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TextExporter 2.1.0
TextExporter is released to help you export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file easily. more>>
TextExporter 2.1.0 is released to help you export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file easily.
Major Features
- Export text in three different file formats: Rich Text Format, InDesign Tagged Text and Text.
- Export stories belonging to a specified range of pages.
- Allows exclusion of stories on master pages.
- Allows exclusion of stories on the pasteboard.
- Allows exclusion of stories based on their number of characters.
- Sort stories based on their position on the page.
Enhancements:
- TextExporter 2.0.9 did not work with InDesign CS and CS2 - fixed now.
- Fixed unreasonably slow 'text to black' feature.
- Fixed issue where TextExporter occasionally inserted separating newlines into the exported text in the wrong spot.
Lightning Brain LayerLifter for InDesign 1.0.1
Lightning Brain LayerLifter for InDesign gives you a useful method to use the layers palette for moving objects between layers. more>>
Lightning Brain LayerLifter for InDesign 1.0.1 gives you a useful method to use the layers palette for moving objects between layers. It also has an optional feature to nudge all items on the layer throughout the whole document or across the current spread. First select one or more objects on a spread, and then right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac), and pick a destination layer from the LayerLifter context menu.
Enhancements
- Added optional layer shifter feature for people with an APID ToolAssistant license
Requirements:
- InDesign CS, CS2 or CS3
LinkOptimizer Light 4.1.6
LinkOptimizer Light is regarded as a high-quality and versatile image workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. more>>
LinkOptimizer Light 4.1.6 is regarded as a high-quality and versatile image workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign.
Major Features:
- LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to:
- reduce the size of images linked to 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%
- perform essential image adjustments: convert colors, apply sharpening, merge layers and delete hidden ones
- convert image file formats (JPEG to TIFF, EPS to PSD etc.).
- LinkOptimizer allows to dramatically reduce the size of InDesign job, cut down on processing time and reduce production costs.
- LinkOptimizer will help you save valuable storage space, time and reduce production costs:
- saving valuable disk space
- reducing output time
- speeding up job transfer to service providers, publications or other outside sources
- reducing the job cost through faster processing by service providers
- speeding up your overall job turnaround
- LinkOptimizer Light is a low-cost version of LinkOptimizer which doesn't include certain advanced features such as format conversion, upsampling and resampling methods. You can check the full version of LinkOptimizer here: LinkOptimizer.
Enhancements:
- Fixed an issue in which analyzing a flipped image in InDesign CS2 could result in error. Flipped images in InDesign CS2 are now ignored.
- Fixed an issue in which selecting a link in the Links window after analyzing an InDesign CS2 document could result in error.
- Fixed an issue in which an error could occur when editing images in Photoshop on Mac OS X 10.4.11.
- Fixed an issue in which Unsharp Mask settings weren't saved with the current preset.
Requirements:
- Adobe InDesign CS-CS4
- Adobe Photoshop CS-CS4
- Mac OS X 10.4.2 - 10.5
LinkOptimizer 4.1.6
LinkOptimizer is regarded as a convenient and professional workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. more>>
LinkOptimizer 4.1.6 is regarded as a convenient and professional workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign.
- LinkOptimizer works automatically with Adobe Photoshop to:
- Reduce the size of images linked to InDesign document by eliminating excess image data:
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- LinkOptimizer 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%.
- Perform essential image adjustments:
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- Convert colors
- Apply sharpening
- Merge layers.
- Convert file formats.
- LinkOptimizer allows to dramatically reduce the size of InDesign job, cut down on processing time and reduce production costs. LinkOptimizer will help you save valuable storage space, time and reduce production costs by:
- Saving valuable disk space
- Reducing output time
- Speeding up job transfer to service providers, publications or other outside sources
- Reducing the job cost through faster processing by service providers
- Speeding up your overall job turnaround
Enhancements:
- Fixed an issue in which analyzing a flipped image in InDesign CS2 could result in error. Flipped images in InDesign CS2 are now ignored.
- Fixed an issue in which selecting a link in the Links window after analyzing an InDesign CS2 document could result in error.
