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.
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)
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 text is formatted with…read more →
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 come to your rescue.
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, Lines etc. These relationships in…read more →
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 anyway around this?” The…read more →
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)
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)