CS3/CS4 Compatibility

[Guest]

Adobe sales maintains that CS4 files can be saved to CS3. I've seen posts here asserting this is not possible, and I cannot see how it would be possible (no CS3 Save as option). Can anyone explain why Adobe sales would say this is possible if it is not? If it is possible, can anyone say how?

Thomas

[RoboWizard]

Hi Thomas

Would it surprise you to find that Sales was misinformed? (gasp)

The only known way I'm aware of is by opening Captivate 3 and Captivate 4 on the same PC. Then you have projects open in each. Select slides in 4 and copy to the clipboard. Then paste into 3.

Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

Here's the "skinny:"

Captivate 4 could not save files to Captivate 3 when it was new, but it can now.

Captivate 5 cannot save files to Captivate 4, but I'm betting it will be able to do this later, after everyone has upgraded to Captivate 5 and no one needs this functionality.

No. It doesn't surprise me that Adobe Sales is misinformed. (Although I can't, for the life of me, figure out why Adobe can't get it's customer service "act" together).

[Guest]

This question is now moot. When a Captivate version is new, it does not allow saving to the previous version. After the version is well established, the save to previous version is added.

[Captiv8r]

Hi again Thomas

I'm confused here. What exactly are you seeing that leads you to believe that Captivate 4 can save as a Captivate 3 project? I've never known Captivate to *EVER* support this functionality. I have a Captivate 4 with the latest updates installed and it only offers the ability to save as a .CP or a .CPTL file.

On the outside chance that they changed something about the file format that made them interchangeable, I saved the version 4 file and attempted to open in version 3. It balks at me with the following dialog:

So if you are able to accomplish opening a version 4 file using version 3, can you please list the steps you used?

I'm more than a little curious.

Cheers... Rick

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[Captiv8r]

In looking at things a bit deeper, are you possibly talking about the ability to click File > Export > Project to > Flash CS3?

If so, that's a totally different story. You would be exporting to Flash CS3 and not Captivate 3.

Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

Perhaps I am delusional. I presumed that the ability to save to either .cp or .cptl was the backward saving mechanism. I do recall that we were able to save to Cap 2 from Cap3. Am I wrong about the .cp/.cptl (that wasn't available with the early versions of Cap4)?

Thomas

[Captiv8r]

Hi Thomas

.CP is the Captivate file format for all Captivate versions prior to 5. (5 uses .CPTX)

.CPTL is a Captivate Template format.

If Captivate 3 was able to save as a 2 format, it was something I was never aware of. My Captivate 3 has no save as version 2 on its menu.

Cheers... Rick

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[RodWard]

I've used Captivate since it was called RoboDemo before Captivate 1.

I've never known any new version of Captivate to be backward compatible or allow you to save files to previous version formats.

I have Cp3, Cp4, and Cp5 on my current machine.  None of them save to previous formats.  This is an urban myth.  Get someone that says it can be done to prove it to you.