CS3: Missing plugins if I open a...

Hi

We develop some plugins for InDesign.

Now I have the following situation:

- In an InDesign installation there are some own developed plugins installed.

- I create and save a InDesign document with this InDesign installataion.

- After that I open this InDesign plugin in another InDesign installation WITHOUT one or more of this plugin.

- If I open this document, there are some messages about missing plugins.

- I havn't do anything with this plugins in my document, there are only installed.

Can I do anything against this?

Thanks

Hans

CS3: Missing plugins if I open a...

This is, as far as I know, normal behavior. You can strip the plugin information out of the document by exporting to .inx, but if you open and save again on a machine on which those plugins are installed, the information will be restored.

CS3: Missing plugins if I open a...

Be sure you're not trying to open a CS4 document with CS3, or CS3 with CS2.

That will also give you a ''missing'' or ''update plug-ins'' warning as well.

d

Contact the developer. Most plugins should not require dependancies.

(Although some do...)

Harbs

I took the OP to mean he IS the developer.

Harbs,

Since you obvioulsly know a lot about making plugins, was my initial post correct, i.e. the file will always report missing plugins if they were installed on the machine where the file was saved, even if not used, when opened on a machine on which they have not been installed? It's also my understanding that this is not normally a problem and nothing to cause concern as long as the file actually opens.

Peter

Oh. I missed the OP's post. Reading posts by email can sometimes be

confusing because of the non-existent headers...

Harbs

Hi Peter,

Basically correct.

There will be a missing plugin warning if the plugin writes any data

to the file which is not flagged as not needing the plugin installed.

Generally, there is data written by the very presence of the plugin

being installed. If the plugin properly flags all data as unimportant,

there will be no warnings...

Harbs