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How To Get InDesign Nested Styles in RTF Export

I’m grateful to Dorothy Hoskins because she brought to my attention that when an InDesign document uses nested styles, the resulting styling does not get exported to RTF by TextExporter. Further investigation showed that this is a limitation of the built-in InDesign … Continue reading

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“And Then You Crack The .epub File Open…”

I want to shed some light on the reasoning behind ePubCrawler, our InDesign-to-fixed layout EPUB conversion tool. 1. Take as much or as little as you want. It’s totally OK to use ‘a little bit’ of ePubCrawler. For example, if all … Continue reading

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Export All Hyphenation Points With ePubCrawler

ePubCrawler 0.2.4 or higher has an interesting feature: it can find all the hyphenation points in all the words in a document, and convert them to discretionary hyphens in the XHTML output. ePubCrawler is our ‘work-in-progress’ of a tool for … Continue reading

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ePubCrawler 0.2.3: Updated Version of our InDesign to Fixed Layout EPUB Converter!

We’ve again updated ePubCrawler, our InDesign-to-Fixed Layout EPUB tool. The list of changes for version 0.2.3 is available from http://slashti.me/epubcrawler#v000203 ePubCrawler is gradually becoming more and more powerful, and if you’re serious about Fixed Layout EPUB, you need to check it out. … Continue reading

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ePubCrawler 0.2.2 InDesign to Fixed Layout EPUB converter now available

We’ve again updated ePubCrawler, our InDesign-to-Fixed Layout EPUB tool: ePubCrawler 0.2.2 and a version history is available from http://www.rorohiko.com/ePubCrawler ePubCrawler is gradually becoming more and more powerful, and if you’re serious about Fixed Layout EPUB, you need to check it out. ePubCrawler is for people … Continue reading

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Sudoku Generator Now Available For CS6

Our Sudoku generator can help when you’re publishing a newspaper, magazine, newsletter… It enables you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly into an InDesign document – for example, for your ‘Puzzle Page’, or to generate whole booklets with Sudoku puzzles. Version … Continue reading

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Color2Gray Available for CS6

Color2Gray version 2.0.3 is now available and supports InDesign CS6. It allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image. It works best for JPEG and TIFF images. When outputting in CMYK, the gray image … Continue reading

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UnicodeInjector: Easily Insert Any Unicode Character Into InDesign

We’ve just released a small free script to easily insert any Unicode character code into text in InDesign. The script allows you to assign a keyboard shortcut to a sequence of one or more Unicode character codes. So if you … Continue reading

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Batch-process Multiple Documents. Enable Drag/Drop For InDesign ExtendScripts.

We’ve just released a beta for a new tool called Batcher. Batcher can enhance a wide range of existing InDesign ExtendScripts (CS3 and upwards), and make them work with drag/dropped documents, book files or even whole folders. Instead of the tedium … Continue reading

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ePubCrawler 0.2.0 InDesign to Fixed Layout EPUB converter now available

We’ve again updated ePubCrawler, our InDesign-to-Fixed Layout EPUB tool: ePubCrawler 0.2.0 and a version history is available from http://www.rorohiko.com/ePubCrawler ePubCrawler is gradually becoming more and more powerful, and if you’re serious about Fixed Layout EPUB, you need to check it out. ePubCrawler … Continue reading

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