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Creative Suite LIVE - Melbourne (follow-up)

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Updated 5-Sep-2008 (fixed incorrect web-link)
The following list provides an overview of the Plug-ins and Scripts reviewed during the InDesign Add-Ons session at the Creative Suite LIVE Conference - Melbourne 28-29 September 2008.

Typefi AutoFit short video added

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

As promised at last week’s Melbourne InDesign UserGroup, I’ve added a new short Typefi AutoFit video to the Typefi Systems web-page from which you can download this free InDesign plug-in. The video covers soft-bottom frames and bulding of multiple relationships as part of a more complex design element.
Web-reference: Typefi AutoFit (2008, Typefi Systems)

Automatic Frame Resizing with AutoFit

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Digitip 066 - Adobe InDesign CS3 / Typefi AutoFit
The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign.  In this tip you’ll learn how text is run into a Header-Text Frame and a Body Content Text-Frame that are threaded to eachother. As the […]

Publisher to InDesign

Friday, December 7th, 2007

It’s quite exciting to see that more and more Microsoft Publisher users are making the jump across to Adobe InDesign. If you are a Microsoft Publisher user and have lots of old Publisher files and would like to convert to InDesign without having to recreate your files in InDesign, Markzware’s PUB2ID plug-in for InDesign can […]

Typefi AutoFit Plug-in for InDesign

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Typefi Systems on Friday announced the release of a Free Plug-in for Adobe InDesign called Typefi AutoFit. The Plug-in is now available for download and works with CS3 and CS2. This snazzy plug-in enables you to set Text Frame Growth behaviour as more text is inserted in Text Frames as well as relationships between Frames, […]

Round Corners and Text Inset

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Digitip 059 - Adobe InDesign CS3/ Typefi AutoFit
At the InDesign Conference, a gentleman in the audience asked “when I set a text inset for Text Frame, and apply different insets for Top, Left, Right and Bottom, I loose this functionality when I apply a Corner Option to the frame, it turns to Inset”.” Is there […]

Art Files for Illustrator

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Code Line Communications has produced a stand-alone application for Mac OS (PPC and Universal Binary) that makes packaging Illustrator files for delivery of original .ai file including graphics and fonts to service providers an easier task.
Web Reference: ArtFiles (2007, Code Line Communications)

MIF Filter 1.0 Beta - InDesign

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

FrameMaker uses the MIF, it’s own Maker Interchange Format, that can be used for sharing of files between FrameMaker versions amongst things. MIF Filter (beta) is an InDesign import filter for Adobe FrameMaker documents. This plug-in for InDesign CS2 supports Mac and Windows platforms.
Web Reference: MIF Filter (2006, Goldwein Research)

Georeferencing plug-in Photoshop

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Avenza released a while ago a georeferencing plug-in for Photoshop CS2: Geographic Imager. A suite of plug-ins available for Mac and PC, that uses georeferencing data to create mosaics of mutliple images, and applies required transformations, whilst retaining access to the georeferencing information. The application uses Ground Control Points for positioning purposes and is useful […]

Q2ID Plug-in

Friday, November 4th, 2005

You are using QuarkXPress 5.x or 6.x and are interested in making the move to InDesign? GREAT!!!
Markzware has been kind enough to help you out with Q2ID. It converts Quark 5 and 6 documents into a native InDesign document format. As long as InDesign supports the feature/item you’ve used in Quark (and that will be […]

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