soxy doesn't open id cc files

[katmcg]

Downloaded soxy for mac trial. All it does is change InDesign cc file icon to a cs6 icont, but won’t open they file saying it needs a new id version

[Rick Gordon]

I'm pretty sure can't do that with Soxy. It will open older version docs
in older version of the app, but you'd have to translate in as an IDML
if it's in a newer version — and then look out for features that didn't
carry over.

Rick Gordon
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On January 2, 2018 at 4:54:08 PM [-0800],
Katmcg wrote in an email entitled
"[ID] soxy doesn't open id cc files":
> Downloaded soxy for mac trial. All it does is change InDesign cc file icon to a cs6 icon, but won’t open they file saying it needs a new id version
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[katmcg]

Is this all that Soxy does?

Managing MultipleVersions on the Same Machine

Many InDesign users have multiple

versions of the program on the same

computer, and they want CS4 files

to open in InDesign CS4, CC files to

open in CC, and so on. One way to do

that is to buy the third-party product

Soxy from Rorohiko.

[Rick Gordon]

Yes.

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On January 2, 2018 at 5:21:07 PM [-0800],

Katmcg wrote in an email entitled

"[ID] Re: soxy doesn't open id cc files":

> Is this all that Soxy does?
> Managing MultipleVersions on the Same Machine
> Many InDesign users have multiple
> versions of the program on the same
> computer, and they want CS4 files
> to open in InDesign CS4, CC files to
> open in CC, and so on. One way to do
> that is to buy the third-party product
> Soxy from Rorohiko.

[katmcg]

Thanks for your help, Rick

I’m trying to figure out options. ID cc2015 is the newest id that will work on my os10.95 imac. But won’t upgrade as I have apps with tons of plugins that won’t work on newer osx

My client once had to idml files for me, and I dowant to make it as simple as possible for her to give me more work.

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[Bret Perry]

Kat, if you have a Creative Cloud subscription, you can convert any file that’s a newer version of InDesign into the version you like (it makes the IDML in the cloud without the newer version installed on your cpu).
Probably only back as far as CS4(?), but back to CS6 or newer for sure.
I haven’t tried it on an older OSX, but I don’t think that matters... have you tried the Cloud conversion in CC?

If you don’t like that, or if Adobe’s solution doesn’t work with 10.9, MarkzTools2 from Markzware also makes IDMLs of newer CC files without the cloud - runs in 10.8 or newer OSX.
https://markzware.com/products/markztools2/

I have had some issues when I need to save down to IDML and open in earlier versions -- and the more you do it with one file up and down, the worse it can get.
Saving CC2017 down to CC2014.2, I often get master page items moving several inches on the document page -- so weird, the master page is OK and re-applying master usually works to fix it.
With CS6 we had trouble with master pages where items that had been unlinked/deleted/modified from the master page reappeared on the document page from which they had been deleted when converted.

So, just to say that if your client requires a newer or older version of InDesign, it is best to use what they do rather than convert.
But in your case that would require another Mac if you need old apps that won’t run in 10.10 or newer.
Of course, if your Mac supports the newer OSX, you could install everything on an external drive and boot from that when you need to.
If I remember correctly, it was upgrade to Mavericks that Macs required a firmware update and after the firmware update, they couldn’t boot to any OS earlier than Mavericks anymore.
Or may mis-remember, and it was moving on from Mavericks that blocked older OSes...


PS
Sorry for the confusion about Soxy, “all” it does is make sure any InDesign file opens in the version that it was last saved in.
You have to have whichever InDeisgn version you need to open with installed.
It just makes sure that. for instance, a CS6 doc will not open automatically in CC2018 (when you have both installed).
Not a huge feature set, but very convenient when you have multiple clients that each want a certain ID version.

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 On 1/2/18, 6:19 PM, "indesi...@googlegroups.com on behalf of katmcg" <indesi...@googlegroups.com on behalf of kat...@mindspring.com> wrote:

Thanks for your help, Rick

I’m trying to figure out options. ID cc2015 is the newest id that will work on my os10.95 imac. But won’t upgrade as I have apps with tons of plugins that won’t work on newer osx

My client once had to idml files for me, and I dowant to make it as simple as possible for her to give me more work.

On Jan 2, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Rick Gordon <li...@rickgordon.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure can't do that with Soxy. It will open older version docs in older version of the app, but you'd have to translate in as an IDML if it's in a newer version — and then look out for features that didn't carry over.
>
> Rick Gordon
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> On January 2, 2018 at 4:54:08 PM [-0800],
> Katmcg wrote in an email entitled
> "[ID] soxy doesn't open id cc files":
>> Downloaded soxy for mac trial. All it does is change InDesign cc file icon to a cs6 icon, but won’t open they file saying it needs a new id version
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[Roger Weiner]

I have always kept InDesign CS4 installed as well as current CC, as it will open Quark as well as old Pagemaker files. Later versions of InDesign do not.

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[katmcg]

Bret this is great info.

Soxy folks wrote and explained. Markz requires a subscription.

So far clients don’t care if cs6 or has been IDML-ing files for me and few problems.

But I need to let one know I can install cc up to 2015 quickly. I doubt they’re on cc 2018.

But am thinking of upgrading, but I remember the last major on zapped a lot of my app and am expecting as bad or worse upgrading beyond Mavericks.

Eventually possbily for a new imac, maybe partitioned so I can keep Mavericks.

I suspect that when Affinity, serif.com finally comes out with their layout program they’ll be able to open ID ccs.

Can’t wait.

I often use Affinity Photo or Designer as to open files I can’t open with Psd or Ai.

Kat

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