I just think you should be able to backsave to previous versions if you want, instead of the silly dance that Adobe make you do get from CS5 to CS3 or from CS4 to CS2. Nothing more frustrating that being limited by the software that you paid a lot of money for. For now I'll have to keep working CS2, CS3, and CS5 and hope that CS5 hasn't got any major bugs as print deadlines don't care about software glitches. ... View more

BobLevine wrote: Sorry John, but what kind of signal would that send to the LOYAL customers that shelled out the cash for the upgrades one at a time? Bob, what about when Adobe offer that if you buy CS4 close to CS5 release you get CS5 for the upgrade price (or free)? Surely a new customer with CS5 should be afforded a licence for CS4, sort of reversing the idea that CS4 get CS5, why not have it be get CS5 get CS4? I couldn't upgrade to CS4 because the Style Mapping bug in CS4 solely prevented me upgrading. I missed out on CS4 because of this. Adobe weren't going to fix this until CS5. But a few people kicked up a storm about it and 6 months prior to CS5 being released it was fixed in a patch. In the end the powers that be decided that with CS5 available in 6 months time that they'd wait. Now I don't have CS4 at all (except for trial) and I have no way of transferring back to CS3 if I need to. I think that it was fine perhaps for one version save back up to CS4, it made sense reallly. Hardly anyone is using CS or CS2 now. But I have to say that with so many versions of InDesign about now, and with CS6 in 18 or months we're going to have people using CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS6 - probably. I don't know about you, but I'd want a very safe and reliable way to save back down to any of those versions from CS6. Just saying, that it's getting to the point now where people are happy with CS3 as it had probably the most advanced changes to the software (in my opinion), CS4 has some good things too, and CS5 is a bit of a candy coating. So yeh, for CS6 I'd want a reliable way to backsave at least as far as CS3, but if it were to come to only backsave to CS4 I'd be up the swanny without a paddle. Adobe really needs to start thinking about all the different versions of InDesign that there are and that people will have and how best to enable a reliable backsave for some people that simply can't upgrade (like I couldn't). To me it makes sense to be able to backsave at least to CS3. ... View more

You've echoed the sentiments of many. It's really bad support from Adobe regarding backward compatibility in InDesign. But even if you did have CS4 and wanted to go back to CS2, you'd have to open your INX file in InDesign CS3 and export again to INX (there was a double downsave trick of editing the INX file) But regardless, Adobe has only ever allowed one version back compatibility for InDesign. Frustrating. ... View more

Sorry excuse my post there. Not in character at all for me. Pretty tired today. I made a mistake and I posted some irrelevant information in this case. Grrrr I hate being tired. ... View more

Dan Poynor wrote: Eugene - it looks like you've posted some screen shots from your Windows computer. Windows is actually a different operating system than Macs use and both operating systems don't use the same options in every window for every task. Microsoft and Apple are the different companies that create the operating systems. Please read forum posts carefully before responding. For example "Mac OS X 10.6.2 MacBook" means I'm using a different operating system. I'm sorry I wasn't on my Mac - I would have noticed that missing. I've only ever made files like this from my Windows computer I was unaware of the issue with the Mac. I do read forum posts carefully - thanks for letting me know what to do and when to respond? I'm sure what I've posted will help someone at some stage who is searching for an answer to the same problem. I've seen this question asked many times for both Windows and Macs and the answer that I have given in the past has solved the issue. Please note you're not the only person in the world or reading the forum that has this issue. We know now that this specific OS has an issue. And I'm sorry I was unaware of this obscure fact. I'm sorry my answer didn't fulfill your specific needs and I'm sorry that I wasted my time creating those screen shots for you to assist you. ... View more

Duly noted. ... View more

That's unfortunate. ... View more

Well you can go to Postscript too and distill it, that's fine, you still have those options in distiller. So yes if PDF isn't there, then Postscript and distill. ... View more

Some people will have the a PDF printer installed. You don't have to  just output this to your own printer, you can make a PDF. File>Print Booklet Set up the booklet to your liking At the bottom of the Print Booklet Dialog Box there is a "Print  Settings" Click this to bring up a new Dialog Box You should see a listing for "Printers" at the top of this Print  dialog box. If you have Adobe PDF printer installed, you can print  directly to a PDF. If you want to choose a Pre-Defined PDF setting, go to Set Up ...  (if you get a warning continue on) Make Sure Adobe PDF printer is selected - and click on Settings Here you can define the settings to your likings, or choose  a  pre-defined PDF setting. ... View more

Oh right. File>Print Booklet Set it up >Print Settings... >>Printer>Adobe PDF I know it's not obvious. I'll post a comment there to clarify. ... View more

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-704ba.html No? ... View more

Oh I totally agree, there was nothing hard about double clicking, except when an image is burried under different layers or other images I felt the same way about the content grabber - but surprisingly it's very useful, I think it would have been better to have a modifier key enable the content grabber than it always being on or off. It annoyed the crap out of me for the whole time I used it. Then when I went back to CS3 I had to force remember how to grab the content of an image burried in the layers. It has it's merits and it's weaknesses. But I agree, double clicking is just as easy and the spring loaded tools would make grabbing the content easier anyway - http://indesignsecrets.com/spring-loaded-tools-in-cs5.php [sarcasm]Nonetheless - they felt adding content grabbers, roundy text frame handles, rotate, auto fit etc. than updating current features that are lacking, like variables splitting lines, footnotes (spanning columns, better formatting options etc.), endnotes, better table styles, and a few other things got the sideline so you can grab your content easier without double clicking. [/sarcasm] ... View more

It seems the enhancements that have been made to InDesign to make selecting things easier has actually made it more difficult. I'm not really sure what the issue with the frame highlighting is? It's never been an issue for me in 6 years of using InDesign. However, I do disagree about the content grabber. I miss it when I go back to CS3, it was very frustrating in Cs3 and CS4 to content grab, it's so much easier in CS5. ... View more

I'm surprised that with all the changes to CS5 and "enhancements" that are basically taken from other Apps, that this wasn't included. ... View more

How do you mean "jump around"? It just makes the frame edges the same colour as the layer, which is white. The frame edges are defined that colour from the Layer Colour. Pity there is no "None" though. ... View more

Well a sneaky way to do it, fake it, change your Layer Colour to white (or whatever colour you background is)? ... View more