Saving CS3 file as CS2 file

I am trying to save a document cover that I created back as a CS2 file. The art department in my company has not upgraded to CS3 yet. How do you go about doing that. I still have the old version. Please help!
kt

All later versions open the earlier versions. But not the other way around. So if someone has CS3 they can directly open a CS2 file.

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With the Indesign Interchangeformat it works fine for CS3 to CS2. Is there anything similar for Illustrator?
All this version trouble with software that is that expensive!!!
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I constantly trade file with a user of CS3 while I am still using CS2. THe only issue for me is that if I Save As from a file he down-saved, the default save format is PDF, even though the file is an AI file. But all other editing is available. Sounds like you are not saving as CS2.

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I'm just wondering if anyone knows why InDesign CS2 files might crash InDesign CS3 when you try to open them (on Mac OS10.4.11)? The files still crash CS3 even when all the elements have been deleted from the file - all the text, pics, swatches, para and char styles, layers. If the file is saved as and then try to open it in CS3 it still crashes InDesign.
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Might InDesign CS2 have been using a third-party plug-in?
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Manage multiple versions(ID CS,CS2,CS3,CS4) of INDD files Indesign proxy for PC

Dear scripters,
I have multiple version of ID installed in my system. I have ID CS,CS2,CS3 and CS4. While I am opening (double click) the ID CS file, automatically the file opening in CS4. For solving this problem I have searched in the forums I found there is a program called INDESIGN PROXY for MAC OSX. It manages the problems well.
Now I am in the process of developing the application same like that for windows using VB. Here is my observation about Indesign proxy.
1. While user double clicks the Indesign file the argument is not passing to the Indesign.exe, but the argument passes to the Indesign proxy. Something like this
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to this
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I don't think it's a mistake.
"InDesign CS4 (3.0)"
means: this is the OM for InDesign 3.0 (i.e., InDesign CS) that is contained in InDesign CS4.
Wait -- do you mean there might be a difference between "the OM for InDesign 4.0 (i.e., InDesign CS2) that is contained in InDesign CS4" and, say, "OM for InDesign 4.0 (i.e., InDesign CS2) that is contained in InDesign CS5" ?
Why on earth would anyone need that? I imagine it's not because even with versioning the 'older' scripts may not behave the same -- there must be dozens of mails about versioning not working ... I mean, if Adobe knows what causes older scripts to stop working (because, if I understand you correctly, they retroactively change it in the documentation for older versions), wouldn't it be yet easier to not cause those changes?

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Cannot Open 'CS3 file in CS2' - programmatically handle this dialog

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Cannot open "xxxx.indd". Please upgrade your plug-ins to their latest versions, or upgrade to the lastest version of Adobe InDesign.
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If you opening CS3 file in CS2 you alway get error message.
I think best solution is check indesign document version before opening it.
I have code for checking indesign version but it is Javascript code.
But it will give you idea how you can check indesign version and skip that files.
Here below is code:
f = File.openDialog ('Select file', undefined, false);
alert('Indesign version: '+getFileVersion(f));
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f.open('r')
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InDesign CS2 file crashing when saving or using save as

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I have a file that ran fine until the last few pages were edited. The file is a mock-up and has very few links and only 3 different fonts. The file opens fine and I can edit everything, and print. The actual program and document seem to work fine. However, when I attempt to save changes or export it crashes In Design and I get the "reference memory cannot be read" message (50%) of the time. Other times no error message is reported. Sometimes the changes have actually been saved and other times they are not. With the "save as function" I get a 50/50 return on a new file. I have tried re-naming the file, opening the file on another computer and the same thing happens. My other ID files are fine. Everything works fine until I try to save the document.
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bernadettebuechler,
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