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…
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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…
What’s New in IndexMatic³ [UPDATE]
March 06, 2023 | IndexMatic³ | en | fr
Imagine you can extract, quantify, analyze and index every bit of text from your InDesign documents, in any language, based on your own criteria: a predefined word list, a set of fine-tuned regular expressions, such or such character styles or containers. This tool has just been born and is called IndexMatic³.
Page Range Formatter [UPDATE]
August 17, 2021 | Tips | en
Given an unordered set of page numbers—e.g. {13, 9, 25, 12, 11, 8}—we often have to compute and output a range specification in the form "8-9; 11-13; 25". While this topic has been already discussed in the InDesign scripting forum, I'd like to explore today a slightly different approach…
FillBleed | Fix Image Frames so they Meet the Bleed Edge [Update]
July 11, 2018 | Snippets | en | fr
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…
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.
Dealing with Rotated Spread Views in a Script
March 10, 2010 | Snippets | en | fr
“Rotate the spread view” is a nice feature introduced in InDesign CS4. It will prevent you from getting a stiff neck when working on rotated contents such as book spine or landscape tables. Great! Now the bad news: it seems that the DOM does not provide any means to check a rotated spread by scripting. No property, no access method. So what?
Swapping and Reordering Pages
December 01, 2009 | Snippets | en
The InDesign Pages panel lets you manually rearrange the pages of your publication. To move pages around in the work document, it's just needed to click and drag the page icon(s) within the railroad —while paying attention to ‘shuffling’ effects! JavaScript allows you to automate the same handling, which can be very useful when you have a number of pages to switch.