RPLN Plug In Missing - will not allow me to open files

[S***@adobeforums.com]

I have InDesign CS 3 version 5.0.4, Windows XP, on a PC. I created a book using several chapters for a 200+ manual. When I left work on Wednesday, 12/31/08, all files were fine. I did not change anything that I am aware of.

This morning I came in, opened the INDB and most chapters had the warning triangle beside them. When I clicked on it, I got the message the plug-in was missing. I chose the option to open it anyway, but it would not open. Please, please, please tell me there is a quick fix to this.

My customer is waiting as I write this for me to send her an updated PDF of the book for her to review.

[unknown]

Check the time/date stamp on the files to make sure nobody else changed
them.

Bob

[Sharon A. Hipp]

They haven't. The last time they were updated was 12/4/08 and I was the one who updated them. None of the other graphic designers would have any reason to touch these files. I did check properties and it indicates that I was the last one to touch the files.

BTW, I forgot to mention that all of these manual was created in InDesign 3 this year. I have been accessing these files on a regular basis to update them and never had this problem.

It does give me a message (the 3rd message in a series) that says I may not have authorization or the file is open by someone else. HOWEVER, no else has ALL these files open.

Any other information I can provide, please let me know. This will be an incredible disaster if I lose these files.

[Sharon A. Hipp]

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[unknown]

That sounds like an error you'd get trying to open a CS4 file. If you'd
like to email one of them to me, I'll take a look here.

Click my name, go to my website and you'll find contact info there.

Bob

[v***@adobeforums.com]

I have just acquired InDesign CS4 and have no prior experience with it or any other layout software. I've watched the various videos that came with the package I bought, which I bought via the Academic Bookstore. I have tried to create a new document, just to see if I can follow some of the basic instructions. When I open the document, I then go to File / Place / Look In / My Documents / -- I then select, say, a text document and press "open" - Rather than seeing my document's text come up on the InDesign document, I am seeing blue lines in a rectangle, as swell as an error message. The error message tells me "Preflight ON Profile [Basic](Working) ERROR text (1)" - none of which makes any sense to me whatever. I feel as though I am doing something hopelessly wrong right from the start and, at that, it does not get me to a point where I can even learn what I've done wrong OR simply undo what I have done to try to start over. Before this experimental phase, I tried to place a grid, such as a crossword puzzle grid, by placing an EPS file into the document. No luck there either and the whole software package froze up. Can someone mentor me through this?

Vic

[unknown]

This has nothing to do with the subject of this thread. Please start
your own thread and if you want full attention, give us specifics and
paragraph breaks.

Bob

[B***@adobeforums.com]

I have exactly the same problem with missing plugins worldready and conditionaltext. I have updated my InDesign CS3, but still doesn't work. Did this problem ever get fixed? If the file I am trying to open was created in CS4 can it be saved for CS3 so I can read it?

[P***@adobeforums.com]

CS4 files cannot be opened direct in CS3, and there will be no update to allow that.

The closest you can come is to export the file from CS4 as .inx (interchange format) and open that in CS3 (which must be patched to the latest version). Any new features, like conditional text, used in CS4 will be lost, and text is likely to reflow if you edit due to changes in the text engine.

Peter

[Tim Murray]

One would think that InDesign would be at least as smart as FrameMaker, where you get a message "Although this appears to be a FrameMaker file, it cannot be opened with this release of the product."

[A***@adobeforums.com]

Hi, I just downloaded the trial version of CS4 6.0, but the INDD file that I created cannot be viewed by my colleague who uses CS4 5.0. He says that the good-old RPLN plugins are needed:

WorldReady.rpln
conditionaltext.rpln

I have heard of this problem between CS4 and CS3, but never between versions of CS4.

Any advice to help us out?

Thanks!

[unknown]

The other person is using CS3.

Bob

[A***@adobeforums.com]

I get this error too... on a CS4 Server Installation ("... uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system"), and the plugins are the the same: worldready.rpln and conditionaltext.rpln.

The document has been a CS3 document, but converted and saved by CS4 to CS4 version.

Is there any explanation to why the two plug-ins reports as missing sometimes?

-- Andreas

[K***@adobeforums.com]

Same issue. Questions going back a few months and no solution gives me the warm fuzzies.

File was likely originally a CS3 and may go back further created on the PC side. I then had it opened in CS4 on the PC and then moved to MAC. I get same messages and can not open file from InDesign. What worked for me was to close InDesign and open from the file itself.

This workaround seems to work but...tried Save As and that still gets me nowhere. I think this is called a bug when you have a file created by a company's product that it can not itself open. Seems like a pretty glaring problem to me. Any hope of getting it solved?

[P***@adobeforums.com]

File a bug report here: <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform> and be sure to offer to send in the problem file for analysis.

Peter

[D***@adobeforums.com]

It's really terrible. This morning I would like to open my document of diploma work (InDesign CS3 Version 5.0.4) and I get this error, too.

("... uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system"), and the plugins are the the same: worldready.rpln and conditionaltext.rpln.

What can I do? I'm desperated.

Thank you for helping me.

Daniela

[P***@adobeforums.com]

Daniela,

It sounds like your file was viewed and saved in CS4 the last time, and now you are trying to open it in CS3 again. If you email just the .indd file to me at spammercatch at comcast dot net I will take a look and export back to .inx for you, so it can be opened on CS3.

Peter

[n***@gmail.com]

Post by S***@adobeforums.com
I have InDesign CS 3 version 5.0.4, Windows XP, on a PC. I created a book using several chapters for a 200+ manual. When I left work on Wednesday, 12/31/08, all files were fine. I did not change anything that I am aware of.
This morning I came in, opened the INDB and most chapters had the warning triangle beside them. When I clicked on it, I got the message the plug-in was missing. I chose the option to open it anyway, but it would not open. Please, please, please tell me there is a quick fix to this.
My customer is waiting as I write this for me to send her an updated PDF of the book for her to review.

I have exactly the same problem. It is clear that Adobe is interested in software updates that cause their users to have to pay large fees for upgrades. Wow. I really do not like this company.