3 Replies Latest reply: Mar 5, 2011 3:11 AM by P Spier RSS

    How to export from CS5

    zaconda Community Member

      No luck to export as a idml so far. The original file is 209mg. when i export it gives me a 4kb file . Anyone have an answer.

        • 1. Re: How to export from CS5
          Scott Falkner Community Member

          zaconda wrote:

           

          …Anyone have an answer.

           

          What’s the question?

          • 2. Re: How to export from CS5
            zaconda Community Member

            My question is why is the exported file so small and why wont

            it open in CS4?

            • 3. Re: How to export from CS5
              P Spier CommunityMVP

              The .idml file contains less information than the .indd -- no image previews or embedded profiles (I think), for example, so they tend to be smaller. How much depends on the content and how recently you did a Save As on the .indd file to remove unusable change information.

               

              Export in CS5 is a background task, which means it doesn't show you a progress bar, but there is a little animated icon in the menu bar that runs while the export is in progress, and you can open the Background Tasks panel from the Window > Utilities menu to check on progress. Perhaps your export is not complete.

               

              Are you saving locally or to a network location? Is the copy of CS4 patched to at least 6.0.5? What happens when you try to open the .idml? Does it open in CS5?