Open Indesign CS5 In CS4

I need open an InDesign CS5 document in InDesign CS4, I am advised to export the document from CS5 as InDesign Markup Language (IDML),
then download the IDML plug-in from the Adobe website: Choose Support > Updates in the Adobe website, and go to the InDesign Downloads page.
For all my efforts I cannot find this plug-in...can anyone send me a link.
Thanks
Steve

You don't need to download a plugin. You need to update CS4 to version 6.0.5 ot 6.0.6. in order to accurately read the .idml genereated from CS5.
Don't expect an exact match. Unsupported new features from CS5, like multiple page sizes or span/split columns will be lost, and the text will probably flow a bit differntly due to differences in the type engines between versions, so there may be changes in paragraph line counts and where text breaks across columns or pages, which can result in oversets or other problems in long docs.

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