Posts Tagged ‘InDesign’

What’s a Plugin?

As a software user, you might hear a lot of different terms: plugin, script, extension, add-on, etc. It might be confusing as to what is what, and which is better. What you need, etc. In this article, we will try to make some sense out of all the options.

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Edited: July 27th, 2010

New Improved Column Flow

In a recent post we kind of slipped in a whole bunch of improvements. The biggest one is probably Column Flow.

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Edited: June 17th, 2010

In-Tools plugins now CS5 Compatible

We’ve been hard at work on some really exciting new developments, but we’ve taken some time to make sure all our plugins were updated for CS5 compatibility.

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Edited: June 16th, 2010

Formatting Tools 1.0.5

Version 1.0.5 of Formatting Tools adds two new features: “Create Hyperlinks from URLs”, and “Change Case by Style”.

These are both very commonly requested features, and we’re really happy to finally getting them added. This brings the total number of really useful utilities included in Formatting Tools up to seven. (“Conditional Paragraph Style Changer”, “Style Between Delimiters”, “Create One and Two Line Styles”, “Restyle Consecutive Paragraphs”, “Apply Next Styles”, “Create Hyperlinks From URLs”, and “Change Case By Style”. (more…)

Edited: April 11th, 2010

FiddleScript: InDesign Scripting Simplified

Dealing with scripts can be a little daunting for a lot of users of InDesign. Once you get the hang of it, it’s not that hard, but you need to create files in the correct format, name them with the correct extension, and save them in the correct place. We’ve created a script which we hope will make life a lot easier.

FiddleScript — Your tool to fiddle with scripts (without having to fiddle too much). (more…)

Edited: March 3rd, 2010

Line Numbering

Did you ever wish InDesign had the ability to number your lines? Well now it does with a little script! (more…)

Edited: March 1st, 2010

Power Headers 2.0.2 update

We’ve updated Power Headers to version 2.0.2!

This update fixes various bugs, and all users should update.

Please download the update from the downloads page.

Edited: February 25th, 2010

Quick Reference Script

Taking the pain out of cross reference creation…

Quick Reference is a script created to simplify the process of creating cross references. Thanks to David Blatner on his helpful suggestions when we were creating this script. You can read more about Quick Reference on InDesign Secrets here. (more…)

Edited: February 24th, 2010

Fun With Text Fitting in InDesign

One of the most tedious jobs is fitting text to the space it is supposed to take up. A little bigger, a little smaller, wait! the text is different sizes… sigh… Well, here’s a few scripts to help with a couple of different situations…

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Edited: February 18th, 2010

Scale Graphics Script

The issue has come up quite a few times that users of InDesign need to scale placed graphics en-mass. We’ve written quite a few script-lets over the years, but we finally decided to create a UI which gives all the options generally needed in an easy-to-use format.

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Edited: February 17th, 2010