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: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:59:13 -0700
Open the document in CS3, command-click About InDesign..., and look in the document history. Poking around, I don't see a way to get the document history as a property.
Rick Gordon
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On 3/18/08 at 4:53 PM -0700, Houston, Brad wrote in a message entitled
"Re: 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
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