Category Archives: Freebies

CS5: ImageLibraryLoader Freebie Now Available

Posted on August 13, 2010 by kris

ImageLibraryLoader is a free plug-in for InDesign which allows you to quickly set up a floating palette filled with images from one or more designated folders. In many cases, it is much faster than Adobe Bridge, as it uses standard … Continue reading →

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LayerLifter 1.0.2 With InDesign CS5 Support Released

Posted on July 8, 2010 by kris

Our LayerLifter freebie is a simple plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS5, CS4, CS3, CS2 or CS which offers an alternate 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 … Continue reading →

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InDesign CS5: Color2Gray for CS5 Now Available

Posted on June 22, 2010 by kris

Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color photos (TIFF, JPEG) to grayscale without modifying the original color image. The converted pictures only render on the black (K) plate. Color2Gray has been updated to version 2.0 and now supports Adobe InDesign CS5. … Continue reading →

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InDesign CS5: TextStitch 1.0.5 with CS5 support released

Posted on June 16, 2010 by kris

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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TransformMaster (a.k.a EnslaveMaster) for InDesign CS5

Posted on May 21, 2010 by kris

Take control of master pages and multiple page sizes.Today, just a few days after its first release, we released the first update for TransformMaster, bringing the version number to 1.0.5. TransformMaster (formerly known as EnslaveMaster) is a free Extension for … 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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ShowPaths 1.0 for Macintosh Released

Posted on January 7, 2010 by kris

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: https://www.rorohiko.com/showpaths

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TextExporter 2.1.3 Available

Posted on January 3, 2010 by kris

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

Posted on November 17, 2009 by kris

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.

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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