Don’t Skip This Step! Download the Latest Version!! If you’re having trouble activating your Id-Extras product, the first thing to do is make sure you are using the latest version! This is crucial. Earlier versions are very likely not to...

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Another update to V-Justify has been released. Version 1.6.2 includes a couple of important new features, as well as several bug fixes. New Feature: The new “Justification Target” area A new “Justification Target” area has been added to the UI...

How to split a table in InDesign? There is no simple way to split a table in InDesign! By splitting a table, I mean dividing it into two tables. Say you have a table with 1000 rows. You want to...

560 pages. 2,928 fonts. 162 languages. 14,560 data points. Id-Extras.com helped Atelier Carvalho Bernau turn a potentially gruelling manual production job into a repeatable, data-driven InDesign workflow for Typotheque’s monumental type specimen. The finished publication contains 560 pages, 2,928 fonts,...

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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...

There is now a new forum for Id-Extras product help: https://forum.id-extras.com/ A link to the forum is also available in the main menu bar above. I’m keeping it simple for now – just one forum for all product questions and...

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...

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...

If you find the new Adobe Forums design incredibly wasteful with screen real estate, you’re not alone! Here’s what it looks like to date:     I played around with the CSS a little, and created instead a “compact” version....

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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...

The new release of InDesign, 2019, is here with some great new features. But there is one change that may be unwanted. The new InDesign comes with a new internal serial number. Since 2012, every Creative Cloud version of InDesign...

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...

While working on a book in InDesign recently, I needed to switch the position of two paragraphs throughout the 400-page book. There were 2 paragraph styles involved: A “Quote” style, and a “Source” style. In the book as I had...

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July 2018 UPDATE: If you’re looking to export multiple PDFs, using multiple PDF export presets, into multiple folders, using super-flexible filenaming options (including filenames based on the contents of the page itself), our newly updated Extract Pages script is for you!...

When converting a print book to reflowable ePub in InDesign, I always use the Custom CSS option, available in InDesign’s ePub export dialog. Adding an external, custom CSS file makes it easy (where possible) to tweak the final output to...

Every so often, the question is raised how to add delimiters (commas, or thin spaces, etc.) between groups of 3 digits in long numbers in InDesign. It would seem like this is something a clever GREP search could do, but in...

Many of the posts on this blog include fully-functional sample scripts. To use these sample scripts, you must copy–paste them into a text editor such as Notepad (not into a word processor!) and then save them with a .jsx extension. The...

If you’re a guest at someone’s house, wouldn’t you agree that it is bad manners to leave a mess behind you when you go? Likewise, when a user runs your script, I’m sure you’d agree that the user shouldn’t have...

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JavaScript’s Date object can be a difficult beast to tame. In terms of the number of properties and methods it has, it must be one of the largest core JavaScript classes out there. However, using it requires some careful thinking,...

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