Category Archives: Recipes

Draw Ukulele or Guitar Chord Charts With InDesign

Posted on June 15, 2016 by kris

I love playing guitar and ukulele, but I find the chord charts found on the internet often difficult to read while playing. The chord diagrams are located above the lyrics, and I have a hard time reading both lyrics and chord … Continue reading →

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For Developers: Faster Debugging Of Adobe Extensions

Posted on February 3, 2015 by kris

For people developing Extensions for the Adobe Creative Suite: how to get rid of the annoying click on ‘index.html’ each time you want to start debugging an Adobe Extension. http://coppieters.nz/?p=63

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InDesign To Markdown Export – Crawler.ID2MD

Posted on December 23, 2014 by kris

The first member of a range of InDesign export scripts has become available. Crawler.ID2MD provides InDesign-to-Markdown export, with a best-effort layout approximation. Crawler.ID2MD is highly configurable. As of today, the software is available for testing and purchase here: https://www.rorohiko.com/Crawler.ID2MD Installing … Continue reading →

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KCCSizer released. Drag/Drop JPEG Files To Fit In 1920x1080px, < 1MB

Posted on November 28, 2014 by kris

KCCSizer is a small free tool for photographers. It downscales one or more dropped JPEG files so they fit in an area of 1920 x 1080 pixels, and are compressed to a file size of 1MB or less. You can achieve the … Continue reading →

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Replace Words By Images And Vice Versa.

Posted on June 24, 2014 by kris

Swimmer. Replace words with images. CreativeWow! One of the sessions at PePcon 2014 was called CreativeWow! Sneak Peeks by Creative Developers. http://www.pepcon.com/session/creativewow-sneak-peeks-creative-developers-2014/ The aim: a meeting of minds between graphic designers and creative software developers. Script Challenge! Attendees to PePcon were … Continue reading →

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Add Printable Swatch Samples To An InDesign Document

Posted on May 4, 2014 by kris

SwatchWatch is a free InDesign script we’ve created to automatically add a grid of printable swatch samples at the end of an InDesign document. Supports InDesign CS5 and above. More info in this case study: https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/swatchwatcher-case-study/

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Batcher 0.0.5: Automatically Batch-Execute An InDesign Script On Many Files.

Posted on October 10, 2013 by kris

Batcher 0.0.5 has been released. With this tool, you can batch execute InDesign scripts. Batcher can take many existing InDesign scripts (.jsx files) and add batch processing features to them. Most of the time, there is no need for changes … Continue reading →

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Easily decompress EPUB, edit it, and recompress.

Posted on October 8, 2013 by kris

eCanCrusher is a simple drag/drop utility to recompress and decompress EPUB folders/directory structures. It converts folder into an .epub file and vice versa. We have both Mac and Windows versions available. Download links on this page: https://www.rorohiko.com/ePubCrawler Look under the heading … Continue reading →

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Easily Edit Stacking/Reading Order Of Page Items In InDesign

Posted on September 17, 2013 by kris

We’ve just released FrameReporter 1.1.4, which adds a new info-label called ‘z-order’. Download the latest and greatest here – it supports InDesign CS4 and upwards: https://www.rorohiko.com/framereporter On this page you’ll find a fully functional, time-limited demo version. You can try … Continue reading →

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PlaceAutoSynchronizer: Live Text And Image Links In InDesign

Posted on August 20, 2013 by kris

We’ve finally updated our PlaceAutoSynchronizer freebie to support InDesign CC (as well as CS6, CS5.5,… all the way down to CS). PlaceAutoSynchronizer adds a ‘live link’ feature to Adobe InDesign: as soon as the linked image or text file on … Continue reading →

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