Opening InDesign CS2 files in InDesign CS
Backward Compatibility in Adobe InDesign CS2 allows InDesign CS users to open Adobe InDesign CS2 documents by first exporting them to the InDesign Interchange (INX) format. To open INX files from InDesign CS, you also need to first install an update for InDesign CS called Adobe InDesign CS 3.0.1 April 2005 (CS2 Compatibility Update). To determine if you have the update installed, see document 331403 , "Determine if you have installed InDesign or InCopy CS 3.0.1 April 2005 update."
Contentthat you create using functionality that is specific to InDesign CS2 might be modified or omitted when you open the file in InDesign CS. For example, footnotes and object styles (new features in InDesign CS2) drop out. However, the INX file preserves attributes applied to page objects using the Object Style palette attributes when possible.
To export an InDesign Interchange file from InDesign CS2:
1.Open or create a file in InDesign CS2.
2. Choose File > Export.
3. In the Export dialog box, select InDesign Interchange from the File Type menu (Windows) or Formats menu (Mac OS).
4. Click Save.
The table below describes what happens to various features, settings, and elements when you open InDesign CS2 documents in InDesign CS.
| Feature or Setting | Supported? | Notes |
| Text | ||
| Footnotes | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. Footnotes will be missing in InDesign CS. |
| SING glyphlets | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. SING glyphlets will become missing glyph boxes. |
| Paragraph Gyoudori | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. Paragraph Gyoudori is stripped from the documents. |
| New Kinsoku sets [Chinese and Korean] | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature.New Kinsoku sets will revert to default sets in InDesign CS. |
| Track Changes | No | Track Changes visible in InDesign CS2 will not appear in InDesign CS. [1184704] |
| Anchored Objects | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. Anchored objects will become inline graphics. |
| Excel Import | Yes (limited) | Named Range and Cell Range import preferences will be lost for linked Excel files. [1185066] |
| Documents | ||
| Basic Paragraph style | Yes (limited) | After you export an InDesign CS2 document to INX, the Basic Paragraph style will be renamed NormalParagraphStyle regardless of the language version of InDesign you use, and you can delete it. [1173356] |
| Individual Note Color | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature, Note color will revert to the default color for InDesign CS. [1183742] |
| Units & Increment Settings | Yes (limited) | Units & Increments settings revert to default settings for InDesign CS. |
| Linked text files | Yes (limited) | A missing or modified link error may appear due to differences in the time stamp (Windows only). [1134319] |
| Imported PSD Files with Layers | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. Layers that are deleted from the PSD file in InDesign CS2 will reappear in InDesign CS. [1126243] |
| Last page viewed | No | When you open the INX file in InDesign CS, the document opens to the first page. [1059033] |
| Object Styles | No | Object styles will get stripped out, but all the attributes supported in CS should remain applied to the objects. |
| InCopy Workflow | ||
| Assignments | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. |
| InCopy .incx file format | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. You should embed or unlink stories before you export to INX. If you update links to INCX files in CS, you will lose content. |
| Tables | ||
| XML in tables | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. XML in tables will be stripped out. |
| Keep With Next Row | No | InDesign CS does not include Keep With Next Row settings from InDesign CS2 documents. |
| Composition | ||
| Text in joined frames (that is, frames created using Object > Pathfinder) | Yes (limited) | Text may reflow. [1146493] |
| Align first line to grid | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature, composition may appear different. |
| Balance Ragged Lines | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature, composition may appear different. |
| Object Shape Text Wrap | Yes (limited) | Some Adobe Illustrator objects may lose text wrap when file is opened in InDesign CS. [1243510] |
| Suppress Text Wrap/Layer Option | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature, composition may appear different. |
| Inline Graphics | Yes (limited) | Vertical positioning of inline graphics will be lost. [1184020] |
| Cross Language Conversion (Japanese to Roman) | ||
| Table cell heights | Yes (limited) | Table cell heights may change when you open an InDesign CS2 INX file (Japanese or Roman) in the in InDesign CS (Japanese or Roman). [1157954, 1160032] |
| CJK Grid Tracking | No | InDesign CS does not support this feature. CJK Grid settings will be replaced with Roman InDesign leading defaults. |
| Ebook Features | ||
| Object Links | Yes (limited) | If the link is broken when you open the INX file, the link will be stripped from the Links palette. [1058766] |
Additional Information
329786 : Error "...Content Manager cannot open '[filename].indd'..." (InDesign 2.x, CS)
331351 : Unable to save InDesign CS2 files in InDesign CS format
329660 : Can't save documents to a previous version (InDesign 1.x-CS2)
332437 : Link information in an InDesign CS2 INX file changed when opened in InDesign CS
331640 : InDesign CS crashes when you try to open an INX file from InDesign CS2
331349 : Error "This is not a valid InDesign interchange format" when you open a file (InDesign CS)
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