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AutoFit plug-in for InDesign CS4 released

By Cari Jansen | August 16, 2009

Typefi announced on Friday that the very cool AutoFit plug-in, a FREE plug-in for InDesign has been released for InDesign CS4. With this plug-in you can turn text frames into soft-bottom / soft-top frames that automatically grow as more text is inserted. Additionally an added tool in InDesigns toolbar allows the setting of relationships between frames, lines etc. So that when one object grows, the others follow :-)

See the following tips for some AutoFit tutorials:

Web-reference: AutoFit plug-in (2009, Typefi Systems)

Topics: Adobe, InDesign, Typefi Systems, plug-in | 10 Comments »

10 Responses to “AutoFit plug-in for InDesign CS4 released”

  1. Bob Levine says:
    August 17th, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Great stuff, Cari! Thanks.

  2. rupam says:
    February 10th, 2010 at 3:32 am

    could you please give me the link from where i can download the plugin

    Thanks
    Rupam

  3. Cari Jansen says:
    February 12th, 2010 at 8:42 am

    @rupam http://www.typefi.com/index.php/typefi-autofit is a link to the Typefi AutoFit download page. Enjoy the plug-in it really is a magical addition to InDesign.

  4. Andrei says:
    March 23rd, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    the plug-in works fine BUT the text box doesn’t resize if you change the font’s size or leading from the paragraph styles. hm?

  5. Cari Jansen says:
    March 26th, 2010 at 9:35 am

    @Andrei:

    As far as I know that works in the latest version of AutoFit for CS4 (just tested it). Are you sure you have changed the Resize option in the AutoFit panel for the text frame to “Resize From Top/Bottom/Centre”?

    Cari

  6. Andrei says:
    March 29th, 2010 at 1:12 am

    well, it doesn’t work for me:

    http://comparescreenshots.slicx.com/comparison/45168#

  7. Cari Jansen says:
    March 30th, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    Hi Andrei,

    I can replicate the issue you are seeing, when editing the leading in the Paragraph Style Options dialog. It indeed doesn’t work… wow! I will report to Typefi Systems for you.

    As a work-around if you want to edit the paragraph style:
    In the control panel, increase the font-size or leading… you’ll see it working in that case… then once you’re happy with the settings, right-click the paragraph style and then choose “redefine style” (or choose this from the paragraph style panel menu).

    Cheers,

    Cari

  8. Andrei says:
    March 31st, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Great! And thank’s for the tip; it also works if you reapply the style to the paragraph, so it’s really not that bad.

  9. Terri VandeVegte says:
    August 6th, 2010 at 4:06 am

    I like it! Works great for “normal” text frames – but what about a text frame containing a table? I was hoping if I added rows/columns to the table, the frame would automatically resize. Am I missing something?

    Thanks,
    Terri

  10. Cari Jansen says:
    August 11th, 2010 at 8:52 am

    @Terri as far as I’m aware that should work. Is it a stand-alone text frame? would the entire table fall within the frame?

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