Link to InDesign CS3 Trial?

Hi, I am trying to locate the InDesign CS3 trial download. Does anyone know where to find it? All the CS3 links I've found take me to the CS4 page where there does not seem to be a trial available yet.
Thanks.

I looked the other day myself, and it appears that the CS3 trials have been removed from the website. You used to be able to find them on the updates pages, but no more.

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I wrote several scripts to solve this problem, here is one of them.
// Change paths of links.jsx
// Script for InDesign CS3 and CS4 -- changes the path of each link in the active document.
// Version 1.0
// May 13 2010
// Written by Kasyan Servetsky
// http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua
// e-mail: [email protected]
var gScriptName = "Change paths of links";
var gScriptVer = 1;
var gOsIsMac = (File.fs == "Macintosh") ? true : false;
var gSet = GetSettings();
if (app.documents.length == 0) {
     ErrorExit("No open document. Please open a document and try again.", true);
var gDoc = app.activeDocument;
var gLinks = gDoc.links;
var gCounter = 0;
if (gLinks.length == 0) {
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CreateDialog();
//======================= FUNCTIONS =============================
function CreateDialog() {
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     dialog.alignChildren = "fill";
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     var findWhatEdTxt = group1.add("edittext", undefined, gSet.findWhatEdTxt);
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     var okBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "Ok");
     var cancelBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "Cancel");
     var showDialog = dialog.show();
     if (showDialog== 1) {
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          app.insertLabel("Kas_" + gScriptName + "_ver_" + gScriptVer, gSet.toSource());
          Main();
function Main() {
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     for (var i = gLinks.length-1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
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          oldPath = oldPath.replace(/:|\\/g, "\/");
          oldPath = oldPath.toLowerCase();
          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = gSet.findWhatEdTxt.replace(/:|\\/g, "\/");
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          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = gSet.findWhatEdTxt.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/i, "/$1/");
          gSet.changeToEdTxt = gSet.changeToEdTxt.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/i, "/$1/");
          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = gSet.findWhatEdTxt.toLowerCase();
          gSet.changeToEdTxt = gSet.changeToEdTxt.toLowerCase();
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               newPath = newPath.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/, "/$1/");
          else if (File.fs == "Macintosh") {
               newPath = "/Volumes/" + newPath;
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function ErrorExit(myMessage, myIcon) {
     alert(myMessage, gScriptName, myIcon);
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For example any of the following notations are valid:
Windows
c:\dir\file (Windows path name)
/c/dir/file (URI path name)
//10.44.54.70/Test/images (uniform naming convention (UNC) path name of the form //servername/sharename)
//Apple/Test/images
\\10.44.54.70\Test\images (Windows path name)
\\Apple\Test\images (Windows path name)
where 10.44.54.70 IP address of the server, Apple -- DNS name of the server, Test -- share name
Mac
The following examples assume that the startup volume is MacOSX, and that there is a mounted volume Remote.
/dir/file (Mac OS X path name)
/MacOSX/dir/file (URI path name)
MacOSX:dir:file (Mac OS 9 path name)
/Remote/dir/file (URI path name)
Remote:dir:file (Mac OS 9 path name)
Remote/dir/file (Mac OS X path name)
You can just copy a part of the path in Links panel and paste it to the script's dialog. In CS4, make sure to choose "Copy Platform Style Path" in context menu.
The case of the characters doesn’t matter: you can type both in upper and lowercase in the script's dialog. For example — Test, test, TEST, TeSt — are all the same for the script.
Regards,
Kasyan

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b should
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