Category Archives: APIDToolAssistant

Our Plug-ins Work Fine With InDesign CS5.5 version 7.5.1

Posted on June 20, 2011 by kris

In case you’re wondering – we had updated most of our plug-ins a while back, shortly after InDesign CS5.5 was released, and made CS5.5-specific versions available. As long as you make sure to install the CS5.5 versions of our plug-ins … Continue reading →

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TextExporter 3.1 With Support For InDesign/InCopy CS5.5 Released

Posted on May 16, 2011 by kris

TextExporter allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, grouped into a natural reading order. Even if text frames are not threaded together, the exported RTF file will have all the text … Continue reading →

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Recipe: How to Age Photos in InDesign Without Photoshop

Posted on July 12, 2010 by kris

A short article how to achieve an ‘aged’ look-and-feel using recent pictures in just a few clicks. To read more, click here.

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Age Photos in InDesign With Color2Gray

Posted on July 12, 2010 by kris

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: TextExporter 3.0 Introduces CS5 Support

Posted on June 6, 2010 by kris

TextExporter is a US$ 19.00 plug-in for InDesign and InCopy CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 or CS5. It allows you to export all the text from an InDesign document concatenated into a single RTF file, grouped into a natural reading order. Even … Continue reading →

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FrameReporter Beta with CS5 Support Available.

Posted on May 18, 2010 by kris

We’ve just released a beta version (1.0.9b0) of our popular FrameReporter plug-in with support for InDesign CS5. We expect the beta-test period to last until the end of June 2010 – during that period, you can purchase a (per InDesign … Continue reading →

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Improvements to FrameReporter and APID ToolAssistant

Posted on April 11, 2010 by kris

We’ve just released a new version of APID ToolAssistant – 1.0.48; click here for more info and the download links. By itself, APID ToolAssistant does not ‘do’ anything apparent. Instead it assists other plug-ins to do their job. You have … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 29, 2009 by kris

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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How To Nudge And Shift a Whole Layer

Posted on October 29, 2009 by kris

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

Posted on October 9, 2009 by kris

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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