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Lightning Brain ImageHorn for Adobe InDesign is a free plug-in 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.

Version 1.0.1, our newest release, adds support for placed PDF and EPS files – the previous version only supported placed bitmap images.

David Blatner recently covered LB ImageHorn as one of 10 free must-have plug-ins on Lynda.com:

InDesign CS4: 10 Free Must-Have Plug-ins

Click here for more info about ImageHorn and the download links!

Lightning Brain InDesignProxy 1.0.7 is available for download!

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 1.0.6 adds support for more file name extensions: .indd, .indt, .incd, .incx, .icml

But more important, when you assign a file name extension to InDesignProxy, version 1.0.6 will now add proper Adobe InDesign icons to any documents it manages. So your InDesign CS, CS2 or CS3 files will always carry the correct document icon, even if you have CS4 installed.

More info here…

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 make the image frame fitting options dynamic.

LB ImageHorn will automatically re-apply the selected fitting option to the frame each time you resize it, instead of forcing you to re-apply the fitting option after you’ve resized the image frame. Click here for more info.

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 Brain ImageLibraryLoader has been updated to better support InDesign CS4. The main issue that we fixed was a CS4-specific problem where all imported assets carried the name ‘Untitled’. Click here for more info and for the download links.

There’s a common problem on Mac OS X when there are multiple versions of Adobe® InDesign® or Adobe® InCopy® installed on the same computer. Double-clicking an .indd file’s icon will often cause the wrong application to launch.

The horror scenario: your customer sends you their InDesign CS2 file; you double-click it. It opens in the brand new copy of InDesign CS4 you just installed on your Mac. You work on the file for two days, and send it back to your customer. They cannot open it – they only have InDesign CS2. The fun starts…

To fix this, we’ve been building a little app called Lightning Brain InDesignProxy; we had a rapid succession of ever-improving versions over the last month, but things seem to have settled – we’ve had no bug reports for a while now. Click here for more info.

We’ve released it as ‘cup-of-coffee’-ware: if you like the app, and it saves you time, we’d appreciate a nice ‘Latte Grande’ with bells and whistles – come back to the Lightning Brain InDesignProxy page and send us a US$4 donation to show your appreciation.

On the other hand, if you hate the app, or it does not work for you – please send us feedback at support@rorohiko.com; we would really appreciate that!

Check it out – click here to read more and to download it!

Lightning Brain TextExporter now supports Adobe® InCopy® as well as Adobe® InDesign®, for any version between CS and CS4.

The latest version is 2.0.7. For more info and/or download, click here.

We have free updates for MagnetoGuides (demo/commercial) and the Color2Gray (freebie).

The Lightning Brain MagnetoGuides has been updated to version 1.0.5 and now supports Adobe® InDesign® CS4 (in addition to CS, CS2, CS3).

This tool helps anyone who needs to lay out structured, repetitive documents, for example, paper forms. It allows to automatically coordinate adjustments to the positioning and size of multiple page items that are scattered over the layout

New feature in MagnetoGuides 1.0.5: magnetized guides now are visually ‘marked’ to make them easier to spot. Click here for more info.

The free Lightning Brain Color2Gray has also been updated to version 1.0.10 and also adds supports Adobe InDesign CS4. Click here for more info.

Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color photos (TIFF, JPEG) to grayscale without modifying the original color image. The converted pictures only render on the black (K) plate.

The APIDToolAssistant 1.0.46 has been released. More info can be found here.

Download APID ToolAssistant (version 1.0.46. Includes versions for Mac, Windows, InDesign CS, InDesign CS2, InDesign CS3 and InDesign CS4).

This version is of interest to end-users and scripters alike. It adds a host of features that are of interest to the serious scripter, as well as CS4 compatibility.

For interested scripters, Kris also has made a blog post that highlights one of the new features - scripted page item adornments. Click here to read it on our new Rorohiko Documentation Pool blog.

We’ve got version 3.0 of GREPGrokker available – click here to check it out. This one’s main new feature is that it uses a brand new GREP engine we’ve developed, which allows it to emulate InDesign’s GREP functionality much better than the previous versions.