Some slight improvements were made to the Lightning Brain Text Exporter (correction of the automation samples) and Lightning Brain StylePainter (more dependable ‘painting’ of the styles).

There is a new version of the free Lightning Brain Text Exporter; it adds better support for InDesign CS3, and support for text gathering for right-to-left languages. It also adds some optional new features whose availability is linked to the purchase of a license for APID ToolAssistant: for example, suppressing text on invisible layers. Click hereto read more.

We’ve also simplified our product structure and merged the two plug-ins formerly known as Active Page Item Runtime and Active Page Item Developer Kernel. The combined plug-in is now known as the APID ToolAssistant, a free download. Click here to read more. If you need to upgrade your Active Page Item Runtime, you’ll need to replace it with APID ToolAssistant.

Last, but not least, we have a new InDesign freebie available – it’s called Lightning Brain StylePainter. It allows you to easily assign a lot of styles in one go via the power of grep expressions. Works for InDesign CS/CS2/CS3.

Kris’s introductory course on InDesign C++ SDK programming is now available in book form via Lulu – if you are interested in purchasing a copy, click here.

The goal of the book is not to teach you how to develop for Adobe InDesign; it’s intent is rather to show you how to approach that task. It is an accelerated introduction to the Adobe InDesign CSx Products Programming Guide. It helps to make sense of the information in that otherwise overwhelming tome.