You liked InDesignProxy? Meet Soxy!
Thursday, April 30th, 2009You have a Macintosh. You handle files from in various formats, created with a range of versions. So you have more than one version of Adobe Illustrator, or more than one version of InDesign, and maybe a few different versions of QuarkXPress installed.
You double-click a file, edit and save. Gaah! You’ve just accidentally saved the document into a newer format. Know the feeling? Then Soxy will be for you.
We’re close to releasing the first beta version of Soxy (short for Son of InDesignProxy).
Soxy does everything InDesignProxy does, and more – in addition to Adobe InDesign, it also supports Adobe Illustrator (so it knows how to launch Illustrator CS3 instead of Illustrator CS4 when double-clicking an Illustrator CS3 document, for example), QuarkXPress, and PDF, and we’ll be gradually adding other formats as time passes.
Simply tell the Finder to open all .pdf, .ai, .indd,… files with Soxy instead of with their ‘native’ app, and Soxy will take care of the rest; it will analyze each file as it is double-clicked, and then automatically forward it to the proper application.
Once Soxy is released, we’ll be selling it for US$19.00. For people who download and test the beta we’ll set a ‘beta price’ of US$14.00.
Watch this space – we’ll announce when the beta is ready for download here!
We’re also trying to gauge demand for ‘Soxy for Windows‘ – if you have a need for this, or any other thoughts or ideas about Soxy, or what additional file formats we should add, let us know at marketing@rorohiko.com
P.S. We’ve also added support for InDesign SDK/C++ software developers who have both debug and release versions of InDesign installed – don’t you hate it when you double click an .indd file and InDesign CS4 Debug launches?
It does not 'do' anything apparent, but you need it installed for most of our tools to function.
Output selected color pictures as pure black (K) without having to modify the original JPEG or TIFF.
Track time of last document modification, and keep a log of who has worked on a document.
Shows information about page items without having to hunt for the 'Info' palette; helps navigation in complex documents.
Automatically resize/refit frame content when resizing an image frame.
Floating palette filled with images from designated folders. Much faster than Adobe Bridge, uses standard InDesign library palette.
Efficient method to move page items between layers via context menu with layers.
Automatically expand your selection to encompass items that are similar to a single selected 'sample' page item. Much faster than shift-click-click-click...
Attach objects to guides and use the guides to concurrently pull or stretch all attached objects. Great for structured layouts like forms, photo-grids...
Auto-scale pixel images as they are placed so that all effective resolutions conform to a preset value.
Helps you handle overly cluttered layouts with ease. Temporarily move obscuring elements out of the way and later put them back exactly where they came from.
Generate brand new, copyright-free Sudoku puzzles straight into placeholder frames. Great for newsletters, puzzle books,... - do the layout once, and 'inject' fresh new puzzles
as many times as you want.
Export all text from an InDesign document into a single combined RTF or text file.
Automatically thread unattached text frames into a single, logical thread. Cut a long, multi-frame story into separated text frames without visually affecting the layout.
Transparently manage multiple installed versions of applications. Automatically open documents in the most appropriate version (e.g. InDesign CS3 documents open in InDesign CS3
even if CS4 is installed).
Move text out and back into InDesign documents, to allow translation or editing of text without need for additional licenses of InDesign or InCopy.
