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FrameReporter 1.1.1 For InDesign Now Shows List Of Languages Used

FrameReporter uses little non-printing labels to display interesting info about selected page items, right in your work area.  Normally InDesign makes you click around and find various palettes to dig up the info – which disrupts your train of thought. … Continue reading

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TextExporter 3.1 With Support For InDesign/InCopy CS5.5 Released

TextExporter allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, grouped into a natural reading order. Even if text frames are not threaded together, the exported RTF file will have all the text … Continue reading

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Website Maintenance September 28.

Just to let you know: our website will be off the air for some time on the 28th of September.

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To Update Or Not To Update, That Is The Question!

We’re facing a conundrum: not all of our tools have yet been updated to be compatible with CS5, and we need to find out whether there is sufficient interest in them to warrant updating them. We’ve created an 8-question survey. … Continue reading

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CS5: ImageLibraryLoader Freebie Now Available

ImageLibraryLoader is a free plug-in for InDesign which allows you to quickly set up a floating palette filled with images from one or more designated folders. In many cases, it is much faster than Adobe Bridge, as it uses standard … Continue reading

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Lightning Brain InDesignProxy 1.0.6 released

If you have a Macintosh with more than one version of InDesign installed, and you want to avoid accidentally resaving a CS2 document in CS3 format – then Lightning Brain InDesignProxy is for you. Click here for more info. Version … Continue reading

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Lightning Brain FrameReporter 1.0.1 released

We’ve just released Lightning Brain FrameReporter 1.0.1 for Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4. Have you ever worked with a long text story that spanned multiple text frames? Did you have fun with overset text? How about taking a … Continue reading

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Using Lightning Brain FrameReporter

Lightning Brain FrameReporter is a US$29.00 plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4. In this recipe, we’ll highlight each of the individual LB FrameReporter tidbits, and explain what they could be useful for. If you want to follow … Continue reading

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Lightning Brain ImageHorn 1.0 for Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4

We’ve just released a new freebie. It’s called Lightning Brain ImageHorn (‘horn’ like in shoehorn). If you find yourself re-applying ‘Fit Content To Frame’ each time you resize an image frame, LB ImageHorn is for you: it allows you to … Continue reading

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Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader 1.0.3 for CS4

Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader is one of our freebies – it handles a floating library-palette filled with images that are automatically retrieved from one or more folders; a bit like a fast and lean mini-version of Adobe Bridge. The free Lightning … Continue reading

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