Category Archives: Recipes

KCCSizer released. Drag/Drop JPEG Files To Fit In 1920x1080px, < 1MB

Posted on November 28, 2014 by kris

KCCSizer is a small free tool for photographers. It downscales one or more dropped JPEG files so they fit in an area of 1920 x 1080 pixels, and are compressed to a file size of 1MB or less. You can achieve the … Continue reading →

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Replace Words By Images And Vice Versa. Free Script For InDesign CS5 And Above.

Posted on June 24, 2014 by kris

Swimmer. Replace words with images. CreativeWow! One of the sessions at PePcon 2014 was called CreativeWow! Sneak Peeks by Creative Developers. http://www.pepcon.com/session/creativewow-sneak-peeks-creative-developers-2014/ The aim: a meeting of minds between graphic designers and creative software developers. Script Challenge! Attendees to PePcon were … Continue reading →

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Add Printable Swatch Samples To An InDesign Document

Posted on May 4, 2014 by kris

SwatchWatch is a free InDesign script we’ve created to automatically add a grid of printable swatch samples at the end of an InDesign document. Supports InDesign CS5 and above. More info in this case study: https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/swatchwatcher-case-study/

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Batcher 0.0.5: Automatically Batch-Execute An InDesign Script On Many Files.

Posted on October 10, 2013 by kris

Batcher 0.0.5 has been released. With this tool, you can batch execute InDesign scripts. Batcher can take many existing InDesign scripts (.jsx files) and add batch processing features to them. Most of the time, there is no need for changes … Continue reading →

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Easily decompress EPUB, edit it, and recompress.

Posted on October 8, 2013 by kris

eCanCrusher is a simple drag/drop utility to recompress and decompress EPUB folders/directory structures. It converts folder into an .epub file and vice versa. We have both Mac and Windows versions available. Download links on this page: https://www.rorohiko.com/ePubCrawler Look under the heading … Continue reading →

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Easily Edit Stacking/Reading Order Of Page Items In InDesign

Posted on September 17, 2013 by kris

We’ve just released FrameReporter 1.1.4, which adds a new info-label called ‘z-order’. Download the latest and greatest here – it supports InDesign CS4 and upwards: https://www.rorohiko.com/framereporter On this page you’ll find a fully functional, time-limited demo version. You can try … Continue reading →

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PlaceAutoSynchronizer: Live Text And Image Links In InDesign

Posted on August 20, 2013 by kris

We’ve finally updated our PlaceAutoSynchronizer freebie to support InDesign CC (as well as CS6, CS5.5,… all the way down to CS). PlaceAutoSynchronizer adds a ‘live link’ feature to Adobe InDesign: as soon as the linked image or text file on … Continue reading →

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Rorohiko TV

Posted on July 30, 2013 by kris

We’ve collected our loose video collection into a single YouTube channel, which should make it easier to find them. Go here to check it out: http://rorohiko.tv At present, we have a bunch of tutorials available for Tada QR! and ePubCrawler. Also a tutorial … Continue reading →

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How To Extend InDesign Text Styling Range To Include Punctuation

Posted on June 21, 2013 by kris

Recently, I received an interesting question: would it be possible to use our StylePainter freebie to exert some GREP magic and judiciously extend the style range of a particular style? This was to clean up some text, were some styling … Continue reading →

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Export All Hyphenation Points With ePubCrawler

Posted on December 12, 2012 by kris

ePubCrawler 0.2.4 or higher has an interesting feature: it can find all the hyphenation points in all the words in a document, and convert them to discretionary hyphens in the XHTML output. ePubCrawler is our ‘work-in-progress’ of a tool for … Continue reading →

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