Opening CS3 in CS4?????

If I purchase CS4 will I be able to open a CS3 file? Aall this conversion talk has got me so confused... Glad I'm mainly a Quark user!
Thank you.

You might find a few resources useful.
InDesignSecrets has a post referencing a QXP to INDD guide
HERE
The
InDesigner blog by Michael Murphy has a series of audio and video podcasts you might find useful.
HTH
-mt

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Hi Jim,
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Everytime i open a CS3 psd file in Photoshop CS4 extended 64bit the application crash after few minutes or seconds... this is very very very frustrating...

In PHOTOSHOP CS4 extended 64bit i think the problem is opening CS3 files containing text layer ...
I have done tests with
- a file with only background > apparently OK
- a file with a simply text layer > CRASH
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all file are 640x480 72dpi RGB
The 32bit version don't crash but is to slow than CS3
Firma problema:
Nome evento problema: APPCRASH
Nome applicazione: Photoshop.exe
Versione applicazione: 11.0.0.0
Timestamp applicazione: 48d38aa7
Nome modulo con errori: StackHash_b20b
Versione modulo con errori: 6.0.6001.18000
Timestamp modulo con errori: 4791adec
Codice eccezione: c0000374
Offset eccezione: 00000000000a6e97
Versione SO: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6
ID impostazioni locali: 1040
Informazioni aggiuntive 1: b20b
Ulteriori informazioni 2: 7365e82934fd5d6ca6a7f6098012906a
Ulteriori informazioni 3: 1d0a
Ulteriori informazioni 4: d1fb5c54064c36d5f54ecfc07bcfe17d

Cs4 opens cs3 files with errors

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Dennis,
Many thanks.
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:21:44 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [removed]
Subject: Premiere Pro cs4 opens cs3 files with errors
Jarrod,
As I've stated here in this forum, we're trying to transition Adobe technical support to a new organization and providing the best support we can to our customers. That being said, it is a long and sometimes painful process, which is why I am here on the forums at times to lend some support. This doesn't help you and you might not even care so...
Here's a couple of suggestions:
1. make sure your software is updated (Premiere Pro 4.2.1) by going to help>updates
2. clear your prefs - http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/11/having_weird_behavior_with_an.html
3. try importing (ctrl-I) a CS3 project into CS4
Try these things and let me know how you make out. Also, it would be very helpful if you told us about your system and the specs. I've posted about the importance of 64-bit and lots of memory many times. You can find one link here: http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/03/64_bit_os_and_adobe_products.html
The future of Premiere Pro is 64-bit only: http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/10/its_official_64bit_is_the_futu.html
Beyond that if you'd like me to look into your case, please post your case # here or in a private message to me and I'll gladly look at it.
I sense your frustration and its understandable - give us a chance to help you.
Dennis
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Has anyone successfully been able to install CS4 Master apps on a machine similar to either my desktop or laptop specs and have CS3.3 Master apps continue to work properly?
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j,
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I apologize for posting this twice...once in a previous post and once here. The reason being...the other post was old (2008) and I'm afraid it might get overlooked. So I thought I'd create a new discussion.
I created a bunch of slideshows in CS3 using Insert - Media - Image Viewer. I was looking for an easy way for my client to update the site themselves. Even though it creates a Flash element, it is easy for them to go in and switch out the images. All they do is click on the slideshow box, hit Window - Tag Inspector and click on the little folder at the side of the Image URLs' line. Nothing could be simpler. Well...I went in to see my client to show her how to do this but she has CS4. When I tried to do the same thing, nothing looked the same. The tag inspector did not have the same elements in it at all. Does this mean she cannot edit the slideshows I have created? Ugh...
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Thanks.
Pam

