Cross-Reference PLN missing

I created a Users Guide using InDesign CS2, today I was asked to edit the Users Guide and make some changes due to a software upgrade, no problem, I thought.



When I opened the book file I get a Missing Plug-ins dialog box with

Cross Refence PLN in the box at the top and the statement below.



''The document ''Users Guide Name'' uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system. Do you want to open anyway?



I did not install this plugin in CS2 and the document was created from scratch in CS2. Did CS2 have this plug-in that is not available in CS3. I cannot create an acrobat book file to send to the printer because of this mysterious plug-in, I can create an acrobat file for each chapter individually and join them. But where did this plug-in come from and how do I get it out of my document. If I can't delete it, where do I get it.



I just upgraded my personal Design Premium Creative Suite 3 to CS4, are there plugins in CS3 that are not available in CS4?
Cross-Reference PLN missing
I think you might be misinterpreting what happened. It sounds like you were trying to open a CS3 document with CS2. Did you open from within the application or by double-clicking?



Dave
Cross-Reference PLN missing
I don't find a Cross Reference plugin in either CS3 or CS4. Is it possible this was edited by someone with a third-party cross-reference plugin?



Have you actually tried to open anyway? There's a chance the file will open if it isn't from a later version, and if it does you should export to .inx and open that. If the plugin wasn't used the reference will be removed.

It opens perfectly without any problem, it just pops the warning box up that I am missing the Crossreference PLN. The document was converted from CS2 but there was no such plugin in it either. No one can edit the Users Guide, just me.



The only headache it creates is that I cannot create a pdf of the whole book for the printer at once, just chapter by chapter then combine them in a pdf. If I try to combine the book as a whole it tells me it can't because it is missing the cross-refence plugin.



I had the same plugin message appear to me when I was going to update the Maintenance chapter of another one of our analyzers this morning.



When I accessed the CS2 version of the file CS3 converted it and I have not had any problem with it until now.

Send it through .inx. If the plugin wasn't actually used (i.e. it was edited on a system on which the plugin was installed, but not used to create a cross-reference) that should remove any reference to it and stop the warnings.