Category Archives: InDesign

Meet us face to face, May 12-14, Seattle

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kris

Invest a few days of your time, gain them back a thousandfold. Spend a few days in Seattle at The InDesign Print and ePublishing Conference, and quickly gain that time back by using your newly acquired knowledge. http://indesignsecretslive.com/conference.html David Blatner and … Continue reading →

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Soxy 1.1.0 has been released for Mac OS X and Windows.

Posted on February 13, 2010 by joris

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer. Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might … Continue reading →

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InDesign ExtendScript Toolkit and Soxy

Posted on January 27, 2010 by kris

If you design and create ExtendScripts targeting Adobe InDesign for other people, like we often do, you probably also need Soxy. Our customers use a diverse range of InDesign versions (CS, CS2, CS3, CS4), so we need to make sure … Continue reading →

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Workshop – Getting Started With The InDesign SDK

Posted on January 20, 2010 by kris

If you’re involved in automation around the Adobe Creative Suite, you need to mark the week of May 3 to May 7, 2010 on your calendar – there’s another Adobe Creative Suite Developer Summit (aka CSBU Developer Summit) coming up … Continue reading →

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Soxy 1.0.7 is now available for Mac OS X

Posted on January 13, 2010 by joris

We have added a new feature to help work around a Finder issue in Mac OS X Snow Leopard which occurs when you double-click an InDesign document that has a ‘#’ character in its name. Read more about it on … Continue reading →

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TextExporter 2.1.3 Available

Posted on January 3, 2010 by kris

TextExporter is a plug-in for InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4. It allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, while following a natural reading order. Text files and InDesign Tagged Text … Continue reading →

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How and why to use Script Labels in InDesign

Posted on November 17, 2009 by kris

In this blog post, I want to talk a bit about the secretive Script Label in InDesign. You might have noticed the Script Label palette, and wondered what it was used for – it’s under Windows – Automation – Script … Continue reading →

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ImageLibraryLoader 1.0.7 Released

Posted on November 4, 2009 by kris

ImageLibraryLoader is a free plug-in for InDesign which allows you to quickly set up a floating palette filled with images from one or more designated folders. In many cases, it is much faster than Adobe Bridge, as it uses standard … Continue reading →

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TextExporter 2.1.1 Available

Posted on November 3, 2009 by kris

TextExporter is a free plug-in for InDesign that export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file (RTF, InDesign Tagged Text or plain text). The recent upgrades worked a lot faster than before when used with InDesign/InCopy … Continue reading →

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FrameReporter 1.0.6 Released

Posted on November 2, 2009 by kris

FrameReporter uses little non-printing labels to display interesting info about selected page items, right in your work area. Normally InDesign makes you click around and find various palettes to dig up the info – which disrupts your train of thought. … Continue reading →

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