Category Archives: Recipes

Using Lightning Brain FrameReporter

Posted on January 15, 2009 by kris

Lightning Brain FrameReporter is a US$29.00 plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4. In this recipe, we’ll highlight each of the individual LB FrameReporter tidbits, and explain what they could be useful for. If you want to follow … Continue reading →

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Making Mac OS X launch the correct version of InDesign or InCopy

Posted on November 13, 2008 by kris

InDesignProxy v1.0.7 CS5 Support? InDesignProxy only supports InDesign versions between CS and CS4. If you need CS5 support, you’ll need to upgrade to Soxy (‘Son of InDesignProxy’), which supports InDesign CS5, as well as Illustrator, PDF files, Photoshop and Illustrator … Continue reading →

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Using StoryTweaker to translate an InDesign document into another language

Posted on November 2, 2008 by kris

A test version of StoryTweaker can be downloaded here: https://www.rorohiko.com/storytweaker An easy way to get some good understanding of how StoryTweaker ‘thinks’ is to follow along as someone puts the program through its paces. StoryTweaker can be used in a … Continue reading →

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FileMaker 7.x or 8.x, Leopard and Instant Web Publishing (IWP)

Posted on November 1, 2008 by kris

(Added note 6-Nov-2008: Please check the added notes at the end of the article. Yes, FM 8.x works too, and I’ve also added a way to do the patching much faster) Recently, I was testing some ideas with various versions … Continue reading →

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How to add InDesign page item adornments using scripting

Posted on October 15, 2008 by kris

Ingredients – Adobe® InDesign® CS or higher (the APIDToolAssistant plug-in is available for InDesign CS, and higher, Mac and Windows). – A licensed copy or a demo version of APIDToolAssistant 1.0.46 or higher. It also works with unlicensed versions, but … Continue reading →

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