Category Archives: 2024

Fight Panel-Fatigue in Adobe® InDesign® with FrameReporter

Posted on October 21, 2024 by kris

If you’ve ever felt bogged down by panel overload in Adobe® InDesign®, you’re not alone. Designers and typesetters frequently juggle multiple panels just to keep track of basic object properties. This constant toggling can disrupt your flow and slow down … Continue reading →

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Switching to PluginInstaller

Posted on October 6, 2024 by kris

We’re in the process of changing our activation/licensing/purchasing systems to use PluginInstaller. You can read about and download PluginInstaller here: https://PluginInstaller.com As the switch-over is quite involved, it will take a few weeks before all of our plug-ins have been … Continue reading →

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Free Script For Use With Adobe® InDesign®: Generate Live 24hr Tide Charts

Posted on September 30, 2024 by kris

TideChart PL is a free, fully functional script which also serves as a demo of how JSXGetURL PL can be used to render live data into an Adobe® InDesign® document. TideChart PL is ready-to-run and comes with an embedded copy … Continue reading →

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Revamping our activation system: PluginInstaller

Posted on May 29, 2024 by kris

We’re Revamping Our Software Activation System Over the years, we’ve been dedicated to providing high-quality scripts, plugins, and extensions to enhance your Adobe® Creative Cloud® experience. We appreciate the support and loyalty you’ve shown us, especially those who have been … Continue reading →

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Export All Text From An Adobe® InDesign® Document to MS Word

Posted on May 16, 2024 by kris

We’ve released TextExporter PL 5, an updated version of TextExporter PL for Adobe® InDesign®. The new version relies on PluginInstaller for licensing and activation. No more fiddling with activation files. From within PluginInstaller, you can download and install TextExporter PL, … Continue reading →

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JSXGetURL PL: set curl options from ExtendScript

Posted on April 25, 2024 by kris

JSXGetURL PL enhances ExtendScript in any Adobe® Creative Cloud® app, to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. JSXGetURL PL has been updated to use curl 8.7.1, OpenSSL 3.3.0, zlib … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024, Mac OS X, News, Recipes, Scripters & Developers, Windows | Tagged Adobe, asset, Cloud, Creative, curl, ExtendScript, http, https, remote, Script, Server, URL | Comments Off

ZXPSignCmd/ExtensionManager alternative: PluginInstaller handles both JSX and CEP

Posted on April 25, 2024 by kris

We added support for CEP into PluginInstaller, a tool that is part of Creative Developer Tools (CRDT). If you have either an ExtendScript script, or CEP extension software that you want to protect/track/monetize…, make sure to check this out. PluginInstaller handles the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Recipes, Scripters & Developers, Uncategorized, Windows | Tagged Adobe, CEP, CEP Extension, Code Sign, ExtendScript, Extension Manager, Install, JSXBIN, Script, ZXPSignCmd | Comments Off

JSXGetURL PL for ExtendScript

Posted on March 25, 2024 by kris

JSXGetURL PL enhances ExtendScript to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. It works with any of the Adobe® Creative Cloud® apps that support ExtendScript. We also have a special … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Windows | Tagged access URL, ExtendScript, ftp, http, https, InDesign, InDesign Server, Server, sftp, URL | Comments Off

SizeLabels PL

Posted on March 25, 2024 by kris

SizeLabels PL is a free script (with optional add-in features) that will add printable labels with the frame size next to every frame in an Adobe® InDesign® document. The added labels are small text frames which reside on their own … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InDesign, Mac OS X, Windows | Tagged Adobe, ExtendScript, InDesign, Label, Layout, Printable, Script | Comments Off

Access URLs from ExtendScript with Creative Cloud and InDesign Server

Posted on December 29, 2023 by kris

We just released JSXGetURL and JSXGetURL for InDesign Server. JSXGetURL enhances ExtendScript to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. JSXGetURL is meant to work with any Adobe Creative Cloud application … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, Windows | Tagged access URL, ExtendScript, ftp, http, https, InDesign, InDesign Server, Server, sftp, URL | Comments Off

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