BatchOutput 3.5.4
BatchOutput is a simple, stable and fast professional solution to automate printing, export to PDF, PostScript, EPS, JPEG, SWF and XFL of InDesign documents. more>>
BatchOutput 3.5.4 is a simple, stable and fast professional solution to automate printing, export to PDF, PostScript, EPS, JPEG, SWF and XFL of InDesign documents. You can also export multipage InDesign documents as single page PDF and PostScript files with variable file names, send files to printer as single pages and change job name in printer queue. Just select the documents you need to output, adjust the settings and BatchOutput will do the rest for you. And because BatchOutput can run in the background, you can still keep working on your computer thus using your production time even more efficiently.
Major Features:
- BatchOutput Server: BatchOutput Server runs on a dedicated machine and watches hotfolders linked to its workflow settings. BatchOutput Server performs all its tasks automatically and can run absolutely unattended.
- Workflows: Workflow is a group of output settings specified in BatchOutput Server. You can create workflows for printing and export to PDF and PostScript. The workflow settings are linked to hotfolders watched by BatchOutput Server.
- Hotfolders: Hotfolders reside on server volumes available to other computers on the network. Users copy InDesign files into hotfolders watched by BatchOutput Server. The InDesign files in hotfolders are processed automatically using the linked workflow settings.
- Export as Single Pages: BatchOutput Server can automatically export InDesign documents as single page PDF and PostScript files.
- Automatic Error Handling: BatchOutput Server checks files for basic problems during processing and can skip files when missing links or fonts, invalid page range and other errors are detected.
- E-mail Notifications: BatchOutput Server can send automatic e-mail notifications during processing. In each workflow you specify whether to send the notifications or not, and which E-mail Template to use. Notifications are triggered by user defined events, such as errors, font activation, process stages and others.
- Automatic Font Activation: BatchOutput Server can automatically activate document fonts collected with the InDesign file into Hotfolder. Both Mac and PC fonts can be activated.
- Variable File Names: BatchOutput Server offers unmatched capabilities to create variable output file names, which can include page number, date, script label and other components.
- XMP Variables: BatchOutput Server has state of the art XML processing engine built-in. It allows users to base some output settings on InDesign XMP metadata. This powerful feature is enabled through XMP Variables, which define how specific XMP tags should be used
- Logs and History: BatchOutput Server logs all its activity into daily logs and lets instantly view the process history for each file.
- Remote Monitoring: Users can monitor BatchOutput Server from other computers on the network using the BatchOutput Server Monitor application. The Remote Monitoring can be enabled via Bonjour network services or Shared Data Folder.
Enhancements:
- FIXED: Fixed several issues related to SWF and XFL export:
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- XFL text renders properly as per specified settings
- SWF curve quality is set correctly (please note that InDesign CS4 has its own unrelated issues with JPEG quality settings which are fixed in the latest InDesign update)
- BatchOutput doesn't attempt to process HTML files anymore when this option is unchecked in the SWF settings
Requirements:
- BatchOutput Server
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- Adobe InDesign CS/CS2/CS3/CS4
- Mac OS X 10.4.2 (or later), Leopard compatible
- mac30win
- Workflow
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- InDesign files can be submitted from both Mac and Windows machines
- Mac and PC fonts will be auto-activated
reveal them in Finder (even multiple selections) - show different icons for InDesign CS and CS2 files (even if they all look the same in Finder) - detailed progress of the output processLicense:Updater
SimpleDigitalLocomotive 0.4b26
Controlling Maerklin- or Selectrix-Digital model railway locomotives, function-models and/or accessories via Ethernet or a serial port (RS.422) of a Macintosh or via USB-to-serial converters (by more>>
SimpleDigitalLocomotive 0.4b26 is known as Controlling Maerklin- or Selectrix-Digital model railway locomotives, function-models and/or accessories via Ethernet or a serial port (RS.422) of a Macintosh or via USB-to-serial converters.
It works under MacOS X 10.4.8 or newer. Needs latest (UniversalBinary) USB-to-serial drivers. Supported external digital hardware includes mrkl60212 CS, E**S, mrkl6021/6051, IntelliB, TwinC, EasyC, Selectr.
Major Features:
- Control digital model-railroad via Ethernet or a serial port of a Macintosh
- Supported external units: Mrkl6051, IB, EC, Selec.-Interface, CS1, E**S or compatible and CS2.
