All of our tools are time-limited, fully functional demos – you can use them for roughly a month withoud needing to purchase a license.

Go ahead – download any of them, and try it out. If you want to continue to use the tool after the demo period, you can purchase a license from within the software – no need for any additional downloads.

Color2Gray

Color2Gray allows you to instantly convert placed color photos into grayscale without modifying the original color image.

Currently you probably open the original image in Adobe® Photoshop® and then convert it to grayscale. With Color2Gray the conversion takes a moment. The gray image output in CMYK renders only on the black (K) plate. The original is unchanged.

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FrameReporter

FrameReporter navigation allows you to instantly “jump to” from the pop-up menu of named stories or named frames in a large, multi-story document. It eliminates the time consumed tracking through document to find the frame you are looking for.

It will also display non-printing “info-labels” next to the selected page item. You configure the “info” you choose from one or more of:
• Overset text warning
• Effective resolution
• Whether an item is overridden from the master page
• Name of the currently selected story
• Name of the currently selected page item
• Squareness of frame
• Number of words in frame compared to total number of words in story
• Position of text frame within a multi-frame story
• Roadmap of all pages containing parts of a multi-frame story

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HistoryLog

Who to ask at a glance! This simple tool enables the progress of a project to be tracked so staff details are recorded and immediately available for later review if required.

The tool uses a tracking ID. Every user decides what information to store but typically this will be a full name, initials or first name. Each time someone works on the project the tool will auto-update the History Box with document name, tracker ID, time and date of the last save. The History Box typically resides on your document’s pasteboard.

This tool is not meant to be used for time tracking.

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ImageHorn

The ImageHorn plug-in automatically ‘shoehorns’ images into frames. The same dynamic image fitting re-applies if you resize the frame. So you no longer need to spend time manually re-fitting each image.

The menu contains the following options:
• Dynamic Fit
• Dynamic Fit Proportionally
• Dynamic Fill Proportionally
• Dynamic Center
• No Dynamic Fitting

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ImageLibraryLoader

This is a time-saving short-cut when sourcing multiple images for a document. ImageLibraryLoader creates a floating palette of the available images in thumbnail size, ready to be drag-dropped into your document. The palette is created automatically when the folder is opened. This tool removes the need to access and view each image individually.

An example is the design of newspaper advertisements where a designer receives a folder which contains:
1. An empty template document with the correct advertisement size and
2. A collection of images that can be used.

Now all your do is simply open the template and select ‘Reload Image Library from Document Folder’, and the images in the same folder fill the palette.

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LayerLifter

The LayerLifter is a time-saving alternative to using the “layers palette” for moving objects between layers. First select one or more objects on a spread, and then right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac), and pick a destination layer from the LayerLifter context menu.
The cumulative time reduction on a large document could be significant.

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LikeFindsLike

This is a handy tool for manipulating several similar items on a page or a spread. You might want to tweak their sizes, for instance. Instead of shift-click-click-click to select each of the frames you want to work on, you choose one of the frames then use the “Select All Similar” function in LikeFindsLike dialog. Your manipulations then apply to all the “like” frames.

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MagnetoGuides

This tool has been developed to aid those working on layouts for structured, repetitive materials like forms or charts and tables. It enables multiple page items to be repositioned and resized automatically concurrently without manually grouping them.

With MagnetoGuides you magnetize one or more guides so they push or pull any ‘snapped’ items when the guide is moved. For example: a page item ‘snapped to’ a magnetic guide on one side simply moves along when the guide is moved; a page item is ‘snapped to’ more than one magnetic guide will stretch or shrink or relocate according to how the magnetic guides are moved.

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PlaceAndScale

PlaceAndScale automatically scales placed images with differing resolutions to a preset standard resolution you have decided suits the particular project.

For instance you need to place a number of JPEG images from various sources into a booklet. The images have come from different sources, they have different pixel settings and dimensions. The need is for one common resolution throughout the booklet. As each image is placed it will automatically scale to suit the preset resolution.

This reduces to nil the time you would invest to work on each image individually.

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StoryParker

StoryParker helps you deal with page clutter. You can select one or more items and ‘park’ them on the pasteboard; StoryTweaker keeps track of their original position.

When you ‘unpark’ them they remember where they came from and return there instantly.

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SudokuGenerator

If you are publishing a newspaper, magazine or newsletter in InDesign you will be able to generate Sudoku puzzles straight into the publication by using SudukoGenerator.

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TextExporter

There are a number of options to export text out of an InDesign document, but in most cases you end up with a number of disparate files. TextExporter is different – it extracts all the text into a single file.
Supported output file formats:
- Rich Text Format (RTF)
- InDesign Tagged Text
- Text

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TextStitch

Threading together a collection of text frames is laborious. TextStitch will thread it rapidly and accurately slash the time it normally takes. There are three main functions: auto-stitch, quick stitch and auto-unstitch.

Auto-stitch connects disparate text frames into a logical thread. Auto-unstitch can cut existing text threads without visually disturbing the document. Quick stitch offers a quicker point-and-click method for connecting text frames.

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Soxy

Soxy is a match-maker that matches a document file with the correct program when multiple versions of applications like Adobe® InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, Adobe Illustrator… are installed on the same computer.

Soxy automatically analyses and matches the file so each time the job is saved in the right program.

The common problems: 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 and as a result, there’s a customer who can’t open an updated file when e-mailed back. Soxy prevents those problems.

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StoryTweaker

StoryTweaker is a program that results in considerable efficiencies where several writers/editors are involved in one project. For instance:
• an editor requiring a brochure to be translated into other languages
• designers who hand off a finished layout to writers to provide the content
• writers/editors collaborating on a project

The StoryTweaker system is composed of two separate application programs.

The first is called StoryTweaker. StoryTweaker does not work directly with InDesign files. Instead it works with a special folder structure called a Tweak Set. The original InDesign document is ‘frozen’ inside the Tweak Set to protect it against inadvertent modification.

The Tweak Set is the ‘control center’ where assignments are created and sent out to those required to ‘tweak’ the text of the document (e.g. German and French translators).

The second application program is called AssignmentTweaker. It is used by writers, translators, editors… – anyone involved in the text content of the project.

A copy of the free AssignmentTweaker application is sent with each assignment. (Owners of a StoryTweaker license are allowed to freely distribute as many copies as needed of AssignmentTweaker to all their collaborators – there is no per-seat cost.) The translators, in this example, can see but can’t alter the design where their text will be used.

Once an assignment is finished and returned to its originator (e.g. translated text or subsequent corrections made), it is imported back into the Tweak Set.

Finally, tweaked versions are extracted from the Tweak Set finished in InDesign.

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