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Douglas Thomson
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May 30, 2020
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InDesign 2018, MacOs 10.15 and new Macs

My clients insist on using 2018 for various reasons and software compatibility with DAMs etc. I currently have a 2016 MacBook Pro, with a Catalina container and a Mojave container for dual booting.

 

Now here's the problem. If my Mac decides to give up the ghost, travel to the electronic graveyard, how can I continue to use InDesign 2018. Buying a new 2020 MacBook Pro means that Mac OS 10.15 is the default OS and that will not run InDesign 2018. Saving an INDD from 2020 to an IDML would be the answer, but it reflows and Master page items shift. 

 

Are there any suggestions? Could the InDesign programming team recompile so that InDesign 2018 is 64 bit happy? 

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May 31, 2020

No they won’t do that. (Catalina rejects old apps, even the 64 bit ones; the 64 bit rule is just part of the story). Adobe and Apple only move forward even when your clients and collaborators don’t want to. This is a problem. You can try these options

  • Get an old Mac instead
  • get an old Mac too. 
  • Run a virtual machine, like with Parallels desktop. 

Be sure to get and keep old installers for both macOS and Indesign whenever you can, they are hard or impossible to get later. 

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