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Has anyone been confronted with this issue. Hi, as well as most true designers / artists use products such as Adobe Photoshop CS2. So say First-Edition or Downling Graphics are still working with Photoshop 9. What do you do?
Am I going to be forced to purchase it? Do I have to tell my designers they will have to downgrade, and force them to use / purchase it as well? You cannot open CS2 files with any Photoshop prior to CS2 to my knowledge. What's the solution?
Your designers have the option to save it into an older format. You just need to let them know, and hopefully they're computer literate enough to know how to do it.
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It is my understanding that you can work in CS and after all the work is finished, you can take the file and save it to basically any version below the version you are using. However if you supplier uses an earlier version, it can only open files from the same version or older. So, you should not have to purchase the older version (even if you can find it). Maybe someone else can confirm this.
It's pretty bad though....major companies should have cutting edge software (or if they don't, don't tell their customers....they should get it converted themselves.....asking for things in lower versions (especially when those versions have been out close to a years) is patently unprofessional.
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First and foremost, provided your software is a commercial release (as opposed to a beta) it is never too new. Theirs is too old, and the inconvenience they're causing you in making your work compatible for them is their fault. It may not be a particularly big deal, but it annoys me when people are made to feel like they're doing something wrong for keeping current.
I won't name the company, but I was shocked that a very large imprintables company recently announced on their blog that they had upgraded to CS2, like being that far behind was something to be proud of. Your local small printer may be a version behind, and fair enough, but a large business shouldn't be. No service provider should ever be more than one version behind - there is a different standard for those who are producing work (i.e. graphic designers, home users, etc.) and those who are reproducing others work.
Anyway, rant over.
As others have said, you can save in an old version, which normally doesn't cause any problems. So it's not too much of an ordeal if you're made aware of it in advance.
If you are using any special effects you might lose them. Like drop shadows in illustrator, or vectors in Photoshop. But usually you have to go back quite a few versions to do that.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are using any special effects you might lose them. Like drop shadows in illustrator, or vectors in Photoshop. But usually you have to go back quite a few versions to do that.
I agree. Depending on the effects used the art might need to be modified to work for the lower version. This goes with any professional graphic software.
So your software is too new? 