Thanks for your reply via e-mail David. I tried to reply but it's a no reply address so I'm posting here:
Do you happen to know if my client who has CS4 would be able to open the slideshows I created in CS3 using the method mentioned here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Bridge/3.0/WSCF044571-2772-4d28-9EBD-2C9F46AF008A.html
Not having CS4, I can't even play around with it to see. Or will the slideshows have to be recreated in CS4? Has my work in CS3 over the months gone to waste in other words?
Alternatively, would it be better for us both to purchase a $29 Dreamweaver extension such as the one below, so we could both access the slideshow from CS3 and CS4 at the same time?
http://www.dwuser.com/flashslideshow/v3/
I need to keep building the new site using the slideshows while she maintains the old site (no slideshows) until we upload the new site this summer. I don't want to continue building slideshows she cannot access.
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http://www.okino.com/conv/changing_windows_registry_permissions.htm.
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John Joslin wrote:
We don’t want people messing with the registry when they don’t need.
My apologies John I didn't realize that I was addressing the official custodian of Photoshop.
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PDF from Powerpoint on Mac will not place in CS3 or CS4

Got a customer supplied PDF generated on a Mac from the latest version of Powerpoint using the Mac Quartz engine. I can not place it in either CS3 or CS4 InDesign, but it will place in CS and CS2. Problems placing it there as well. The PDF contains a smooth shaded background that turns into a black box in the upper left hand conner. If I open the PDF in Acrobat 6 or 7 it also previews incorrectly. Opening in Acrobat 8 or 9 it previews correctly. If I have the customer send a postscript file and I distill it using PDF/A-1b:2005 (RGB) or (CMYK) it seems to work, well at lest I can place it in all versions of InDesign. The problem now is if I export to PDF after placing it reverts back to the black box in the upper right hand conner. Another issue is writing postscript flattens all the transparent objects in the PDF, something I'd rather not do. BTW if I try to use any other PDF setting in Distiller the program quits. Is this a known issue?

Yes here is the report. Odd that it previews OK in Acrobat 9 tho and not in Acrobat 6 or 7, the two Acrobats that I use, because thats the version I have Pit Stop for. I know I should update Pit Stop but as it is we are lucky to still be open at all with the lack of work here, and can't afford to upgrade anything. I did get these to work but it was a real nightmare and took lots of time.

Colors are different in PS CS3 Vs CS4, Why ?

Hi.
I just found out that colors of a photo in CS3 is not looking the same in CS4 ?
I have a G5 with Geforce 6600 card in and i had to turn of OpenGL because it was so slow when it was enabled.
Then i tried to open both Photoshop CS3 and CS4 at the same time to check a picture and saw for my suprice that the colors was not identical.. Weird.
It is lighter in PS CS4 that in CS3
Also from Bridge CS4 to Photoshop CS4 it was different.
Is that normal. I woulden say.
In my Suite CS3 all colors looks the same in Bridge and PS. OFCAUSE.
I did check my color settings first. They are the same all over (Adobe 98)
Is it a bug or is it because i turned of the open GL settings in PS CS4 ?
If it is because i turned of the Open GL settings in PS CS4, that would be a very bad
thing to do because many people have older computers where the GPU dosent work
well with the Open GL settings ON and you can at least work when its OFF.
But not if the colors are not right.
Please. If someone could replay on this matter. I'm sure more people will like to know
this. I'm not even sure many people noticed this, so everybody.
If you have Creative Suite CS3 and CS4 on your Mac.
Try uncheck the Open GL settings in PS CS4 and restart PS.
Then compare the picture in PS CS3 and CS4 at the same time !!!
Hope someone have some answers ?
Thanks you
Photographer
Erik S.