Enhancements:
- "Keyboard" accessory syntax selection updated for ECoS/CS1.
- Icons visible instead of keywords, columns rearranged.
- "Vehicle Table": columns "decoder" and "protocol" separated back again.
- "Vehicle Table": column "decoder" will now contain decoder's real address and an additional description.
- "Vehicle Table", column "decoder": separating slash "/" can be omitted behind decoder's real address
Requirements
- MacOS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11,10.5.2 or newer (PPC & Intel)
Studio 7_3_561
Interactive 3D packaging design inside Adobe Illustrator. more>>
Studio 7_3_561 offers a helpful tool that brings interactive 3D packaging design inside Adobe Illustrator.
Major Features:
- Studio offers a 3D viewing environment where you can see your artwork applied instantly on the packaging.
- Studio also brings packaging-savvy navigation and alignment tools. And by writing a 3D PDF file from Studio, you can share your ideas with clients for review and approval.
- Studio reduces time-consuming mock-ups, spots design-errors faster and takes away the guesswork from 2D flats.
- Studio is the continuation of the award-winning 3-dX plug-in.
- For folding carton or corrugated packaging, the shapes can be supplied by ArtiosCAD or Score!.
Requirements:
- Mac with PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel processor
- Operating system: Mac OS X (10.4.x), from Deskpack7 R3 onwards 10.5.x(Leopard) is also supported
- Memory: 512 MB Ram
- Harddisk space required host application and plug-in: at least 200MB
- 1 available USB-port
- CD-ROM drive
- Network card
- Creative Suite CS2 or CS3 installed, CS4 support from Esko Software Suite 7 Release 5 onwards
Netatalk 2.0.4
Kernel level AppleTalk protocol tool implementation. more>> Kernel level AppleTalk protocol tool implementation.
Netatalk is a freely-available, kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, originally for BSD-derived systems. A *NIX/*BSD system running netatalk is capable of serving many macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleTalk router,
AppleShare file server, *NIX/*BSD print server, and for accessing AppleTalk printers via Printer Access Protocol (PAP). Included are a number of minor printing and debugging utilities.
NOTE: Netatalk is licensed and distributed under the terms of the BSD License and GNU General Public License (GPL).
System requirements:
- Berkeley DB libraries AND headers
Enhancements
- REM: remove timeout
- NEW: afpd: DHX2 uams using GNU libgcrypt.
- NEW: afpd: volume options illegalseq, perm and invisibledots
- ilegalseq encode illegal sequence in filename asis, ex "217-", which is not
- a valid SHIFT-JIS char, is encoded as U217 -.
- perm value OR with the client requested permissions. (help with OSX 10.5
- strange permissions).
- Make dot files visible by default with usedots, use invisibledots
- for keeping the old behavior, ie for OS9 (OSX hide dot files on its
- own).
- NEW: afpd: volume options allow_hosts/denied hosts
- NEW: afpd: volume options dperm/fperm default directory and file
- permissions or with server requests.
- NEW: afpd: afpd.conf, allow line continuation with
- NEW: afpd: AppleVolumes.default allow line continuation with
- NEW: afpd: Mac greek encoding.
- NEW: afpd: CJK encoding.
- UPD: afpd: Default UAMs: DHX + DHX2
- FIX: afpd: return the right error in createfile and copyfile if the disk
- is full.
- FIX: afpd: resolveid return the same error code than OSX if its a directory
- FIX: afpd: server name check, test for the whole loopback subnet
- not only 127.0.0.1.
- UPD: afpd: limit comments size to 128 bytes, (workaround for Adobe CS2 bug).
- UPD: afpd: no more daemon icon.
- UPD: usedots, return an invalid name only for .Applexxx files used by netatalk not
- all files starting with .apple.
- UPD: cnid: increase the number of cnid_dbd slots to 512.
- FIX: cnid: dbd detach the daemon from the control terminal.
- UPD: cnid: never ending Berkeley API changes...
- UPD: cnid: dbd add a timeout when reading data from afpd client.
- UPD: cnid: Dont wait five second after the first error when speaking to the dbd
- backend.
- FIX: papd: vars use % not $
- FIX: papd: quote chars in popen variables expansion. security fix.
