Include previews in saved documents, Save an indesign markup (idml) document, Save backwards to the previous indesign version – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Working with documents
See also
Include previews in saved documents
Thumbnail previews of documents and templates provide easy identification of those files in Adobe Bridge and in
Version Cue file dialog boxes. A preview is created when you save a document or template. A document preview
includes a JPEG image of only the first spread; a template preview includes a JPEG image of each page in the template.
You can control the size of the preview to suit your needs. For example, Extra Large 1024x1024 enables you to quickly
scan the contents of a page at high-resolution before you open the file.
You can enable the option in Preferences or in the Save As dialog box. Because previews increase both file size and the
time it takes to save the document, you may prefer to enable the option on demand using the Save As dialog box.
1 Do one of the following:
•
To include a preview every time you save a document, choose Edit > Preferences
> File Handling (Windows) or
InDesign
> Preferences
> File Handling (Mac
OS).
•
To include a preview for a specific document, choose File
> Save As.
2 Select Always Save Preview Images With Documents.
3 If you are setting the preview using the Preferences dialog box, choose an option from the Preview Size menu.
Note: Selecting the preview option in the Save As dialog box also selects the option in the Preferences dialog box, and uses
the default Preview Size setting.
Save an InDesign Markup (IDML) document
In some cases you may want to save an InDesign in interchange markup format. It’s especially useful to save in this
format when you open a QuarkXPress or PageMaker publication in InDesign, when you open a document created in
a previous version of InDesign, or when you’re experiencing problems with your document, such as not being able to
delete color swatches.
1 Choose File
> Export.
2 From the File Type (Windows) or Format (Mac
OS) menu, choose InDesign Markup (IDML).
3 Click Save.
You can open the saved IDML file in InDesign CS4 but not in any previous version of InDesign. To save a file for use
in InDesign CS3, choose the InDesign CS3 Interchange (INX) option.
For information on using IDML for development purposes, see
Save backwards to the previous InDesign
version
To open an InDesign
CS4 document in InDesign CS3, do two things. First, in InDesign CS4, export the document to
the InDesign CS3 Interchange (INX) format.
Second, make sure that the computer running InDesign CS3 is updated with the appropriate plug-ins so that it can
open the exported INX file. The person running InDesign CS3 can obtain the compatibility plug-ins by choosing
Help
> Updates and following the prompts. Plug-ins can also be installed from the Adobe website: Choose Support >
Updates in the Adobe website, and go to the InDesign Downloads page.
Updated 18 June 2009