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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...