Category Archives: Scripters & Developers

Batch-process Multiple Documents. Enable Drag/Drop For InDesign ExtendScripts.

Posted on August 13, 2012 by kris

We’ve just released a beta for a new tool called Batcher. Batcher can enhance a wide range of existing InDesign ExtendScripts (CS3 and upwards), and make them work with drag/dropped documents, book files or even whole folders. Instead of the tedium … Continue reading →

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InDesign Text Frame Page Geometry to CSS

Posted on February 10, 2012 by kris

Important: The next generation of the CSSGeometry script is now called ePubCrawler. CSSGeometry is retiring, and will not be updated any more. ePubCrawler does everything CSSGeometry does, and much more. Read all about it here: https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/manuals/fixed-layout-epub-assistant-in-indesign-epubcrawler/ About CSSGeometry: A little while back, Her Geekness … Continue reading →

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Convert Web Pages to Editable InDesign Layouts

Posted on August 22, 2011 by kris

We’ve just released an early beta of our new FramedWeb tool. FramedWeb supports Adobe InDesign CS3 an upwards. Further below a sample of what it does – we started out with a text frame that contained the URL of the … Continue reading →

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Better Auto-Fitting of Images in an Automated InDesign Workflow

Posted on April 11, 2011 by kris

Here’s something for scripters and automators – if you build automated workflows with InDesign Server, this might be useful to you. It’s a blog post that explains how to achieve better auto-fitting of images onto a layout in an automated … Continue reading →

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LikeFindsLike for InDesign CS5 Now Available!

Posted on December 20, 2010 by kris

LikeFindsLike helps you quickly select a bunch of similar items that are scattered all over a page or a spread. Instead of having to painstakingly shift-click-click-click, you select a single frame, and then use the Select All Similar function (preferrably … Continue reading →

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Color2Gray Updated to Version 2.0.1

Posted on December 20, 2010 by kris

Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color photos (TIFF, JPEG) to grayscale without modifying the original color image. The converted pictures only render on the black (K) plate. Color2Gray has been updated to version 2.0.1 to fix occasional crashes when … Continue reading →

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CS5: Cope With Page Clutter in Adobe InDesign

Posted on July 20, 2010 by kris

StoryParker helps you to efficiently deal with page clutter. You can select one or more items and ‘park’ them on the pasteboard; StoryParker keeps track of their original position. When you ‘unpark’ them they remember where they came from and … Continue reading →

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InDesign CS5: TextStitch 1.0.5 with CS5 support released

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kris

TextStitch is a popular tool which helps you with threading or separating text frames in InDesign CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 – all this without disturbing the look and feel of the page. There are three main functions: auto-stitch, quick … 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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