InDesign file version

Check the creator version of Adobe InDesign file (document, template, book and library), for example, InDesign CS6, InDesign 2023, etc.

File Formats

Suffix	fMagicBytes	Hex	Description	Version
.indd	444f43554d454e54	DOCUMENT	InDesign document file	>=InDesign2.0
.indt	444f43554d454e54		InDesign template file
.indb	424f4f4b424f4f4b	BOOKBOOK	InDesign book file
.indl	4c49425241525934	LIBRARY4	InDesign library file	>=InDesign CS2
	4c49425241525932	LIBRARY2		InDesign2.0 / CS

Structure:

P36, https://github.com/adobe/xmp-docs/blob/master/XMPSpecifications/XMPSpecificationPart3.pdf

Version

Usage

import os
from InDesignFile import InDesignFile

myInDesignFile = InDesignFile()
#
p = os.path.join("file_samples", "2020.indd")
print(myInDesignFile.get_version(p))  # ((15, 1), 'Adobe InDesign 2020')
#
p = os.path.join("file_samples", "1.indd")
print(myInDesignFile.get_version(p))  # (None, 'Not a InDesign file')
print(myInDesignFile.get_version(p, check_fGUID=False)) # ((1, 0), 'Adobe InDesign 1.0')

GUI (wxPython)

File Samples

*Versions 1.0 and 1.5 do not support indb(book) and indl(library) files.

App Name	Version	.indd	.indt	.indb	.indl
Adobe InDesign 1.0	1.0	✓	✓	-	-
Adobe InDesign 1.5	1.5	✓	✓	-	-
Adobe InDesign 2.0	2.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS	3.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS2	4.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS3	5.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS4	6.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS5	7.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS5.5	7.5	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CS6	8.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CC	9.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CC 2014	10.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CC 2015	11.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CC 2017	12.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CC 2018	13.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign CC 2019	14.0	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign 2020	15.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign 2021	16.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign 2022	17.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign 2023	18.x	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe InDesign 2024	19.x	✓	✓	✓	✓