InDesign CS3 License Upgrade

Hi,
My client is running the trial version of InDesign Server CS3 which has now expired. Is there any way to install the now purchased full license without a re-install of InDesign Server?
Alec.

In IDS CS4 reserialization can be done from the command line (InDesignServer -serialnumber number). Command line reserialization only works in CS4 though, not in CS3.
According to Adobe the only option is to uninstall IDS CS3 & reinstall with the full license serial.

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Purchasing Indesign CS3 licenses

I have clients who have 2 copies of Indesign CS3 and a considerable amount of work has already been done on the existing version and they don’t want to either have to do it over or to mix two different versions. Is it possible to purchase licenses for CS3 even though CS4 is out? Is it possible to purchase CS4 licenses, but have the serial numbers downgraded to work with CS3? They want to keep their installations legal but really desire to use CS3.

Bob is right, Adobe will not give out licenses to CS3 at this time. The supported licenses are CS4 only for now.
I checked this out late last year and I was informed I'd have to buy the full CS4 Mac version, as there was no way to convert a CS3 Windows version over to CS3 Mac, as it was too late after the release of CS4.
But Peter has a point, what is up with the requirement of having to do these files over and why would you need to mix two different versions? Just upgrade to CS4 for the two existing computers and buy new copies of CS4 for any new or added computers they need to install InDesign on and use CS4 exclusively on their files from there on out.

Upgrade from Indesign CS3 to Indesign CS5 server

Hi,
I have been looking on adobe site to check if I can have an upgrade from Indesign CS3 to Indesign CS5 server. I have Indesign CS3 license but need to migrate to Indesign CS5 server. Does anybody know whether it is possible to buy upgrade from Indesign CS3 to Indesign CS5 server. Or will I have to buy new license for Indesign CS5 server. Any help on this is appriciated. Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I have been using Indesign CS3 for generating automated reports. These reports are large in numbers. Limitation with Indesign CS3 is it only allows single instance of the application. And hence I am forced to generate these reports in sequence using multiple servers. Indesign CS5 server on the other hand seems to allow multiple instances running at the same time. This would mean I can generate multiple reports at the same time. This will reduce time to generate these reports and also limit the number of servers. This is the reason I want to migrate from Indesign CS3 to Indesign CS5 server. However, I am not sure if I can get direct upgrade from Indesign CS3 to Indesign CS5 server or I have to buy new license for Indesign CS5 server. Do you have any idea on this, please suggest. Thanks in advance for your response.
Regards,
Chaitan.

InDesign CS3 won't open after upgrading to Leopard.

I'm having an issue starting up Indesign CS3 since upgrading to Leopard. It seems like everything else has been working great, including the rest of CS3, so I'm kinda baffled as to why this doesn't.
When I open it, after loading for a few seconds, I get this error:
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Any ideas?

WOOOO HOOOO! IT IS JUST A FONT CONFLICT!!!!! I think....
After days of trying to figure out why, after installing Leopard, InDesign CS3 crashes every time I tried to open "certain" files... I finally figured it out - at least on my system. I emphasize "certain" files, because InDesign would open certain InDesign files flawlessly... and crash when trying to other InDesign files. I narrowed it down to a handful of files and the only thing that these files had in common was one particular font. Well as it turns out, upon installation, Leopard put a bunch of new fonts into my system folder. I am also using Suitcase Fusion to manage my fonts. When starting the "culprit" files, Suitcase Fusion would try to "auto-activate" a font that was already activated at start-up in the system folder. After removing the "duplicate" font from my system folder - and restarting my computer - everything was back to normal seems to work fine now. I am not much of a computer technician.... but this worked for me. Let me know if this helps you too.

I need the upgrade path for Indesign CS3 to operate on Mac OS X Version 10.6.8?

I need the upgrade path for Indesign CS3 to operate on Mac OS X Version 10.6.8?

The latest, and only available choice is CS6. You have two choices, subscribe to Creative Cloud or buy a new license.
There are no upgrades with the exception of a discount for the first year of the full Creative Cloud.

Question about upgrading my TLP CS3 license to a commerical license.

Hi there,
I bought my Production Premium CS3 TLP license through an Adobe reseller 18 months ago. I opted for TLP on the reseller's recommendation because at the time i wasn't sure whether i would be switching from a PC platform to Mac platform.
Now that I've switched to Mac, i no longer need the cross-platform licensing advantage. Can I purchase a commerial license upgrade for Productiom Premium CS4 on the Adobe Store? Or am i forever locked into to buying TLP license upgrades?
Thanks in advance,
Andre

Hi Andre, I wonder if you ever managed to solve this?
I am in the same predicament but was told by adobe under no circumstances could I return to retail licensed products. If you have manged to do this it'd be great to know.

