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Save a Document to be Opened in an Older Version of InDesign?

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One of the quirks of InDesign is that an INDD file saved in the current version of the software can’t be opened in older versions. In order to save a document created in the current version of InDesign so that it can be opened by an older version of the software, the document has to be saved as an IDML file. If you want the technical reason for this, here it is: IDML stands for Adobe InDesign Markup Language. IDML is an XML representation of an InDesign document or its components. This ...

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