- FIX: papd: papd -d didnt write to stderr.
- FIX: papd: ps comments dont always use ()
- FIX: many compilation errors (solaris, AFS, Tru64, xfs quota...).
Lightning Brain ImageHorn for InDesign 1.0.1
Lightning Brain ImageHorn for InDesign is launched as a useful plug-in which is designed to enable dynamic image fitting (horn like in shoehorn). more>>
Lightning Brain ImageHorn for InDesign 1.0.1 is launched as a useful plug-in which is designed to enable dynamic image fitting ('horn' like in 'shoehorn').
Dynamic image fitting automatically re-applies the selected fitting settings to an image each time you resize the frame that contains it.
Requirements:
- Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4 APID ToolAssistant
Style Flocker for InDesign CS2 for Mac 1.0.1
manages your character, paragraph and object styles within Adobe InDesign. more>> Manage your styles
RogueSheeps Style Flocker manages your character, paragraph and object styles within Adobe?? InDesign??. Group and apply all of your styles within a single palette, as well as see the currently applied style or styles within your document.
Arbitrarily group styles
Styles can be grouped according to your needs. Each group, or flock, can hold any combination of character, paragraph and/or object styles, and any style can appear as many times as suits your needs. Flocks can also contain other flocks, allowing you to organize all of your styles based on your own individual workflow.
View detailed list of applied styles
The Style Flocker palette shows you the currently applied styles in an easy to read status section at the top of the palette. If you have multiple styles applied to the current selection, a list of all of them will be shown in the status section. You can also drag and drop the currently applied style(s) from the status area into one of your flocks.
Group styles easily
Creating flocks is a snap! Just drag and drop styles from the styles palettes, or use the convenient palette menu items to add styles. Flocks can have sub-flocks and styles can be added and deleted to these with the push of a button.
Replace three palettes with one
After creating and organizing your styles, hide the InDesign style palettes; Style Flocker allows both application and display of applied styles, so you save valuable screen real estate.
Its Free!
If you like it, we encourage you to spread the word about it. Feel free to share your thoughts about it with us here. Be sure to check out our other plugins: Magma Effects and InEventScript to see if they can also improve your experience using InDesign.<<less
Lightning Brain StoryParker for InDesign 1.0.7
Lightning Brain StoryParker for InDesign is created as a useful plug-in which aims at helping you cope with cluttered pages. more>>
Lightning Brain StoryParker for InDesign 1.0.7 is created as a useful plug-in which aims at helping you cope with cluttered pages. It adds a number of context menus to various page items
Every page item can be temporarily 'parked' - meaning: you can put it aside, somewhere on the pasteboard, and quickly move it back to exactly where it came from some time later.
Stories spread over linked text boxes can also be parked all together.
The idea is to help you get one or more page items out of the way quickly, for example because you want to reach something that's underneath. Later on, you can move the page items back to their exact original position with a single click.
The neat thing is that parked page items 'remember' where they came from - you can 'unpark' them, which causes them to fly back to the exact location they had before you parked them.
Parked items are put on the pasteboard, and can be moved around freely from there - any movement while they are parked is ignored and forgotten the instant you unpark them.
There is a neat extra trick for text boxes: the context menu you get by right-clicking or control-clicking a text box will also allow you to park the whole story.
All text boxes that contain parts of the same 'text flow' or story are parked together.
Requirements:
- InDesign CS, CS2 or CS3
Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader 1.0.3
Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader offers you an extremely useful tool to retrieve floating palette of images in an automatic way from designated folder. more>>
Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader 1.0.3 offers you an extremely useful tool to retrieve floating palette of images in an automatic way from designated folder. The Image Library Loader plug-in allows users to select a folder and automatically fill a floating palette with any images found in that folder.
This plug-in helps in the case of structured design environment - often the images a designer needs for creating a document are made available to him or her in a designated folder. Using Image Library Loader for managing the images is much faster than attempting to place the images using conventional means, like placing them or using Adobe Bridge.