Can't reinstall InDesign CS3

I was a longtime PageMaker user, and upgraded from PageMaker 6.5 to InDesign CS3 a few years ago. I'm not a designer, so use it mostly for family projects. Last month my computer died and I took it to a computer shop, where they had to wipe it clean (saving files), which required me to reinstall all my software. No problem with anything except the InDesign. Because it was an upgrade, it wants the serial number from my PageMaker, which I discarded not long after I originally upgraded to InDesign. I want to be able to use it (I did pay for it, after all -- even if it isn't the most current version anymore). I "chatted" online with Adobe technical support, but they said they can't help me because it's not a current version. Is there anything I can do to be able to use this program that I paid for? Any help is much appreciated.

I'm sure I registered my PageMaker, but I was using a different email at that time, and I'm unable to log in to Adobe using that email address (and the various passwords I was using way back then). My current profile shows my serial number for my InDesign -- and my registration date in 2008. Maybe I shouldn't have discarded the PageMaker serial number, but still.... they have a record that I legitimately installed it in 2008.
I got an email response after my online "chat" and it didn't even refer back to me and my problem. It didn't even get my name correct! Doesn't make me feel very confident in the level of support... Here's that email, copied and pasted:
Hi Seved,
Thank you for contacting Adobe.
You had contacted us regarding the installation issue with Photoshop Elements 12. Please download the trial version of Photoshop E lements 12 and click on the license this software option and enter teh serial number. Unfortunately chat got disconnected in betwe en the conversation.
For further assistance please feel free to contact us at any point of time.
Live chat is available for 24hrs and 7days a week.

Installing CS4 and keeping InDesign CS3

Can I install CS4 without removing InDesign CS3? I need to keep both on my computer. is there a trick to this? Also, if I decide to remove CS4 later from my computer and move it elsewhere, can I uninstall it without imperilling InDesign CS3?

You can install CS4 and keep CS3. Just remember that IF these are upgrades, you cannot use CS4 and CS3 on different computers simultaneously. They are for the use of a single person. Technically, your upgrade license for CS4 supersedes you license for CS3. You no longer have a license for CS3 anymore. I doubt Adobe objects to you using CS4 and CS3 on the same computer. You can remove CS4 on a computer and put in on a new machine. A commercial license allows the non-simultaneous use on two computers. You probably can turn on the old computer when you have an occasional job that requires CS3.

Indesign CS3 closes when printing

I have OS X Mountain Lion and Indesign CS3. When i send a file to print, indesign closes.
Deleting the PPD files in /library/printers/PPDs/contents/resources solve the problem, for a while, less than a week, then, it crashes again.
i found this link, so, do i need to upgrade to CS5? is there a way to solve this problem without upgrading?

Not clear from your post if you are able to delete the PPD files again because they are being restored somehow, or if you can no longer print at all.
There is practically no possibility that you will find a legitmate copy of CS5 available for purchase, so be very careful and be sure whoever is selling it guarantees that you can register and activate it, and that they are trustworthy. Many users don't realize that educational licenses cannot be transferred, and that any version used as part of an upgrade chain can only be transferred along with the rest of the chain, and that the transfer requires filinig a form at Adobe.
The only options today on the regular market are CS6 perpetual license, for which I believe you would pay full price as there is no upgrade from CS3 any longer, or a Creative Cloud subscription. I believe your CS3 license would get you a discount for the first year. The subscription gets you both the CC versions released recently, and CS6 from the archive, which you may need. There are currently a few threads going here about problems users are facing with CC, but they don't affect everyone.

InDesign CS3 Intallation Problem

I was wondering if anyone can help. I have downloaded the free 30 day trial of InDesign CS3 3 times now and installed. Each time I try and load the program it comes up with the following message:
"Adobe InDesign is missing required files. Please reinstall.
Missing files:\Program Files\Common Files\TypeSupport\...\CP1252.TXT"
I dont know why this keeps happening or even what to do. Please help because I want to know if this is worth buying or not.

