Category Archives: Recipes

Better Auto-Fitting of Images in an Automated InDesign Workflow

Here’s something for scripters and automators – if you build automated workflows with InDesign Server, this might be useful to you. It’s a blog post that explains how to achieve better auto-fitting of images onto a layout in an automated … Continue reading

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Age Photos in InDesign With Color2Gray

This article is a little how-to about making pictures look ‘aged’ without needing to use Photoshop. First the end-result: here is an example image, part of an InDesign page. Below, I’ll explain how I did this without needing Photoshop, and … Continue reading

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InDesign CS5: TextStitch 1.0.5 with CS5 support released

TextStitch is a popular tool which helps you with threading or separating text frames in InDesign CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 – all this without disturbing the look and feel of the page. There are three main functions: auto-stitch, quick … Continue reading

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InDesign ExtendScript Toolkit and Soxy

If you design and create ExtendScripts targeting Adobe InDesign for other people, like we often do, you probably also need Soxy. Our customers use a diverse range of InDesign versions (CS, CS2, CS3, CS4), so we need to make sure … Continue reading

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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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Distinguishing Photoshop EPS From Illustrator EPS

Soxy 1.0.4 for Macintosh adds support for EPS files. Thanks to Soxy, one can double-click an EPS file icon in the Finder – and any Photoshop EPS file will open in Photoshop; any Illustrator EPS files will open in Illustrator. … 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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How To Nudge And Shift a Whole Layer

The latest version of our LayerLifter tool includes an optional layer shifter feature, which allows you to do document-wide ‘layer nudging’ Imagine you made many pages with a picture grid layout, with captions below the pictures – something like this: … Continue reading

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FrameReporter 1.0.5 Released

We’ve been hard at work these last few months – a beta of StoryTweaker, a new version of TextExporter, and also a new version of FrameReporter for InDesign. This update adds the ability to display the image file name and/or … 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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