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Adobe InDesign trial CS4 is a utility for breaking down the barriers between online and offline publishing. With powerful new features and streamlined workflow, you can now deliver sophisticated and engaging layouts as easily onscreen as in print. Create persuasive personalized content and tailored long documents using fewer steps and taking advantage of new enhancements--inspired by customers--that provide fluid and efficient workflow.

Major Features:

1. Tight integration with other Adobe Creative Suite 4 components includes new cross-product support; you can now, for just one example, open InDesign layouts directly in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software with page design and typography preserved. Use InDesign CS4 as your layout tool of choice to deliver dynamic, interactive content across media.
2. With Adobe InDesign CS4, you can:
   • Create rich interactive documents;
   • Build dynamic documents for playback in Adobe Flash Player
   • Create engaging PDF content that includes professional typography and top quality page design; explore an exciting new world that allows you to use your page-design skills to create rich interactive documents
   • Use richness
   • Interactivity to extend your existing brand
   • Capture new audiences, lower print and production costs
   • Ultimately deliver a more engaging reading experience
   • Add page transitions, rollovers, and buttons to your layouts in InDesign, and then publish directly as SWF files
   • Go further by exporting your InDesign layout to Adobe Flash CS4, where you can use the authoring power of Flash to create interactive publications.

Requirements: none

Sudoku for InDesign 1.0.10 has come as a handy program with the ability to generate one or more Sudoku puzzles directly into an InDesign CS/CS2/CS3 document - for example for your 'Puzzle Page', or to generate whole booklets with Sudoku puzzles. It is aimed at people who are publishing a newspaper, magazine, newsletter. You're in control of the look and feel of the generated Sudoku - and the generator takes care of actually building the puzzles for you.

Major Features:

1. No more copy-paste errors
2. Customizable difficulty level
3. Customizable look and feel of puzzles
   
4. Generation of multiple puzzles in a booklet
5. Solutions can be generated on same page or on separate pages
6. Can generate various symmetrical puzzles (user-selectable symmetry: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or a combination thereof).

Badia BigPicture for InDesign 4.0 is a useful utility designed as a perfect solution for managing graphics and picture links and Adobe InDesign.

With BigPicture, you get instant access to detailed image information, complete picture lists, a unique search and relink engine, plus powerful tools for updating, revealing, opening, renaming, replacing and moving multiple links.

Major Features:

1. Complete Picture Info
   • The info sidebar of BigPicture shows you all the attributes for the picture you selected. From default application, to picture status to embedded fonts, BigPicture gives you all the information you need at your fingertips.
   • In addition, you get quick access to handy tools for revealing the file in the Finder or document, displaying the full path, and renaming the picture file.
2. Task Panels: BigPicture 4.0 conveniently organizes all the tools in four task panels: Open, Search, Link, and Options. Switch to any panel with a click of the mouse, or click again to get them out of the way.
3. Automatic Search and Relink: The search engine of BigPicture quickly scans your hard drive or any mounted volume for missing pictures and then gives you the ability to relink them with any of the returned matches found. It can even relink additional missing images that are located in the same folder.
4. Personalized Picture List: The 14 columns of the picture list are now fully customizable. Choose from any of the 22 attributes available, organize them any way you like, and adjust the width of the columns. BigPicture will remember these settings for all future sessions.
5. Automatic Picture Swapping: Swap pictures that share similar names with a completely different folder. This allows quick switching back and forth between a folder with low resolution pictures and one with high resolution pictures, for example.
6. Edit Original Supercharged: You can open an image or group of images with their default application or any other application you choose. BigPicture will launch that application and open the pictures for you, ready for editing.
7. Quick Renaming: Renaming pictures is as easy as clicking on the picture name and typing the new name. BigPicture will rename the picture file in the Finder, update the document link, and change all the document occurrences of the same picture.

Enhancements:

• Improved speed: BigPicture 4.0 is 600% faster than BigPicture 3.0
• Redesigned user interface
• New Thumbnail View
• Modern and more stable Cocoa code
• New task panels: Open, Search, Link, Options
• Ability to open and hide any task panel
• Six new columns for list view
• Ability to select which attribute to display in each column
• Ability to change the size of list rows
• New attributes: Layer, Volume, Folder, Finder icon, Finder Label, Finder Kind
• Redesigned "Open With" functionality
• Improved Move/Copy/Collect tools
• Swapping images to folder now has the ability to match partial file names
• Resizable window that remembers all list and view settings between sessions
• Added list of embedded fonts in EPS files
• Optimized for InDesign CS4 and Mac OS X Leopard
• Many other improvements.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• QuarkXPress 4-8 or Adobe InDesign CS3-CS4. .
  

MagnetoGuides for Adobe InDesign 1.0.5 is a beneficial and easy to use application which allows you to magnetize one or more guides.

Magnetized guides are special: they push or pull any snapped items along when they are moved.If a page item is snapped to a magnetic guide at only one side, then the page item simply moves along when the guide is moved. If a page item is snapped to more than one magnetic guide, then the page item will stretch or shrink as needed so it can stay snapped to all magnetic guides. This allows you to reposition and resize multiple page items concurrently without having to group them.

For more complex structures, groups of two or more magnetic guides can be linked together so when one guide of the group moves, all linked guides follow suit (and all attached items get repositioned accordingly). The simplest linking arrangement uses rigid links between the magnetic guides two guides are simply linked together, and stay at the same distance from each other at all times. Another common linking arrangement uses stretchy links between the guides. When three or more guides are arranged in a stretchy way, and one of the guides is repositioned, the whole linked guide arrangement is stretched or shrunk while respecting the relative distances between the guides.

Requirements: Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4 APID ToolAssistant

InPreflight Pro 2.6.10 is designed to be a proper and useful quality control, file packaging and reporting solution for Adobe InDesign. It quickly gathers extensive information about document fonts, colors and links and lets you instantly locate potential problems according to user-defined settings.

Major Features:

1. InPreflight saves you hours of checking your documents manually and dealing with consequences of costly mistakes.
2. InPreflight is also a powerful packaging solution which allows you to preflight and package multiple documents. It can collect all files into one folder, eliminating the need to collect the same links multiple times for each design. This is especially useful when collecting multiple InDesign files that share the same linked images. The savings can result in gigabytes of saved space and hours of production time.
3. InPreflight also serves as a powerful information tool that conveniently concentrates all necessary info in one place and reveals several link attributes otherwise unavailable in InDesign.

Requirements:

• Adobe InDesign CS/CS2/CS3/CS4

LinkOptimizer Light 2.7.6 delivers an advantageous tool which reduces the size of images linked to Adobe InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data. It will automatically reduce the image resolution, scale and crop the images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in the InDesign document and the target resolution specified, and reimport them to InDesign at 100%. LinkOptimizer will help you save valuable storage space, time and reduce production costs in a variety of ways by reducing the size of images linked to your InDesign document:

Major Features:

1. Saving valuable hard drive and backup storage space
   
2. Increasing speed of printing and creating PDF files
   
3. Saving valuable time when transferring jobs to service providers, publications or other outside sources
4. Reducing the cost of your job through faster processing by service providers
5. Speeding up your overall job turnaround.
6. The Light version doesn't include the advanced options of LinkOptimizer such as processing of duplicate images, running Photoshop Actions and settings summary.

Requirements: Adobe InDesign & Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4