newspaper where I work. Where could I find them on the Adobe Web site?
Also, are there compatibility issues between InDesign 2 and 3? I was thinking of downloading a version of 3 to see what new things have come out, but if there are compatibility issues I don't want to be designing pages and stuff with it.
Thanks!
Larry See
Relatively new user

Peter,
given the current economic situation of most newspapers, it is reasonable to not replace 100s of working computers mainly used as typewriters, upgrade all software and push the staff thru retraining every other year, just to follow the latest fashion in software advances. Heavy metal people are used to think in 10 year or longer investment cycles.
Larry,
as Peter said it would help to know whether you really mean InDesign 2 (blue butterfly on blue background) or InDesign CS2 (pink butterfly on white background). The startup screen will also give you the numbers.
Next, please tell us your OS (Mac or Windows), and whether you're working with an editorial system and eventually which. Indicators are login windows, extra menus that are not in the regular manual and feel more like "business", newspaper specific rather than "creative".
There should also be some person at the help desk / user support or even management that knows these nifty details. Before you get into downloads and such, you should anyway talk to these people whether it is ok at all to install additional software.
Independent from the version, there are two kinds of additional software:
Plugins are modules created by programmers, the same way as internal InDesign functionality. Assuming you really have InDesign 2, back then there have been only few plugin developers with few products and even if you find them these old versions are most likely out of support. For example I had only two plugins for ID2 for image related tasks, and the earliest version that I have built in the past two years was InDesign 3 (CS). Another disadvantage of plugins is that they usually have a price tag - no free downloads off the Adobe site.
Scripts are written in simplified programming languages, often the authors are regular/advanced users. They also may come as source code so you could adjust them to your use. Note that InDesign 2 only supported AppleScript (Mac) or VisualBasic (Windows) while a large share of scripting is nowadays done in JavaScript which was introduced with InDesign 3.
You could definitely download example scripts in these languages from newer versions, strip out all the added functionality not supported by your version, adjust some more required changes and eventually end up with something useful. This of course depends on whether you can spend the effort (time) and go thru the learning curve to become a scripter. There is a dedicated forum for that next door. As you say you're relatively new, it helps to first know the program from the user side. Note there are books even covering such old versions - see eBay or Amazon.
Back to the initial questions. If you have an editorial system there might be a user group around with similarily old installations, where other people already have built a collection of scripts. Try to get in touch with them.
Regarding compatibility from newer to older versions, you're mostly out of luck here because documents prepared in newer versions at best require conversion before you can use them with your old system, dropping all newer features and likely causing reflow and other trouble in the existing workflow. If you have isolated, special tasks (tables? fancier graphics effects?) you could of course produce a PDF and place that like an image.
Best luck,
Dirk

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