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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML

009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML

Anne-Marie Concepcion: We InDesign users don't live in a vacuum. We're usually not the only person who needs to work on a layout file. Often that layout file needs to circulate with their clients or coworkers or vendors, freelancers and they might not be using the same exact version of InDesign that we are. And that causes a lot of angst and consternation because unlike Photoshop or Illustrator or even Microsoft Word, InDesign does not have an actual menu command that says save to an earlier version. So that's what I want to talk about in this video, how to share your files with people who use earlier versions of InDesign. Right now I'm running InDesign CS5.5, as you can see from the splash screen. Now I am going to open up a document that's this is the latest version as I'm recording this. File > Open. I am going to go to the Desktop and open up a file called goldengate.indd. So it's missing some linked images. That's not a big deal. But the file itself opens up fine. Now I am going…

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