Hi Chris.
Good news. I cant tell you how happy i am for all your help ;-) and you other guys.
The latest Eizo 5.2.1 software fixed the problem on all 3 Eizo monitors.. Weeee
I'm back to normal.
Now i just have another damn problem started not long ago ;(
My Photoshop CS3 and CS4 keeps crashing on me after a wile of work ???
I tried everything. Deleted preffs etc. etc.
It have been working for long long time but suddenly it keeps crashing all the time.
I tried to remove some new plug-ins, but it was not that.
Only thing i did also was to install new ram.
Upgraded from 10GB to 14GB in all our Mac Pro.
So after i tried to switch the ram around to check if some was bad.
Also run some memory software but everything came out right.
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Dreamweaver CS3 to CS4 Changes

Changes in Dreamwever CS3 to CS4
Creating a text box over a photo.
I have been using a technique in CS3 learned from
"totaltraining.com"
I could take a photo into photoshop and slice it into areas
where I want to create a text block and use the photoshop save to
web application to write the html code and create the images. then
I open the html file in Dreamweaver CS3 and select the sliced block
image that I want to add text on top of and copy the link
information, Then Delete the image and add the hight measurement to
keep the space from shifting then paste the link information into
the box background in the control pallet at the bottom. Then insert
text on top of the background image. This gives me the ability to
use the page properties to add a over all background color or image
and still have a text box with the photo behind it.
The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not find
where to paste the link information. The control pallet has changed
and I can not find out how to add the image back into the cell as a
background. I have tried to just place the image into the cell but
everything shifts.
I know their is probably a better way to do this I am just
learning and trying to figure this out so any advice would be
helpful.
I would just use Dreamweaver3 but the demo I was working on
expired and I bought the CS4 package.
I have a website 80% finished and now I'm stuck.
Thanks, Curtis

Things that you 'used to be able to do but cannot in CS4' are
generally
things that you should never have done in the first place. A
big thrust of
CS4 is to remove things from DW that created invalid or
non-best practice
HTML. This method certainly sounds like a good candidate -
for example:
> use the photoshop save to web application to write the
> html code
This is a very bad idea. Such code is fragile beyond
expectation. One
should only use a graphics app to write HTML that is to be
used for
prototyping, not for production.
> Then Delete the image and add the hight measurement to
> keep the space from shifting
This is a very bad idea. Placing text into a region that is
vertically
constrained is like placing a timebomb in your code. What
happens with the
visitor makes the text larger to read more comfortably?
Blammo....
> Then insert text on top of the background image.
Bad idea for the same reason.
> The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not
find where to paste
> the
> link information. The control pallet has changed and I
can not find out
> add the
> image back to the cell as a background.
There are now two buttons on the Property inspector: HTML and
CSS. Click
the HTML one.
> I have tried to just place the image into the cell but
everything shifts.
Which is why you should never use "wizard" HTML.
> I know their is probably a better way to do this I am
just learning and
> trying
> to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
Really? OK - just put DW down and go here -
http://www.w3schools.com - to
learn HTML and CSS. When you can understand this -
http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
then you will be ready to come back to DW. Trying to use DW
without a fair
understanding of HTML and CSS is like being beat with a
broomstick!
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"Curtis02" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Changes in Dreamwever CS3 to CS4
>
> Creating a text box over a photo.
>
> I have been using a technique in CS3 learned from
"totaltraining.com"
> I could take a photo into photoshop and slice it into
areas where I want
> to
> create a text block and use the photoshop save to web
application to write
> the
> html code and create the images. then I open the html
file in Dreamweaver
> CS3
> and select the sliced block image that I want to add
text on top of and
> copy
> the link information, Then Delete the image and add the
hight measurement
> to
> keep the space from shifting then paste the link
information into the box
> background in the control pallet at the bottom. Then
insert text on top of
> the
> background image. This gives me the ability to use the
page properties to
> add a
> over all background color or image and still have a text
box with the
> photo
> behind it.
>
> The problem is that with new Dreamweaver CS4 I can not
find where to paste
> the
> link information. The control pallet has changed and I
can not find out
> add the
> image back to the cell as a background. I have tried to
just place the
> image
> into the cell but everything shifts.
>
> I know their is probably a better way to do this I am
just learning and
> trying
> to figure this out so any advice would be helpful.
> I would just use Dreamweaver3 but the demo I was working
on expired and I
> bought the CS4 package.
>
> I have a website 80% finished and now I'm stuck.
>
> Thanks, Curtis
>

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