Not a post, it's a question. If someone can help me, thanks!!

[jotar9840268]

How can I make a package in an older version of Indesign. I'm using de latest version!!

[jane-e]

Hi

I'm not sure I follow your question. The steps haven't changed — it's File > Package, but if you want to do it in an older version, you need to have that older version. 

Earlier versions created a Fonts folder, not Document Fonts — I think that was around CS4, and I don't remember when including the PDF and IDML files became part of the process, but those were separate steps a long time ago.

Is that what you are asking?

~Jane

[jotar9840268]

Thanks Jane, I use Creative Cloud and don´t have an older version. My client was asking me for that but is "impossible" from PACKAGE!!!

[Test Screen Name]

InDesign cannot downsave. To collaborate you need to start by agreeing a version that you both have, or it doesn’t work. 

[jane-e]

Yes, impossible with or without Packaging — you can only Save or Package in the current version. You can make an IDML file with Save As or with Package, though, and that can be opened in CS4 or later. That may be what your client is looking for.

~ Jane

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

IDML is the only way to go. That being said, there had been some issue ove rthe last couple of years with recent versions of CC creating IDML files that won't open in certain previous versions, but that seemed to be more of a bug situation. I just tried saving a file to IDML from CC2020 and it opens fine in CS6.

That being said, if you are creating a Package and you are using TypeKit fonts, you cannot save them out due to licensing issues. Your client will need to obtain them legally themselves.

[Randy Hagan]

In some older versions of InDesign, if I recall correctly, the term "Save for Service Provider" was used. It was a carry-over from the old PageMaker days. While it offered essentially the same functions of Packaging files today, less the auto-creating options for generating IDML and PDF found in the latest versions of InDesign CC, it served much the same function, with perhaps some of the features being named differently and located in slightly different spots.

I'm going back some 20 years to recall that, so that memory may be a little dusty as find it among the cobwebs ... your mileage (and my memory) may vary ...

Hope this helps,

Randy

[BobLevine]

Been file > package from day one. Save for service provider was indeed a PM feature.