>I have downloaded the free 30 day trial of InDesign CS3 3 times now and installed.
This could be a problem. Trial versions can be installed only once on a computer without doing a low-level format in order to keep people from using them over and over without buying the real thing.
Unfortunately, the CS3 installers are horribly sensitive to a lot of configuration issues and if you haven't got your system properly prepared (which is not well documented anywhere, though you'll find lots of information scattered through these forums), the installation will fail, sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after nearly an hour of what looks like success. I have no idea at what point the installer writes the information, or where, that tells the demo it has been previously installed.
With the fully licensed version there are a number of options, including a cleanup script, that can put the system back into a state where the installer has a chance of working. It has been suggested a number of times that doing the cleanup might allow a failed demo to install, but I'm not aware of anyone who has tried and posted back that it worked, or didn't work, so I have no way to advise you in that regard.
It's a little unclear to me just what has happened, though. Are you saying that InDesign actually launches, but throws up an error? If that's the case, it might be possible to copy the missing file from a working system. That certainly worked for earlier versions and the "missing required cmap files" error.
The file you referenced should be in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\TypeSupport\Unicode\Mappings\Win, along with about a dozen others. You may be seeing only the first missing file, so I'd recommend copying the entire folder.
Worth buying? That depends on a lot of factors. What do you plan to use it to do? What are you using now? How much will it cost? How long can you wait?
As a professional I use it everyday, and the upgrade cost From CS2 was paid in increased productivity in a matter of months. Students are eligible for discount pricing that makes it eminently worthwhile to buy before graduation -- you can use it commercially later. If you can wait, the usual pattern is that an upgrade is issued about every 18 to 24 months, so you might expect the CS4 versions to be out by early 2009. One could hope the Installers would be fixed.
Peter

Reinstalling InDesign CS3

I am having problems reinstalling InDesign CS3 on Windows 7 Professional. After an update I was having problems with a couple of my design programs InDesign CS3 and Micromedia Freehand. I have reinstalled Freehand and have tried to reinstall InDesign but am unable. After I start the installation program it is asking to install another disk. This program came with only 1 disk.

You should have three options: Install Pagemaker, supply the serial number from your Pagemaker license, or insert the Pagemaker installer disk at the prompt. The first and last of those may be problematic on a new system, though I have PM 7 installed here on Win 7 pro. Ocassionally the DVD drives on new machines don't seem to like some of the older install disks and either refuse to install or refuse to confirm the media during an upgrade operation.

InDesign CS3 as a default version on a desktop

Is there a way to set InDesign CS3 to be the default version that will launch when CS2 and CS4 are also installed? We have clients who only work in CS2 and/or CS3, and need to maintain file compatibility with them. We would also like to upgrade to CS4; already purchased, but installation has been put off until we can resolve this issue. Saving CS4 files as .inx for CS3 compatibility is not an option for us, as this is not proven to be 100% error-free. Any suggestions?

Ah, Soxy! Some more news: we decided Soxy for Windows made sense, and we're close to releasing a beta.
Stay tuned and subscribe to www.rorohiko.com using RSS in your browser or e-mail client to make sure you get notified if you're interested (we purposely decided we don't do bulk-email - it's such a blunt sword compared to RSS).
Furthermore, Soxy for Macintosh will come out of beta soon, which will end the special price deal we have going for people who purchase a license during the beta test period.
Soxy is much better than 'Open With...' - it analyzes the double-clicked file, and opens it in the correct version (and you can decide what the correct version is). Simply double-click any InDesign CSx document, and Soxy will decide which of your installed versions is the best match.
So if you have CS3 and CS4 installed, and you double-click a CS2 document, by default, Soxy will open that file with InDesign CS3 (as you don't have CS2 installed) - by default it picks the 'nearest higher' version. Double-click a CS3 doc -> opens in InDesign CS3. Double-click a CS4 doc -> opens in InDesign CS4. And so on - and a similar deal for Illy or PDF files.
Cheers,
Kris

Installing InDesign CS3 on Mac OS 10.9.5 Mavericks

Installation of InDesign CS3 on Mac OS 10.9.5 Mavericks
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s c perks Oct 14, 2014 6:04 AM
1. I have InDesign CS3, which I bought about 6 years ago, and installed on my MacBook Pro. I have now got a new Mac Pro running OS 10.9.5 Mavericks. When I bought the machine I asked Apple if I would be able to install my InDesign and they said there would be no problem. But it will not install. The intsllation fails every time near the end. It installs Bridge and one other components, both of which it calls shared components. But InDesign is not installed.
I went to the Adobe web site and looked up what to do. I got to a page that had my product on and it seemed to be telling make I must download an installer. When I clicked on this link, however I got a page with the following message:
HTTP ERROR: 404 /support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp
RequestURI=/support/downloads/dlm/main.jsp
I do not know what to do now.
2. If I do download an installer (I did not need to do this when I first installed the programme on my lap top MacBook Pro 6 years ago, but just installed it from the disc), how do I get rid of the downloader afterwards, since I read somewhere, but cannot remember where, that I should get rid of the installer afterwards but that I should not put it in the trash bin?
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Stephen Perks

Many thanks for your help. I will try this. After posting this question yesterday I contacted Adobe and was astonished to find that they do not sell InDesign and do not support it and that one can only upgrade to monthly or yearly rental of CreativeCloud. I'm afraid for me this is nonsense, and I consider it very bad practice on Adobe's part. I will have to go to QuarkExpress instead if I cannot install Indesign CS3, which I nearly did do 6 years ago, but after reading such good reviews of InDesign and got it. I wish now I'd got Quark! I appreciate your help.

