7 Replies Latest reply: Feb 6, 2009 7:40 PM by Thomas Phinney RSS

    InDesign CS2 Middle Eastern Edition files in newer (non-ME) English InDesign

    cgrscott Community Member
      I have InDesign CS2 Middle Eastern Edition and I'm currently using InDesign CS3 Standard English Edition.

      When I open legacy ME Edition files in IDCS3(non-ME) version, I get a warning message saying:

      Missing Plug-ins:
      ME Enabler.framework
      ME Extras.framework

      This has not been a problem since I can still work with the documents and I only open ME files that only use English. But it has caused a problem for me if I have to collect for output with the "Package" command. I get an error message saying:

      "This document cannot be packaged due to missing plug-ins. Please install or activate these plug-ins: ME Enable.framework."

      The cure for this problem, or the method of purging the ME components from the file, is to Export the file from InDesign ME (or the non-ME version) to an InDesign Interchange file. Then my InDesign CS3 Standard English Edition is able to open the Interchange file without error messages about missing ME Plug-ins. I'm also able to us the Interchange exported version to successfully collect for output with "Package" without running into missing ME plu-in messages.

      This is a real plus because my traffic controller gets nervous when she opens my files and they are asking for ME plug-ins. One of my customer's vendors got nervous with the same situation as well.

      Most of the time, I send jobs to vendors as Press Optimized PDFs, but it's nice to know there is a way to purge the files from the Middle Eastern Edition components when I know someone will need to work with the InDesign documents.

      Only when I'm working with Arabic text, I go back to using my installation of InDesign CS2 ME.