Category Archives: Recipes

Distinguishing Photoshop EPS From Illustrator EPS

Posted on January 4, 2010 by kris

Soxy 1.0.4 for Macintosh adds support for EPS files. Thanks to Soxy, one can double-click an EPS file icon in the Finder – and any Photoshop EPS file will open in Photoshop; any Illustrator EPS files will open in Illustrator. … 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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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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How to Populate a Template With Images in No Time At All

Posted on September 16, 2009 by kris

This short article will explain how you can set up a template with a bunch of image frames, and then populate this template with images, much faster than you’d expect, using Adobe InDesign CS3 or above. The secret to this … Continue reading →

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Generate brand new 6×6 Sudoku puzzles straight into an InDesign page

Posted on June 28, 2009 by kris

The SudokuGenerator has been updated to version 1.1.0 – this latest version adds support for 6×6 sudoku, with 3×2 (HxV) subcells. 6×6 sudoku puzzles are smaller, and less intensive to solve than their 9×9 brethern – I estimate they would … Continue reading →

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Things that didn’t work – BootCamp and Backup

Posted on June 18, 2009 by kris

I thought I’d share some failures with the world – this might save someone some headache and hassle, who knows. Here’s the deal: I had Windows Vista installed on a BootCamp partition on my MacBook Pro. I am pretty religous … Continue reading →

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Soxy 0.1.5 Released

Posted on June 1, 2009 by kris

Soxy for Macintosh has some new features. The latest version knows how to handle InDesign .jsx script files. Instead of stashing your .jsx files into the InDesign Scripts Panel folder, you can now simply tell the Mac Finder to assign … Continue reading →

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Using StoryTweaker to make text updates to an InDesign document

Posted on March 25, 2009 by kris

A test version of Rorohiko StoryTweaker can be downloaded here: http://storytweaker.com In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at a scenario where StoryTweaker is used to make text corrections to a few articles in a newspaper. In case you’re more interested … Continue reading →

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Using Lightning Brain FrameReporter

Posted on January 15, 2009 by kris

Lightning Brain FrameReporter is a US$29.00 plug-in for Adobe InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 or CS4. In this recipe, we’ll highlight each of the individual LB FrameReporter tidbits, and explain what they could be useful for. If you want to follow … Continue reading →

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