Category Archives: Windows

PluginInstaller 1.0.0: install Adobe® Creative Cloud® enhancements in a few clicks

Posted on November 10, 2026 by kris

PluginInstaller 1.0.0 is out. It is the free app we use to deliver our tools for Adobe® InDesign® and other Adobe® creative apps: browse what is available, click Install, and PluginInstaller downloads the tool and puts it in the right … Continue reading →

Posted in 2026, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Windows | Leave a comment

JSXGetURL PL: set curl options from ExtendScript

Posted on April 25, 2024 by kris

JSXGetURL PL enhances ExtendScript in any Adobe® Creative Cloud® app, to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. JSXGetURL PL has been updated to use curl 8.7.1, OpenSSL 3.3.0, zlib … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024, Mac OS X, News, Recipes, Scripters & Developers, Windows | Tagged Adobe, asset, Cloud, Creative, curl, ExtendScript, http, https, remote, Script, Server, URL | Comments Off

ZXPSignCmd/ExtensionManager alternative: PluginInstaller handles both JSX and CEP

Posted on April 25, 2024 by kris

We added support for CEP into PluginInstaller, a tool that is part of Creative Developer Tools (CRDT). If you have either an ExtendScript script, or CEP extension software that you want to protect/track/monetize…, make sure to check this out. PluginInstaller handles the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Recipes, Scripters & Developers, Uncategorized, Windows | Tagged Adobe, CEP, CEP Extension, Code Sign, ExtendScript, Extension Manager, Install, JSXBIN, Script, ZXPSignCmd | Comments Off

JSXGetURL PL for ExtendScript

Posted on March 25, 2024 by kris

JSXGetURL PL enhances ExtendScript to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. It works with any of the Adobe® Creative Cloud® apps that support ExtendScript. We also have a special … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Windows | Tagged access URL, ExtendScript, ftp, http, https, InDesign, InDesign Server, Server, sftp, URL | Comments Off

SizeLabels PL

Posted on March 25, 2024 by kris

SizeLabels PL is a free script (with optional add-in features) that will add printable labels with the frame size next to every frame in an Adobe® InDesign® document. The added labels are small text frames which reside on their own … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InDesign, Mac OS X, Windows | Tagged Adobe, ExtendScript, InDesign, Label, Layout, Printable, Script | Comments Off

Access URLs from ExtendScript with Creative Cloud and InDesign Server

Posted on December 29, 2023 by kris

We just released JSXGetURL and JSXGetURL for InDesign Server. JSXGetURL enhances ExtendScript to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. JSXGetURL is meant to work with any Adobe Creative Cloud application … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, Windows | Tagged access URL, ExtendScript, ftp, http, https, InDesign, InDesign Server, Server, sftp, URL | Comments Off

Soxy

Posted on December 16, 2019 by kris

Sadly enough, Soxy is now end-of-life and won’t be upgraded or updated any further. Soxy is a 32-bit application; it won’t run on macOS Catalina. The last few years, the cost of building an update to Soxy for every update … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Soxy, Windows | Comments Off

Replace Words With Images In InDesign

Posted on March 11, 2019 by kris

Our free Swimmer script allows you to do a search-and-replace and find certain patterns or words in your InDesign file, and replace them with anchored image frames. The Swimmer script has been updated to version 1.0.5 and now supports object … Continue reading →

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Hyperlinks on Text via search-and-replace: more features!

Posted on March 6, 2019 by kris

The popular GryperLink script for InDesign has been enhanced so it can now also match the paragraph style name, character style name or font name assigned to the text before creating the hyperlink. Download and read more here: https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/use-indesign-find-and-replace-to-assign-hyperlinks-to-text/

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InDesign CC 2019 support status

Posted on October 24, 2018 by kris

InDesign CC 2019 is supported by the following updates. If you don’t have a Personal Activation Code or Workgroup Activation Code, you will probably need to purchase a new code to activate. Without activation, the following downloads will give you … Continue reading →

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