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Thoughts on Extending the Creative Suite

Posted by: Harbs on: October 16th, 2011 | 6 Comments

Adobe must have the most extendable pro applications on the planet, and I think that has a good deal to do with their success.

Here’s just some musings on the methods available: Read more


Use Power Headers to Automatically Override Master Frames

Posted by: Harbs on: October 11th, 2011 | No Comments

An issue just came up on the InDesign Talk Google group:

How do you get content on master pages to show up in a TOC (Table of Contents)? Read more


Convert Colors to Grayscale in InDesign

Posted by: Harbs on: October 6th, 2011 | 20 Comments

There was recently a discussion on the InDesign forums where John Hawkinson was trying to find a way to get grayscale values using the eyedropper tool.
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In-Tools Plugins Now CS5.5 Compatible

Posted by: Harbs on: May 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Last week we uploaded new installers for all our products.

The big news of the new installers is CS5.5 compatibility. All our commercial products have been updated to be compatible with CS5.5.

Additionally, we further streamlined our activation process. Until now, InDesign had to be restarted after activating for our products to be fully licensed. We also had some issues with the activation failing for certain users due to permissions issues. Starting with our newest versions activations should be an instant one-click process and the permissions issues that some user had should now be history.

We also packed bug fixes into many of our products, so we recommend that all users update.


What’s with back-save to earlier versions of InDesign?

Posted by: Harbs on: April 11th, 2011 | 34 Comments

InDesign can not open files saved by later versions of the application.

This has been a source of a lot of grumbling over the years. I’ve heard all kinds of silly theories as to why this is so — including one that Adobe does this on purpose to “force” you to upgrade. Conspiracy theories are exciting and everything, but there’s really no conspiracies related to InDesign…
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