- Improved support for CS4
- Resolved potential conflict if multiple versions of InDesign CSx are installed and use the Image Library Loader
Jungle Software Scripts 1.8.2
Scripts designed for Adobe Creative Suite 2. more>> Scripts designed for Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Jungle Software Scripts is a useful scripts set created for Adobe Creative Suite 2, containing scripts for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2 and Bridge CS2. The Jungle Software scripts are supported on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Jungle Software Scripts major features:
- Projects creation time saving
Imagine a make-up of one hundred page-long magazine. The make-up contains 400 raster images on average. Now imagine that you need to adjust a half of those images on sharpness or color contrast in Photoshop. Suppose, it takes 5 minutes to adjust one image. As a result, you would spend 1,000 minutes or more than 16 hours or more than 2 working days! Would you rather do it in 2 hours? Jungle Software scripts are able to perform such task in even shorter time.
- Maximum images quality saving
Jungle Software scripts can adjust the images like no other. That is why there is no need to add trust scaling, rotating and similar operations to the process of exporting document in PGF performed in InDesign. Entrust the Jungle Software scripts with a final adjustment. They perform the technological operations in the environment that created the images. It is crucial for your image quality!
- HD space saving
While performing purely technological operations such as images scaling or cutting and also deleting superfluous or unused information from them with help of Jungle Software scripts, you are essentially reducing space, occupied by these files on your HD, and also reducing both creation time and reserve copies size.
- PDF creation and printing time reduction
By optimizing the size of your projects with help of Jungle Software scripts, you are considerably reducing not only time you spend for printing, but also the time for creation of PDF files.
- Data communications time reduction
By using Jungle Software scripts for your project processing, you reduce a trans- mission time to a service provider, publication and to other parties interested in your work.
- Service provider expenses decrease
The reduction on your projects size owing to Jungle Software scripts will lead to a time reduction for their processing in RIP and, as a result, will cut your expense to a service provider.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Developed new script code for Export Pages ID.jsx. Update to version 1.8.1 included.
useful scripts set created for Adobe Creative Suite 2, containing scripts for Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2 and Bridge CS2. Jungle Software scripts are applicable for both MacLightning Brain Color2Gray for InDesign 1.0.10
Force color images to render in grayscale more>> Force color images to render in grayscale
Lightning Brain Color2Gray for InDesign allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image.
Sometimes you want a particular picture to be output as a grayscale image, yet the original image is in color. You could open it in Photoshop and convert it to grayscale, but you can instead also use this plug-in. The original image is not changed and remains in color, yet it is output as a grayscale image. The gray image will only render on the black (K) plate.
This is a hybrid plug-in collection: part is written in C++, part is written in ExtendScript/JavaScript. As a result, it has three plug-in components.
The three plug-ins that need to be present for this to work are:
- an up-to-date Active Page Item Runtime or equivalent
- a Color2Gray.spln scripted plug-in (with .spln file name extension). All platforms share the same scripted plug-in file. On Windows this file carries a generic icon.
- a platform-specific Color2Gray plug-in (with .pln file name extension; the name will differ for CS/CS2/Mac/Win - its Color2Gray.pln)
Yes, youll need two plug-ins that have Color2Gray in their file name: one is a scripted plug-in, the other is a regular plug-in.
Make sure you install the correct plug-ins for your version of InDesign. InDesign CS Plug-Ins and InDesign CS2 Plug-Ins are mutually incompatible, and Windows Plug-Ins dont work so well on Mac.
To make it easier, weve prepared ready-to-copy sets of plug-ins - you may dig into the appropriate disk image or folder and copy the three items from there to your plug-ins folder.
Please read the Remarks below - our software evolves over time, and you might need to separately update some of the individual plug-ins.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- CS4 support
pln file name extension; the name will differ for CS/CS2/Mac/Win - its Color2Gray .pln) Yes, youll need two plug-ins that have Color2Gray in their file name: one is a scripted plug-in, the otherColor2Gray for InDesign 1.0.10
Color2Gray for InDesign is a mighty effective program that allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image. more>>
Color2Gray for InDesign 1.0.10 is a mighty effective program that allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image.
Sometimes you want a particular picture to be output as a grayscale image, yet the original image is in color. You could open it in Photoshop and convert it to grayscale, but you can instead also use this plug-in. The original image is not changed and remains in color, yet it is output as a grayscale image. The gray image will only render on the black (K) plate.
Requirements: InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4 APIDToolAssistant
