Yesterday Adobe announced long awaited Creative Cloud Connection preview app “that runs on your computer that allows you to easily manage your files on Creative Cloud and doesn’t require using the Creative Cloud web page to upload/download files” says Adobe. It’s working really great. As it says, it’s a preview release, and it will be …
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Few months ago I’ve got an idea about creating a script, or something like that, to manage GREP styles. Unfortunately, I didn’t enough time to finish it. Finally, on Friday, I started to develop it, and after a few hours of coding I’ve finished the first beta release! So, let’s see how it’s working! Currently, …
Live Captions were introduced in InDesign CS5 and functionality is the same in CS5.5 as well. Live Captions are very powerful when it comes to pulling metadata out of the image and displaying them on the page. But, why are they called “Live”? Because they are! They are like regular text variables, but they are …
When I started scripting, about a year ago, I was really frustrated that app.selection didn’t returned correct selection order I used while selecting objects, instead, it returned sorted selection by object ID’s. To make things even worse, just few versions back, app.selection DID returned correct selection order! So, somebody messed things really bad! Few people …
This is wonderful news especially for InDesign users! So, what’s new in this mid-cycle release?! Let’s list most important ones: EPUB Export Improvements Style Mapping Articles Panel Linked Stories Object Export Options DPS Tablet Features Easier Anchored Objects Also, bunch of old bugs from previous releases are corrected! But, that’s not all! Some CS5 users …
As you probably know, layers really important when creating complex layouts. Layers in last version of InDesign (CS5) are radically improved! Till now, you could just manage top-level layers, but starting with CS5, top-level layers can be expanded and you can see complete object structure! (for more info about layers in CS5, read great article …
Have you ever received document with all links embedded into it? It’s not everyday scene, but it happens, and InDesign has option to unembed link(s) to folder. But, if you have bunch of links, you need to sort them first, select just embedded ones and then click Unembed Link from Links panel menu, or from …
Keyboard shortcuts are a big time saver! And when I say big, I mean BIG! I love shortcuts, and by time, they become part of you, and your everyday workflow! But! It’s becoming difficult to remember all shortcuts when you use more than one program, and I know you do! So, I decided to create …
I think you still remember my old post about Auto Apply Object Style to Placed Image. That’s great workaround, but I’ve “found” even better one through scripting! Scripting is just awesome! So many things can be done with just few lines of code. WARNING: This only works with InDesign CS5! So, let’s see how to …
Two weeks ago I started small personal project. Main idea was to collect all predefined shortcuts for InDesign CS5 to one place and create interactive guide. While i was digging through files, I got really surprised first by number of shortcuts that can be applied (over than 1400) and secondly that InDesign ships with more …