Category Archives: Freebies

ShowPaths 1.0 for Macintosh Released

ShowPaths for Macintosh is a very simple app, with only one purpose: give you easy copy/paste access to the file path of a file or folder. It’s released as donationware. Have a look here for the download link: http://www.rorohiko.com/showpaths

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TextExporter 2.1.3 Available

TextExporter is a plug-in for InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4. It allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, while following a natural reading order. Text files and InDesign Tagged Text … Continue reading

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How and why to use Script Labels in InDesign

In this blog post, I want to talk a bit about the secretive Script Label in InDesign. You might have noticed the Script Label palette, and wondered what it was used for – it’s under Windows – Automation – Script … Continue reading

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LayerLifter 1.0.1 Released – Adds Document-wide Layer Nudging And Shifting.

Our LayerLifter freebie is a simple plug-in for Adobe InDesign that offers an alternative method for moving page items between layers, instead of using the InDesign Layers palette. With LayerLifter, the names of the document layers appear in the context menu of any selected … Continue reading

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ImageLibraryLoader 1.0.6 Released

ImageLibraryLoader 1.0.6 fixes an issue that occurs when you try to paste from an InDesign library into the same frame a second time – the second paste did not work with the previous version. This version fixes that issue. ImageLibraryLoader … Continue reading

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TextExporter 2.0.8 available

Our ever more popular TextExporter tool has had a face-lift. TextExporter is a free plug-in for Adobe InCopy and Adobe InDesign that allows you to export all text from an InDesign file to a single file – in either Text, RTF or InDesign … Continue reading

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ImageHorn and ImageLibraryLoader Updated

ImageHorn is a free plug-in for Adobe InDesign to automatically resize or re-fit an image frame’s contents when the image frame is resized. ImageHorn has a new feature – it is now possible to ‘pre-assign’ a fitting option to an … Continue reading

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How to Populate a Template With Images in No Time At All

This short article will explain how you can set up a template with a bunch of image frames, and then populate this template with images, much faster than you’d expect, using Adobe InDesign CS3 or above. The secret to this … Continue reading

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APID ToolAssistant updated

We’ve just released an update to the APID ToolAssistant plug-in – version 1.0.47. This plug-in has no end-user features; it is mainly an invisible, yet critical component of many popular InDesign plug-ins, both developed by us or by other software … Continue reading

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ImageHorn freebie has been updated

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 … Continue reading

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