Re: Which version of InDesign created a document?
Re: Which version of InDesign created a document?
- Subject: Re: Which version of InDesign created a document?
- From: "Houston, Brad" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:53:23 -0700
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- Thread-topic: Which version of InDesign created a document?
Hi Garry,
I deal with the same issue continuously, and sorry, I don't have a solution.
Creator and type are the same for all versions, and icons are no longer
reliable quides to reflect what made something.
Gary (Lists),
You're a sharp guy, but I think your reply trivializes a serious
issue/oversight/marketing ploy by Adobe in failing to make any
distinguishing difference between versions of their products, starting a few
years back.
What often happens, since you can't tell the version, is that an earlier
version will try to open in a later version (assuming both are present),
converting the doc in the process. You work the file without noticing its
been converted until you go to save it. The versions are not directly
backwards compatible, and if you send back a CS2 to a customer with only CS,
they can't open it at all. They must buy the new version.
In reverse it's just annoying, a CS2 will try to open in CS then stop and
tell you it can't do what it shouldn't be trying to do in the first place.
Who knows how many thousands of hours this "oversight" has wasted, but it is
a great marketing tool to force upgrades down customers' throats. I'm
vehement because Adobe has always been my favorite software company until
they started following a predatory marketing policy in the image of MS.
Maybe they will read this change their ways, but I doubt it. Too much money
involved.
Brad
On 3/18/08 3:57 PM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:
> "Simon, Garry" wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a continually vexing problem - we have different customers who
>> send
>> us InDesign documents created in CS, CS2, and CS3, and insist that the
>> documents be returned to them as the same version they were supplied. Is it
>> possible to use a script to determine which InDesign created a document? We
>> really don't want to have to open each document in CS, then in CS2, and then
>> in CS3 to check.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Garry Simon
>
> I don't understand. You're asking a scripter to solve a clerical oversight?
> Add the customer's return format to the job jacket at intake. That's the
> right way.
>
> If I send you some artwork created in CS, you should work on a copy of that
> artwork, not on my original.
>
> If you are supposed to return to me an image that I can use on my machine,
> then you should ask me what format/version I want, and then you should make
> a copy for me in that format/version.
>
> "Here's my original logo. I'm sorry it's a .pictClipping, but that's all
> Microsoft Word will make, I think. Please add the donkey, as discussed, and
> return the new logo to me as a Photoshop document that I can open with
> Photoshop 7."
>
> Graphic artisit adds donkey [using any software they like] and then saves to
> user specs.
>
> End of story.
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