Comments on: Import Custom ID CS3 Settings into CS4

By: Pat Kirchberg

Pat Kirchberg — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:53:12 +0000

Thanks for this article.

It’s the little tips that help the most.

By: Luis Augusto Guimaraes

Luis Augusto Guimaraes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:29:00 +0000

It’s not exactly the same subject, but I had many problems on converting documents from CS2 and CS3, specially with the Paragraph Composer diferences, that my texts runs trough the document and I have to manually fix that…

By: Johan van Ooijen

Johan van Ooijen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:38:52 +0000

[[The comment author added these links to PDFs about presets.]] see also: this pdf and this pdf.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:45:35 +0000

Since I can never remember which damn paths/folders those various custom settings reside in, I resort to the trick of, say, saving a GREP search as “12345XLR78″ — then I just search my hard drive for that sure-to-be-unique filename, and presto, I’ve found that obscure folder location!

By: Sandee cohen

Sandee cohen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:08:13 +0000

Thanks for the article.

I just got stung yesterday when I lost a custom Preflight Profile that I had made.

But when I had to reset the preferences, that profile went with them.

My suggestion for anyone who has made custom preflight profiles is to export them and save them in a safe place in case you need them later.

And don’t forget that you can embed profiles in a document to send it off to others.

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:18:12 +0000

Great posting, Anne-Marie! Two comments:

(1) I have heard of problems importing keyboard shortcut sets from one version to another. The problem is that the shortcuts included, and sometimes even the structure of which group they’re in changes from version to version. Sometimes, I’ve heard, the keyboard shortcuts appear to work at first, but fail later on. I’d do that transfer carefully. You may just want to print your list from the previous version, and recreate them in CS4.

(2) There’s an important new feature in InDesign CS4 called preflight profiles. Of course, there were no preflight profiles in CS3 so there’s nothing to bring over. But, for future reference, custom preflight profiles you create in CS4 are like Print or Document Presets. They are by default saved in InDesign Defaults (I think). You need to manually export these profiles to back them up. I hope to cover this more in a future posting or two I want to do on InDesign CS4’s Live Preflight feature.