Soxy 1.4.1 has been released for Mac OS X and Windows.

There’s a stumbling block when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

This version has the following changes:

Version 1.4.1:

• Added site license support.
• Added default preferences support.
• Fixed bug where inx and incx files wouldn’t open with Soxy.
• Fixed bug where Soxy wouldn’t cancel multiple launces.
• Fixed bug where icons wouldn’t show up in the executables list.
• Improved launching & running speed.
• Bug fixes.

For more info and to download a 20-day fully functional demo click here:

http://www.rorohiko.com/soxy

Soxy 1.3.0 released for Mac OS X and Windows.

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

This version has the following changes:

• [Mac OS X] Added Sparkle support (auto-update function).
• Added support for adding executables and customizing which file formats they support.
• Added support for XML files.
• Added new icons for Web files.
• Added support for JPEG images.
• Added support for PNG images.
  • Added support for PNG Fireworks Images
• Fixed bug where Windows QuarkXPress documents wouldn’t be recognised by Soxy.
• More bug fixes.

For more info and to download a 20-day fully functional demo click here:

http://www.rorohiko.com/soxy

Soxy 1.2.4 Beta released for Mac OS X and Windows.

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

This version has the following changes:

For more info and to download a 20-day fully functional demo click here:

http://www.rorohiko.com/soxy

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

This version has bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where files on a networked drive wouldn’t open.
• Fixed a bug where some PDF files weren’t recognised.
• Fixed a bug where not being an administrator crashed the program.

For more info and to download a 20-day fully functional demo here:

http://www.rorohiko.com/soxy

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

Soxy has now officially been released for both Mac and Windows, and is available for US$19 per computer. Site licenses are also available.

For more info and to download a 20-day fully functional demo here:

http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/downloads/lightning-brain-soxy

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

Soxy for Macintosh has now officially been released, and is available for US$19 per computer. Soxy for Windows is also already available for sale at the same price, but it is still in beta, and will probably be officially released in early 2010.

If you are interested in purchasing more than 10 licenses, you might want to contact sales@rorohiko.com to discuss a site license.

Download a 20-day fully functional demo here:

http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/downloads/lightning-brain-soxy

Download it here : http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/downloads/lightning-brain-soxy

Changes since 0.2.0b:

• Fixed bug where selections go white on some lists.
• Fixed bug where setting Soxy as the default app crashed the program.
• Some other minor bug fixes.

There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator®… installed on the same computer.

Double-clicking a file’s icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it’s a customer file, and the customer might not be able to open the updated file when you e-mail it back to her.

Soxy for Macintosh has some new features.

The latest version knows how to handle InDesign .jsx script files. Instead of stashing your .jsx files into the InDesign Scripts Panel folder, you can now simply tell the Mac Finder to assign the .jsx file name extension to be opened with Soxy.

Soxy then looks inside the .jsx file for any comments that indicate the version of InDesign the script is destined for, and it then runs the .jsx file with that version.

This means that InDesign .jsx files become almost like little stand-alone applications: you can store them wherever you like on your hard disk, and simply double-clicking them will make the script run inside the proper copy of InDesign.

Soxy must be able to guess what version of InDesign needs to be launched – it will scan the beginning of the .jsx script file for comment lines like

// InDesign CS4

or

// InDesign 6.0

or entries like

#target indesign-6

and use these to decide what version of InDesign this script ‘belongs to’. Most script .jsx files have such a comment – and if they don’t you can always open them in a text editor and add such a line at the beginning of the script.

Make way for double-clickable .jsx files!

For more info click here.

Soxy 0.1.3 is available for download, testing and purchase! It’s InDesignProxy on steroids.

If you have a Macintosh with more than one version of applications like Adobe® Illustrator®, Adobe InDesign®, QuarkXPress®… installed, and you want to avoid accidentally resaving, say, an Illustrator CS2 document in Illustrator CS3 format – then Soxy is for you.

Click here for more info, and to download a fully functional time-limited demo version.

Version 0.1.3 is our first beta release. Soxy is a ‘drop-in’ replacement for InDesignProxy - but where InDesignProxy only knows how to handle InDesign files, Soxy offers a whole range of supported document types. Check it out!

More info here…

You 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?