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We’re pleased to announce that the DeepL Translate script has been updated to version 3.2.0, with two major improvements! Let’s Keep It Informal! It is now possible to select the formality level when making a translation! DeepL does not support...
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Mastermatic has been updated to version 2.4.0. A scrollbar now appears to the right of the paragraph-styles–master-page list if there are too many pairs to fit comfortably on the screen. This means that there is no longer any limit to...
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We’ve been busy over the last few months with updates to several popular scripts, as well a major change to how scripts are activated. Let’s begin with that! Out with the serial numbers, in with the email-address activation We’ve updated...
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I was asked the following question regarding the Id-Extras DeepL Translate add-on: We have run a number of major translations and there is a noticeable difference between this and the online version of DeepL. Is the latest API implemented in...
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The following free script will set all files that are part of an InDesign book (.indb) to use automatic page numbering. Specifically, it will change the options of the first section of each file in the book (except the first...
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Page Numbers to Words has been updated to version 1.2.0. This version fixes an InDesign bug where the position of the frame containing the page numbers might shift if it was originally on a master page. What the user would...
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Fit Page to Selection has been updated to version 1.2.0. This version fixes a bug where the position of other items on the spread that were not selected would shift position when the page was resized to match the selection....
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We’re pleased to announce the release of new update to V-Justify, the InDesign script that puts you in full control of InDesign’s vertical justification. New in version 1.5.1 is the ability to justify individual columns, not just all the columns...
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V-Justify has received another important update that changes quite a lot of things. First, there are now 5 options in the Justification Style dropdown: Prefer Tight, Prefer Loose, Loosen Only, Tighten Only, and Minimum Change. They are fully described on the product page (here)...
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I’m excited to announce a major new update to Footwork – the InDesign add-on for creating multi-column and run-on footnotes. Version 3 introduces three important new features: I. Full support for endnotes-as-footnotes. A new option, “Detach as endnotes” can be found...
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Extract Pages has just received an important bug fix. Bug Description If “Split by Paragraph Style” is chosen, the first file created includes all pages from the start of the document up to and including the first instance of the...
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Extract Pages, the InDesign add-on that makes it easy to generate small InDesign files from one big one, as well as export multiple PDFs, JPGs, PNGs, and more, has been updated to version 2.0. Version 2.0 comes with a number...
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Dropword III – the InDesign script for creating whole-word dropcaps (essential for traditional Hebrew typography) has been updated to version 3.5.3. Occasionally, Dropword did not correctly create a gap under the first word of the paragraph. This occurred when the...
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New InDesign Script: Fit Page to Selection...
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Hyperlink Pro has been updated to version 2.1.6. This fixes a bug: If a hyperlink in the document was immediately followed by a footnote reference or anchored object marker, the footnote or anchored object would be deleted. Additionally, Hyperlink Pro...
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There have been updates to many Id-Extras add-ons recently. In most cases, emails were sent out to anyone who had purchased the product in question, but not always. And since January there has been no “Script Update News” on the...
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Change Consecutive Paragraphs Pro Two small, but important, fixes are available in the latest update (version 2.1.1) to Change Consecutive Paragraphs Pro, the InDesign script that makes document formatting a doddle! The batch-editor has now been updated to work with...
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FormMaker makes it easy to create rich, interactive PDF forms in InDesign. It fills the huge gaps left in InDesign’s interactive PDF forms capabilities, allowing you to set text alignment in form fields, as well as set the text color, add...
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FormMagic has been updated to version 2.0.0. New features include: Field rotation. Acrobat has four rotation options for form fields (0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees). Until now, it was not possible to rotate fields with FormMagic. But with the...
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Extract Pages has been updated to version 1.7.2. This version fixes a bug: If PDF export is chosen, and the option to export groups of pages is selected, and a PDF file with the same name already exists in the...
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FormMaker makes it easy to create rich, interactive PDF forms in InDesign. It fills the huge gaps left in InDesign’s interactive PDF forms capabilities, allowing you to set text alignment in form fields, as well as set the text color,...
