Category Archives: Recipes

Rorohiko TV

Posted on July 30, 2013 by kris

We’ve collected our loose video collection into a single YouTube channel, which should make it easier to find them. Go here to check it out: http://rorohiko.tv At present, we have a bunch of tutorials available for Tada QR! and ePubCrawler. Also a tutorial … Continue reading →

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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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Export All Hyphenation Points With ePubCrawler

Posted on December 12, 2012 by kris

ePubCrawler 0.2.4 or higher has an interesting feature: it can find all the hyphenation points in all the words in a document, and convert them to discretionary hyphens in the XHTML output. ePubCrawler is our ‘work-in-progress’ of a tool for … Continue reading →

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ePubCrawler 0.2.0 InDesign to Fixed Layout EPUB converter now available

Posted on July 30, 2012 by kris

We’ve again updated ePubCrawler, our InDesign-to-Fixed Layout EPUB tool: ePubCrawler 0.2.0 and a version history is available from https://www.rorohiko.com/ePubCrawler ePubCrawler is gradually becoming more and more powerful, and if you’re serious about Fixed Layout EPUB, you need to check it out. ePubCrawler … Continue reading →

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Son of CSSGeometry: ePubCrawler. Generate Fixed Layout ePub from InDesign.

Posted on June 14, 2012 by kris

ePubCrawler is a tool to help you create fixed layout ePub from an InDesign document. It’s work in-progress. Version 0.0.5 is out; it generates a skeleton ePub folder, css files, xhtml files, links to images… It’s not a full ePub … 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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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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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: 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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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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