How can I restore proper PDF exports from InDesign CS3 or CS5 in Snow Leopard?

I had no problems exporting PDFs from InDesign CS3 (on a Mac Pro running 10.6.4 Snow Leopard) until this past weekend, when all the fonts appeared bitmapped or thin and raggedy, and the images lost some color depth and contrast. When I copied the InDesign document to my MacBook Pro laptop, also running 10.6.4, the PDF emerged with its original quality. Calls to Adobe support referred me to documents concerning incompatibilities between InDesign and Snow Leopard. One of these documents was several pages long, but I could not print it from the Adobe website to my HP All-In-One Officejet, because one-third of the document was hidden under a white panel. This makes the document impractical for troubleshooting, because I don't have enough screen real estate (even on a 23-inch display) to keep the document open along with all the pages and dialogue boxes needed for reference. Back to phone and chat support, I was advised to upgrade my Creative Suite Premium CS3 to CS5 ($800!!!) and purchase the latest Acrobat Pro upgrade ($200), with no guarantee that this $1,000 cost would actually solve the problem. I did download the trial version of InDesign CS5, and it did NOT solve the problem. I'm also concerned that the problem did not exist until last weekend. Prior to that, my CS3 and Snow Leopard combination worked just fine. I then checked the forums and was dismayed at the variety of problems associated with PDF files, for which there seems to be no general fix. Meanwhile, I have hundreds of ads I'm supposed to be preparing and emailing as PDF proofs to businesses around the country. I have two books of 120 and 256 pages that need to be submitted to printers in PDF format with all kinds of fonts and image files belonging to my clients. The last time I submitted a book to a printer via email, the job went perfectly. This time, and next, it's obvious I won't be able to send PDFs at all! If that's the case, my 27-year-old directory business will be unable to absorb the expenses necessary to start all over with new computers and software, and I will be out of business. Period. So-- does anyone have a way to fix this? I would surely be grateful.
David Henderson

I'm on a local network, built on Apple's Airport Extreme. but I'm the only computer user on it. I use it for transferring files between the desktop computer (Apple Mac Pro) and laptop (Apple MacBook Pro) and, occasionally, to print from the laptop to a Xerox Phaser printer.
About a year ago, I added an Apple Airport Express to the network, allowing me to play iTunes music from the laptop through a Panasonic BluRay player connected to a home theatre sound system. No problems of this nature appeared with that installation.
About four months ago, we connected a DirecTV satellite receiver system to the D-Link router that carries wired network service from the desktop computer to the Xerox printer. The satellite TV system includes a series of modems that allows DVR recordings to be accessed and played from any of the TVs in the house. (As you would now perceive, I run my publishing business from my home). However, this set-up has been functioning for about four months, and I did not encounter the PDF problem until last weekend.
Now -- about the fonts.
Because of the many ads that I publish from various sponsors, it is possible that different versions of the same fonts have invaded my system. In the "missing font" alerts I get, InDesign frequently is seeking TT or T1 versions, which I replace with Adobe fonts when possible. Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium included a fairly large collection, which it keeps in one folder. The Apple OS also includes a bunch in a separate font management folder; and there are carry-over fonts that came with the business when I acquired it 10 years ago. Some of those fonts may go back 25 years to the book's inception. However, in the past several years, I have generally rebuilt all the ads that appear in my publications, substituting newer versions of fonts. Hence, the preflight program has been able to locate and include all the necessary fonts in the packages that go to the printers.
Once again, I have been able to export good PDF files for all the varieties of ads and books included in my system, until last weekend. One of the documents is built entirely with Helvetica Narrow, for which I have only one version.. Another document consists mainly of Times, and there are 3 or 4 versions of that font in the system; but the version contained in the document has not changed from when it exported properly.
So... I guess the complexities involved in the network and/or fonts could be part of the problem, as you suggest, but golly -- I hope not. The last thing I want to do is disrupt and rebuild the network or font collections. The font situation especially would set back production for months if not years, because so many individual ads and off-site clients would be involved in the process.
I'm sorry if I provided more details than you expected. I didn't mean to take so much of your time.
Thank you.

How to import an Quarkxpress 5 file into Indesign CS3

Hello,
I am in trouble when trying to open with Indesign CS3 for windows a file created with Quarkxpress 5 for Mac. Do you have any hint? (file attached)
thanks for support

The Q2ID plugin is really nice as Bob suggested. If you go through there website they will convert your one document and post it for you to download, email you with the results and a discount code. Well worth the money and a very nice company to work with. I can't say enough nice things about their products.
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