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Grep to Anchored Object has been updated to version 2.5.5. New features and bug fixes include: A new option to anchor the object to the start of the current paragraph, so now there are 3 anchoring options: (1) To the...
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Extract Pages has been updated to version 1.7.0. As well as breaking up large InDesign files into smaller files, with the new version you can now output not only PDFs but also PNGs, JPEGs and interactive PDFs! All the powerful...
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Display Line Numbers – the popular line numbering add-on for Adobe InDesign – has now been updated to version 4.1.0. Version 4.1.0 includes: Full support for text frames containing endnotes. Bug fix for InDesign 2020: Owing to an Adobe bug,...
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QuickResize is the InDesign script that adjusts and resizes your layout to whatever new size (dimensions can be specified in cm, mm, inches, point, picas) or percentage of the old size desired. No “artificial intelligence” is used in the process...
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After a long wait, the latest version of InDesign, 2019, has finally introduced the ability to select a font for interactive PDF form fields. Until today, interactive form fields created in InDesign would always be set to Times Roman when...
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In this month’s Script Update News I’m covering recent updates to three of our popular scripts: Line Numbers (a golden oldie, but still going strong), Extract Pages (major update here), and Hyperlink Pro (a couple of great new features). Line...
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There’s a thirst and a hunger out there, folks – not for bread and not for water, but for InDesign scripts! Savvy InDesign users can’t seem to get enough of them, and you know what? They are 100% right. If you...
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A new version of the Change Consecutive Paragraphs Pro has been released, with an emphasis on making it easier to construct batches. Thanks to Raphaël Freeman of Renana Typesetting for suggesting many of these ideas! With version 2.0.5: The Batch Editor remembers...
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A common scenario is described in the following email: Help! My old PC has been replaced/sold/crashed/lost/stolen. I’ve reinstalled InDesign on my new PC/Mac, but when I try to activate the Id-Extras InDesign add-on, I get an error message saying: “This serial...
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InDesign is usually pretty well-behaved about applying the specified paragraph style to footnotes in a document. By “well-behaved,” I mean that InDesign seems to respect the setting in the Footnote Options dialog that specifies the paragraph style to use for...
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A new version of Hyperlink Pro has been released. Version 2.0.3 includes an important fix: Previously, if Hyperlink Pro was run twice on the same text, the URL (the actual web address associated with the hyperlink) would include the discretionary...
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You may sometimes notice that FormMagic converts Arial to Helvetica, and sometimes it doesn’t. In this blog post, I will try to explain what’s going on and how to get predictable results. FormMagic can create regular text fields, and rich-text...
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Contents Introduction Basic Custom File Naming Overwriting Existing Files Advanced Custom File Naming First Page <fp> and <+fp> Last Page <lp> and <+lp> File Name <fn> Counter # Conditional Text […] Section Marker <sm> Alternate Layout Name <alt> Paragraph Style...
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Using FormMagic or FormMaker is a 2-step process. First, FormMagic must be run on the InDesign file. Then, it must be run again in Acrobat on the resulting interactive PDF. In this post, I will show how to create an action in Acrobat...
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With FormMaker, not only is it possible to produce fully-formatted Acrobat forms in InDesign as with FormMagic, it is even possible to attach Acrobat validation, calculation, and formatting scripts to each form field right inside InDesign. You can also add document...
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If you’ve ever been frustrated at having to hunt down your favorite Id-Extras add-on or script in InDesign’s script panel – and if, like me, you’ve got dozens of scripts in there – here’s some good news! Id-Extras products can now be...
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The latest version of Auto Char Styles – version 2.2 – has just been released. Auto Char Styles is a great InDesign add-on that solves a basic InDesign need: Applying a character style to all text overrides in an InDesign document. Marking...
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LiveIndex is a great script for converting the page references in the index of a book into interactive hyperlinks. It is particularly useful when a professional index has been made for the book, rather than relying on InDesign’s built-in indexing feature,...
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I’ve taken advantage of the past week to update four scripts in the Id-Extras.com library: Auto Character Styles, Line Numbers, Sections Stuff, and Fit Text to Frame, this last one being the biggest update of the four, and in fact...
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