As the user manual is still being finalized, there may be some little-known or underrated HurryCover 3 features that you may have missed. Want to save time when designing advanced book covers in InDesign? Here are the best shortcuts and hidden tricks…
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HurryCover³ | Top 8 Best Tips & Tricks
October 26, 2024 | HurryCover | en | fr
HurryCover³ | Make Book Covers & Jackets in InDesign
July 05, 2024 | HurryCover | en | fr
It’s official! Building a book cover in InDesign will no longer be a geometric nightmare. The new edition of HurryCover is intended to be a definitive answer to the puzzle of complex templates: with or without flaps, with or without wrap, whether you need a hinge margin or a physical spine gap, the template generated by HurryCover³ remains 100% resizable, even if you have already set up the graphic elements of your artwork…
Scripting: How to Position InDesign Guides
December 03, 2023 | Tips | en
InDesign guides are funny creatures. Whether or not they are assigned to a page via the fitToPage property, they remain firmly anchored to the geometry of the spread they belong to. The most mysterious thing is their location attribute, which does not obey all the principles ordinarily weighing on rulers coordinates. This article explores how to determine correct positions in all scenarios…
The Case of Converting InDesign Inches to Ciceros
July 26, 2022 | Tips | en
While working on his Measurements scripts, my colleague Mikhail Ivanyushin reported me weird biases related to units conversion. In particular, he observed a discrepancy between InDesign's display and direct results from ExtendScript when addressing inches-to-ciceros translation…
PhysicalSize | New Version (with Russian support)
April 18, 2021 | PhysicalSize | en | fr
PhysicalSize 1.07 is now available with a safer implementation of the menu controller and supporting the Russian locale. It also fixes a possible issue regarding HiDPI. This free script allows you to calibrate one or multiple monitors so you can display your layout in true 1:1 dimensions whenever needed…
Drawing Sine Waves in InDesign [UPDATE]
March 21, 2021 | Snippets | en | fr
Computing Bézier curves that really look like sine waves is an exciting challenge for script developers. One needs to deal with both optimizing control points, transforming coordinate spaces and splitting curves. Here is a function that solves it all in ExtendScript for InDesign…
ScriptUI vs. UI Scaling
March 08, 2021 | Tips | en
From CC 2014, InDesign and Illustrator interfaces needed to adapt to OS “scale settings” strategy on 4K/Retina displays. And with Windows 10 defaultly scaling at 150% in such resolutions, Adobe engineers were forced to rework their famous HiDPI support, which led to introduce UI Scaling in the Preferences dialog box. So far, so good. But ScriptUI has not been fully “informed” of these new rules…
PhysicalSize | Check Your Design At True 1:1 Magnification
February 08, 2019 | PhysicalSize | en | fr
Every InDesign user must accept this boring fact: “100% size preview is not actual size”. Because of this old unsolved flaw, graphic designers, layout artists, typographers… cannot trust the so-called “Actual Size” command. With PhysicalSize you will be able to recover your sight…
FillBleed | Fix Image Frames so they Meet the Bleed Edge [Update]
July 11, 2018 | Snippets | en | fr
On the Precision of HurryCover Measurements
March 04, 2017 | HurryCover | en | fr
User's question: “I have to enter in measurements to HurryCover that have more than four decimal point, such as .859375 inches. HC lets you enter this but then rounds it up to four spaces instead of the six that were entered. Is it actually making it the correct size and rounding up the number?”…
Equalizer PRO 3.0 released!
October 11, 2016 | Equalizer | en | fr
How much do you spend on manually repositioning objects, resizing or adjusting all frames when your layout is changing? How many times did you need to move all main blocks by a given offset on every page? Or to reset the scale of every inner image? Think about the time you lost in repeating those daily boring tasks again and again, then take a giant step in loading Equalizer 3 in your InDesign toolbox. Batch positioning and resizing in InDesign is now as easy as clicking the Run button…
New Features in Equalizer 3
April 19, 2016 | Equalizer | en | fr
While achieving Equalizer 3 I have implemented new—and old!—functionalities such as the Page Side Selector (so that you can manipulate right-sided pages only, for example) and (the much awaited return of) the Swap items feature. Here are a few snapshots of the next version…
Introducing Equalizer 3 for InDesign CS4-CC (UPDATE)
June 23, 2015 | Equalizer | en | fr
Suppose you need to shift a bunch of text frames by 10mm from the central axis of your layout (10mm to the right for right-hand pages, 10mm to the left for left-hand pages). Or suppose you have to reset to 90% the height of every picture owned by your "Thumbnails" layer… over the whole document! Or imagine any other daily boring task that involves changing locations and/or dimensions of objects in a repeated way. Equalizer 3 is just a powerful tool for designers who want to save their phalanges.
HurryCover 2.022 | InDesign CC Compatibility Patch
June 21, 2013 | HurryCover | en | fr
24-May-2024 OUTDATED POST. Please, go to the main product page for further details.
HurryCover 2 | Public PRO Release and User's Guide
November 07, 2012 | HurryCover | en | fr
24-May-2024 OUTDATED POST. Please, go to the main product page for further details.
HurryCover 2 | Book Covers and Dust Jackets Made Easy
July 03, 2012 | HurryCover | en | fr
24-May-2024 OUTDATED POST. Please, go to the main product page for further details.
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