Category Archives: News

Creative Developers Summit, July 10 and 11 2024, Washington DC

Posted on June 5, 2024 by kris

The 2024 Creative Developer Summit happens on July 10 and 11, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott hotel in Washington, D.C. Make sure to read this blog post: This independent developer get-together is organized by developers for developers. Come and join your tribe! … Continue reading →

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Adobe Developers Live – June 19 + 20, 2024

Posted on June 5, 2024 by kris

Join Kris for ‘Adobe Developers Live’, organized by Adobe for everyone who develops – or would like to develop – add-ons, plugins or integrations for Adobe Express or Creative Cloud. Whether in San Francisco, New York, Hamburg, or virtually from … Continue reading →

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Eliminate Word Stacks and Hyphenation Stacks in InDesign

Posted on June 3, 2024 by kris

Find and clear up word stacks and hyphenation stacks from your InDesign document. SmokeWordStacks is a free script designed to help you quickly find these issues. This script originated at CreativeProWeek, back in 2015. We revamped it and modernized it. … Continue reading →

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Revamping our activation system: PluginInstaller

Posted on May 29, 2024 by kris

We’re Revamping Our Software Activation System Over the years, we’ve been dedicated to providing high-quality scripts, plugins, and extensions to enhance your Adobe Creative Cloud experience. We appreciate the support and loyalty you’ve shown us, especially those who have been … Continue reading →

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Export All Text From InDesign Document to MS Word

Posted on May 16, 2024 by kris

We’ve released TextExporter 5, an updated version of TextExporter for InDesign. The new version relies on PluginInstaller for licensing and activation. No more fiddling with activation files. From within PluginInstaller, you can download and install TextExporter, try it out for … Continue reading →

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JSXGetURL: set curl options from ExtendScript

Posted on April 25, 2024 by kris

JSXGetURL enhances ExtendScript in any Adobe Creative Cloud app, to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. JSXGetURL has been updated to use curl 8.7.1, OpenSSL 3.3.0, zlib 1.3.1 and Tightener … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024, Mac OS X, News, Recipes, Scripters & Developers, Windows | Tagged Adobe, asset, Cloud, Creative, curl, ExtendScript, http, https, remote, Script, Server, URL | Comments Off

ZXPSignCmd/ExtensionManager alternative: PluginInstaller handles both JSX and CEP

Posted on April 25, 2024 by kris

We added support for CEP into PluginInstaller, a tool that is part of Creative Developer Tools (CRDT). If you have either an ExtendScript script, or CEP extension software that you want to protect/track/monetize…, make sure to check this out. PluginInstaller handles the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Recipes, Scripters & Developers, Uncategorized, Windows | Tagged Adobe, CEP, CEP Extension, Code Sign, ExtendScript, Extension Manager, Install, JSXBIN, Script, ZXPSignCmd | Comments Off

JSXGetURL for ExtendScript

Posted on March 25, 2024 by kris

JSXGetURL enhances ExtendScript to make it easy to access servers using http, https, sftp… – e.g. to download assets from a remote server. It works with any of the Adobe Creative Cloud apps that support ExtendScript. We also have a special version for … Continue reading →

Posted in 2022, 2023, 2024, InCopy, InDesign, Mac OS X, News, Windows | Tagged access URL, ExtendScript, ftp, http, https, InDesign, InDesign Server, Server, sftp, URL | Comments Off

Massive InDesign Script List

Posted on February 7, 2020 by kris

Here’s an interesting list of a very wide range of useful InDesign scripts: https://redokun.com/blog/indesign-scripts

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Soxy

Posted on December 16, 2019 by kris

Sadly enough, Soxy is now end-of-life and won’t be upgraded or updated any further. Soxy is a 32-bit application; it won’t run on macOS Catalina. The last few years, the cost of building an update to Soxy for every update … Continue reading →

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