Category Archives: APIDToolAssistant

How To Extend InDesign Text Styling Range To Include Punctuation

Posted on June 21, 2013 by kris

Recently, I received an interesting question: would it be possible to use our StylePainter freebie to exert some GREP magic and judiciously extend the style range of a particular style? This was to clean up some text, were some styling … Continue reading →

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Rorohiko Plug-Ins Updated For CS6.

Posted on May 28, 2012 by kris

We have a brand new CS6 version of APIDToolAssistant, a core component of many of our tools. As a result, a range of our tools is now available for CS6: TextExporter (https://www.rorohiko.com/TextExporter) FrameReporter (https://www.rorohiko.com/FrameReporter) MagnetoGuides (https://www.rorohiko.com/MagnetoGuides) StoryParker (https://www.rorohiko.com/StoryParker) TextStitch (https://www.rorohiko.com/TextStitch) … Continue reading →

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Our Plug-ins Work Fine With InDesign CS5.5 version 7.5.1

Posted on June 20, 2011 by kris

In case you’re wondering – we had updated most of our plug-ins a while back, shortly after InDesign CS5.5 was released, and made CS5.5-specific versions available. As long as you make sure to install the CS5.5 versions of our plug-ins … Continue reading →

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TextExporter 3.1 With Support For InDesign/InCopy CS5.5 Released

Posted on May 16, 2011 by kris

TextExporter allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, grouped into a natural reading order. Even if text frames are not threaded together, the exported RTF file will have all the text … Continue reading →

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Recipe: How to Age Photos in InDesign Without Photoshop

Posted on July 12, 2010 by kris

A short article how to achieve an ‘aged’ look-and-feel using recent pictures in just a few clicks. To read more, click here.

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Age Photos in InDesign With Color2Gray

Posted on July 12, 2010 by kris

This article is a little how-to about making pictures look ‘aged’ without needing to use Photoshop. First the end-result: here is an example image, part of an InDesign page. Below, I’ll explain how I did this without needing Photoshop, and … Continue reading →

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InDesign CS5: TextExporter 3.0 Introduces CS5 Support

Posted on June 6, 2010 by kris

TextExporter is a US$ 19.00 plug-in for InDesign and InCopy CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 or CS5. It allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, grouped into a natural reading order. Even … Continue reading →

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FrameReporter Beta with CS5 Support Available.

Posted on May 18, 2010 by kris

We’ve just released a beta version (1.0.9b0) of our popular FrameReporter plug-in with support for InDesign CS5. We expect the beta-test period to last until the end of June 2010 – during that period, you can purchase a (per InDesign … Continue reading →

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Improvements to FrameReporter and APID ToolAssistant

Posted on April 11, 2010 by kris

We’ve just released a new version of APID ToolAssistant – 1.0.48; click here for more info and the download links. By itself, APID ToolAssistant does not ‘do’ anything apparent. Instead it assists other plug-ins to do their job. You have … Continue reading →

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LayerLifter 1.0.1 Released – Adds Document-wide Layer Nudging And Shifting.

Posted on October 29, 2009 by kris

Our LayerLifter freebie is a simple plug-in for Adobe InDesign that offers an alternative method for moving page items between layers, instead of using the InDesign Layers palette. With LayerLifter, the names of the document layers appear in the context menu of any selected … Continue reading →

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