InDesign CS5.5 Addresses Frame Edge Highlighting and Saves Back to CS4

Two of the biggest complaints I've seen over the last year, the inability to turn off frame edge highlighting and only one version back save have have been addressed in CS5.5.
There's a new user preference to turn off the frame edge highlighting and the IDML export opens in CS5 and CS4. Technically, I guess that's only 1.5 versions but there's some hope going forward.
I've got my usual top new features article on my website: http://theindesignguy.com/cs5.5-thoughts.shtml and there's a write up at InDesign Secrets as well: http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-cs-5-5-announced.php
Bob

Bob:
Two of the biggest complaints I've seen over the last year, the inability to turn off frame edge highlighting and only one version back save have have been addressed in CS5.5....
the IDML export opens in CS5 and CS4. Technically, I guess that's only 1.5 versions but there's some hope going forward.
I think this is kind of an odd way of looking at it.
CS3 can't open CS5's interchange format not because Adobe tried to break compatibility, but because in CS4 a decision was made to revamp the interchange format (from INX to IDML, which is a much better file format), and CS3 could never read IDML. Yeah, there was a decision made not to support writing to INX in CS5, but that's fallout from other decisions.
It's not as if CS5 strips out CS5-specific information when writing to IDML, nor will CS5.5 strip out CS5.5-specific info when writing to IDML. (I don't have CS5.5, but I can 98% guarantee you that's the case). The interchange format is designed to be read by the version it was written in and give you the same document (otherwise roundtripping through IDML to fix corruption would fail, as would exporting to IDML to get the data into external XML tools). It's also hoped that older versions will be able to read it and to safely disregard unknown features.
We should expect that if IDML is truly a future-proof format, as was hoped for, then CS6, CS7, and CS8 (if we get there before Quark comes back!) will all write IDML files that CS4 will theoretically be able to read (wth lower and lower fidelity).
So it's a bit weird to give credit to CS5.5 for being able to write IDML files readable in CS4. That's an outcome from reasonable architectural design decisions made in CS4...

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