Category Archives: News

FrameReporter beta released

Posted on October 24, 2008 by kris

We have a beta of a new plug-in available – Lightning Brain FrameReporter. It attaches a little non-printing label to any currently selected frames, with relevant info about the frame – saves you from having to hunt for that same info elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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GREPGrokker updated

Posted on August 30, 2008 by kris

We’ve got version 3.0 of GREPGrokker available – click here to check it out. This one’s main new feature is that it uses a brand new GREP engine we’ve developed, which allows it to emulate InDesign’s GREP functionality much better than … Continue reading →

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GREPGrokker updated

Posted on August 3, 2008 by kris

There’s a new GREPGrokker version available – click here to check it out. Main new features: you can now see live text replacements, and there is a new ‘InDesign GREP Dialect’ simulation mode. Click here to try it out.

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MagnetoGuides; Rorohiko is now an AATC

Posted on July 23, 2008 by kris

There’s a new version of MagnetoGuides available – click here for more info! We’d also like to introduce the alpha release of Lightning Brain GREPGrokker – a free on-line tutor teaching GREP in a visual, interactive way. It’s a work in progress, and … Continue reading →

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Place and Scale updated to version 1.0.6

Posted on July 18, 2008 by kris

An old-time favorite, Place and Scale, has been updated to version 1.0.6 – it offers improved CS3 support, and more importantly, it can now be enabled or disabled as needed via the preferences dialog. More info and download by clicking here.

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Navigate InDesign layout using your keyboard

Posted on July 3, 2008 by kris

LightningBrain MagnetoGuides has been upgraded to version 1.0.3 and has now officialy been released. This is one of those things where you wonder why this is not a standard part of InDesign – once you’ve seen it it is hard … Continue reading →

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MagnetoGuides Beta Released

Posted on June 16, 2008 by kris

We’ve released a beta for a new tool, aimed at people who need to do a lot of work on structured layouts – for example, people doing paper forms design. The tool is called LightningBrain MagnetoGuides and a fully featured, time … Continue reading →

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Color2Gray Clipping Paths Bug Fixed

Posted on June 15, 2008 by kris

We received a bug report for Lightning Brain Color2Gray with regards to images with clipping paths in CS3 – in some cases, the clipping path was turned ‘inside out’ when printing. That should be fixed with version 1.0.9 of LB Color2Gray – … Continue reading →

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Sudoku Generator new feature added

Posted on June 3, 2008 by kris

The Lightning Brain Sudoku Generator now has support for ‘covering’ of empty puzzle cells. Click here to download the latest version.

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TextExporter and StylePainter updated

Posted on May 18, 2008 by kris

Some slight improvements were made to the Lightning Brain Text Exporter (correction of the automation samples) and Lightning Brain StylePainter (more dependable ‘painting’ of the styles).

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