A

Anonymous

Question

RPLN Plug In Missing - will not allow me to open files

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
January 5, 2009
16 replies
71689 views

I have InDesign CS 3 version 5.0.4, Windows XP, on a PC. I created a book using several chapters for a 200+ manual. When I left work on Wednesday, 12/31/08, all files were fine. I did not change anything that I am aware of.

This morning I came in, opened the INDB and most chapters had the warning triangle beside them. When I clicked on it, I got the message the plug-in was missing. I chose the option to open it anyway, but it would not open. Please, please, please tell me there is a quick fix to this.

My customer is waiting as I write this for me to send her an updated PDF of the book for her to review.

This topic has been closed for replies.

W

winstonchowwj

Participant

I am using a CS4 now with ver.6.0.6. I was trying to open file (which is not my work) but it won't. What should i do or have in order to open this file? Here's the message:

Peter Spier

Community Expert

You are trying to open a file saved from a newer version of InDesign. Ask the person supplying the file to provide .idml instead (and expect some changes and potential loss of features in the converted document) or you will need to upgrade.

There is a script at Adobe Forums: [Ann] Identify Your InDesign File that will help you identify what version of ID was used to save the file.

I

iamtuareg

Participant

I realize this is a really old post (and problem it seems)

I have InDesignCS Version 3, which I used extensively a couple years ago to publish 2 books.

Now it will not load my .indd files for those books. This is the notification that comes up when I try.

The plugins that I have on disc are all zipped. There were many that were already loaded when I loaded the program.

Anyway, here's the message.

Are there supposed to be other files needed to access the book (not just indd's?

Suzanne O

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Version 3 is CS1, which is more than a couple of years old. This file was created in a later version. Are you sure you don't have anewer version hanging around someplace that you've forgotten?

I

iamtuareg

Participant

Hi Peter,

Strange that. No I have no other edition. Never have had. Have never been able to afford another.

It seems very odd that so many others have had the exact same experience. Is it possible that Adobe put a time limitation on the version so that files done before a certain date wouldn't load. I wouldn't put it past them.

I would have liked to have been able to make some changes to those book files, but guess not.

S

P

phatphil1304

Participant

I understand that there might be a conversion problem between CS3 and CS4. But a friend who has CS4 was trying to send me something that she saved as a .pdf and it still would not open with my version of Acrobat. I thought .pdf was universal... Will I get this everytime? Is this Adobe's way of making sure I buy CS4? I'm just really disappointed...

-P

Kenneth C. Benson

Inspiring

What version of Acrobat? What was the error message?

Ken Benson

P

phatphil1304

Participant

Acrobat could not open 'XXXXX.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

this was the error message and my version of Acrobat is the one that comes with the CS3 package, so it's not like it's old or anything. I always thought that PDF was universal across the board, regardless of version. Tell me if that is wrong.

-P

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Daniela,

It sounds like your file was viewed and saved in CS4 the last time, and now you are trying to open it in CS3 again. If you email just the .indd file to me at spammercatch at comcast dot net I will take a look and export back to .inx for you, so it can be opened on CS3.

Peter

E

E_umenides

Participant

I am having the same problem as many of the others are having. I have CS3 and work on Windows and CS3 at home on Mac. When I try to open my the version I created in Mac, I receive the same sort of errors, Worldready.indesign.plugin; conditionaltext.indesign.plugin. Any ideas why I can't transfer from one version to another? Do these not work together? I am in a crunch and worked late last night to get a project done thinking it would be able to be opened at work.

Terry

BobLevine

Community Expert

Those are errors are you would get trying to open a CS4 file in CS3. The WorldReady plugin was introduced in CS4 so there's really no way that file could have been created in CS3.

This is NOT a Windows/Mac issue.

Bob

_

_Daniela_NL_

Participant

It's really terrible. This morning I would like to open my document of diploma work (InDesign CS3 Version 5.0.4) and I get this error, too.

("... uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system"), and the plugins are the the same: worldready.rpln and conditionaltext.rpln.

What can I do? I'm desperated.

Thank you for helping me.

Daniela

Peter Spier

Community Expert

File a bug report here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and be sure to offer to send in the problem file for analysis.

Peter

_

_Kevin_R__Jackson_

Participant

Same issue. Questions going back a few months and no solution gives me the warm fuzzies.

File was likely originally a CS3 and may go back further created on the PC side. I then had it opened in CS4 on the PC and then moved to MAC. I get same messages and can not open file from InDesign. What worked for me was to close InDesign and open from the file itself.

This workaround seems to work but...tried Save As and that still gets me nowhere. I think this is called a bug when you have a file created by a company's product that it can not itself open. Seems like a pretty glaring problem to me. Any hope of getting it solved?

Andreas Jansson

Inspiring

I get this error too... on a CS4 Server Installation ("... uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system"), and the plugins are the the same: worldready.rpln and conditionaltext.rpln.

The document has been a CS3 document, but converted and saved by CS4 to CS4 version.

Is there any explanation to why the two plug-ins reports as missing sometimes?

-- Andreas

_

_AHannagan_

Participant

Hi, I just downloaded the trial version of CS4 6.0, but the INDD file that I created cannot be viewed by my colleague who uses CS4 5.0. He says that the good-old RPLN plugins are needed:

WorldReady.rpln
conditionaltext.rpln

I have heard of this problem between CS4 and CS3, but never between versions of CS4.

Any advice to help us out?

Thanks!

BobLevine

Community Expert

The other person is using CS3.

Bob

tlmurray23

Inspiring

One would think that InDesign would be at least as smart as FrameMaker, where you get a message "Although this appears to be a FrameMaker file, it cannot be opened with this release of the product."

Show more replies

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded