Which Version of InDesign?

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Which version of InDesign is my file? CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4 or even CS3 or CS2? Or wait, is it an InDesign v9 or INDD v8 file? What is the difference? Why won't my InDesign file open!!! All good questions and this InDesign file format tutorial covers all of them and more. InDesign version down-saving service from Markzware is also an option: http://markzware.com/markztools/dtp-conversion-service-quarkxpress-indesign-publisher-down-save-service-indesign-cs5-cs3/ No more InDesign error messages, like, "Cannot open this document" or "missing plugins." IDML is an option, but then you need a higher version of InDesign! Which is why Markzware can be so handy. I mean, which version of InDesign is that file! (Higher versioned InDesign documents will not open in lower versions of Adobe InDesign.) Adobe Forum - "How can I tell what version an InDesign document was saved as?" http://forums.adobe.com/thread/964444 Also, with Markzware FlightCheck you can see EXACTLY which version of InDesign you have: http://www.markzware.com/products/flightcheck Also, how to down-save InDesign files: http://markzware.com/desktop-publishing/down-save-indesign-file-open-cs6-file-cs3-markzware/ The versioning from Adobe for InDesign is very confusing, so see the handy chart or info graphic at: http://markzware.com/desktop-publishing/down-save-indesign-file-open-cs6-file-cs3-markzware/ Which Version of InDesign! Alright, so what I have here is I have a file I got in from a customer, to determine which version of InDesign that file is and is the file integrity good, because it could be a bad file. So, here, I just want to show you how I'm getting it from the same USB drive. I'm going to get this file here, modified 11:14, size 19.3 megabytes same file. I'm going to first put it here on this Mac Book Pro, a more modern machine I use, with more modern applications for desktop publishing of InDesign CC, InDesign CS6, all that kind of stuff. Alright, so now, I have the file here. Now, what I'm going to do... We see the file here. What you can do on a Macintosh is, very simply, you just click once on the file and you do a Command-I, from Isaac. And what you get is this, very handy, for all intents and purposes, an accurate way to see information about this file. Well, we see it was created 11:14, like we just saw. We see the size and we see the kind, an InDesign CC document. So, that's rather interesting, because what you're going to see in a moment, if I take the same exact file on another machine, it's going to tell me the kind is an InDesign something else version file. There's a reason for that, but it's one of the things that confuses many people out in the market is what version of inDesign file do I have here? So, just to highlight exactly what I mean here in CS5 and when I I try to open up that file... Let me just double click it. And InDesign will come back in, unfortunately, like many of you know, will tell us this. Well, it's not really a missing plugin. Well, yes, technically it is, but you know designers are now freaking out, publishers, printers freak out, and they contact Markzware, if they find us, and we can help them, so that's no problem. We can down save the files for you. We have a conversion service link below, which we can do this for you. But, in any event, in the meantime, you're freaking out and you get all these different error messages that just keep coming across and the file just will not open. Now, what is rather funky, you can take that same file, open it in CS6 or CC, export as .idml, and it will open in CS5, and more or less, be perfectly OK. You can get some things which will disappear or shift you've got to be careful with, but exporting to IDML is necessary. Otherwise, you get this: You just cannot open file. That's the problem. Markzware also has a file conversion service, which I'll give you more information on, or we can down save InDesign files for you. Markzware offers many plugins and extensions to help you convert files from Quark to InDesign, from InDesign to Quark, from PDF to InDesign, pretty much you name it. Check out markzware.com today, and we hope this tip has helped you. Thank you. David Dilling from Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!