If you are interested in high-quality image output from InDesign, you might want to limit how much you scale images — both up and down.

Using Scale Alert, you will see a warning every time you print the document with images scaled outside your requests. You can define scaling based on resulting DPI or percentage. This plug-in is free after registration. Put extra information in the slug area. You can collect font usage, image usage, and even a complete log of every user that has modified the document, and this plug-in will update the information automatically.

You can also add version and print counters to the document, making it easy to find the latest print if you have to choose between multiple prints that have been “shuffled. This plug-in allows you to control iTunes directly in InDesign. You get an InDesign palette where you can select playlists and tracks. Transparency, drop shadows, and other effects used with OPI layout images are processed correctly. Extra features like packaging with layout or high-resolution images and relinking all images with one click are made available through the OPI Manager palette.

Managing Editor Inc. K4 administers users, publications, access privileges, production components, and workflow statuses, offering a true relational database management system that runs on all major platforms. It increases production security by warning you if the document contains overset text when you print or export a file. It is the ideal tool for anyone dealing with text-heavy files on a regular basis.

An additional palette provides multiple options for sorting, filtering, and viewing notes by author, date, and content. It provides a quick, easy, and affordable way for you to migrate Publisher content to InDesign as new InDesign documents. The file conversion is enabled with a single click using the Markzware menu item.

Items that can be converted from Publisher to InDesign include page size, positioning, color models, fonts and styles, text attributes and tables, text flow, layers, text wrap, and linked text boxes, with automatic extraction of images embedded in the Publisher file. It provides a quick, easy, and affordable method for you to migrate content from QuarkXPress to InDesign in a new document.

The data conversion is enabled with a single click using the Markzware menu item. Markzware Q2ID file conversion software provides intricate details of the content within a QuarkXPress document to be instantly re-created within InDesign. Items that can be converted from QuarkXPress to InDesign include page positioning, color models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes and anchored boxes, pantone colors, and other color models.

AutoPrice is used for performing pricing updates on catalogs, retail flyers, and similar publications, as well as updating phone lists, timetables, or any other type of information that can be referenced by a key value such as a product number SKU.

DesignMerge Pro Bundle is an award-winning suite of software designed specifically for the variable data market and now available for InDesign. Providing sophisticated mail merge, variable data printing, and data publishing features, easy-to-use DesignMerge is menu driven and works with any InDesign document. Page Printer for InDesign allows the user to output each page or spread of a multipage document as a separate file, with a choice of outputs, formats, and naming options.

Page Printer is a valuable tool for anyone who works with third-party imposition systems or publishes PDF pages to the web. DragIn The DragIn pagination plug-in automatically draws text boxes for your NewsEditPro stories and pictures including cutlines and headlines , allows you to save changes made on the page back to your NewsEditPro files, checks for updates to stories and pictures that have already been placed, and more.

Browse while you design and enjoy dropping the best-suited components directly into your InDesign page. QwikMarx QwikMarx is your solution for building more accurate layouts, making it easier for everyone involved to see the dimension marks onscreen or in a printout.

With QwikMarx, these marks are displayed for you on the document itself. This means as an ad moves through the stages of publication, each person working on the ad has a precise understanding of what the trim, live, and bleed dimensions are, as well as what the fold dimensions are.

This ensures that a person looking at the ad always has the exact dimensions of the ad, whether it has been built scaled down or printed at a reduced size. Once installed on Mac OS or Windows, CFG provides menu selections that let users import and export as many boxes of text as they want at the same time with a simple mouse click.

MathMagic Pro is specially designed for use with InDesign for any equations and mathematical symbols. GoPublish GoPublish is a complete publishing tool built around a browser interface and using InDesign for page layout.

This system is aimed directly at those publishers who are looking for a simple, cost-effective solution that will enhance their existing workflow, not redesign it. GoPublish stores all your advertising, editorial, and planning information and brings it together into a comprehensive, coordinated workflow. Using a built-in security model, GoPublish will mirror your organizational structure, providing different activity and access levels for all users. With its unique workflow technology, GoPublish enables writers, editors, and designers to work simultaneously on the same InDesign CS document without overwriting each other’s changes, while InCopy CS streamlines editorial revision and review cycles, helping to improve the speed of prepress production.

GoGet provides automatic graphic import at your fingertips. GoGet increases the functionality and efficiency within InDesign. Use GoGet to automatically import your graphics from any given file structure. Draw your image box on the page, add the GoGet filename tag, and you’re ready to import. Paladin Unit Converter Paladin Unit Converter adds a palette to InDesign that makes conversions among more than units of length, volume, and weight.

Adapt With all the functionality offered by traditional large-scale publishing systems, the Adapt system goes much further by offering newspapers the ability to smoothly migrate their existing publishing workflow to an InDesign based system.

QuickPrint QuickPrint performs quality control checks to ensure that your job matches the specifications set by individual publishers and that it reproduces as intended. PDF2ID PDF2ID is a PDF document conversion tool for InDesign that converts PDF documents into a fully editable InDesign file It re-creates the intended construction and layout of the document by forming paragraphs, applying styles, regrouping independent graphic elements, extracting images, creating tables, and recovering annotations and other elements automatically.

Events such as startup, open and close of documents, and print can all trigger the execution of the scripts you choose. Magma Effects enables you to apply various image-enhancement and stylizing effects directly to any bitmap image placed in InDesign.

Enhance photos with color or white point adjustment and sharpening. Apply special effects such as star-shines, zoom-blurs, and glass distortion. Make your images stand out without ever having to leave InDesign for another application. Lightning Brain LayerLifter. Lightning Brain LikeFindsLike. Lightning Brain LikeFindLike helps you quickly select similar items that are scattered over a page or spread.

Instead of having to Shift-click-click Lightning Brain TextStitch. Lightning Brain TextStitch helps the user reduce the number of clicks needed to thread and unthread multiframe text flows. Two threading methods are provided: Quick Stitch for threading frames in a user-defined order with a single mouse click per frame, and Auto-Stitch for fully automated threading of loose frames. Lightning Brain ClipAThing. Lightning Brain ChatterGoofy. Compatible with Jabberwocky, it accepts exported Jabberwocky sets.

Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader. This plug-in allows users to select a folder and automatically fill a floating palette with any images it contains. Using ImageLibraryLoader for managing the images is much faster than attempting to place the images using conventional means, like placing them or using Adobe Bridge. Lightning Brain Color2Gray. Lightning Brain Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color bitmap images to grayscale without modifying the original color image.

The original image is not changed and remains in color, yet it is output as a grayscale image. Lightning Brain Text Exporter. The Text Exporter plug-in allows users to export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file.

The features include:. Active Page Item Developer Toolkit. Check out freebies for examples of what can be achieved. Lightning Brain StoryParker. Lightning Brain StoryParker helps to manage cluttered pages. Every page item can be temporarily “parked,” that is, put aside, somewhere on the pasteboard.

Later on, with a single click, it can be moved back to exactly where it came from. If you’re publishing a newspaper, magazine, or newsletter, this plug-in will enable you to generate one or more Sudoku puzzles directly in an InDesign CS or CS2 document — for example, for a puzzle page or to generate whole booklets of Sudoku puzzles. You’re in control of the look and feel of the generated puzzles — and the generator takes care of actually building them for you.

Place and Scale. With Place and Scale, automatically scale placed bitmap images photographs up or down when placing to exactly match a preset output resolution. Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color bitmap images to grayscale without modifying the original color image. The gray image will only render on the black K plate. Sudoku Generator. Sudoku Generator allows you to generate one or more unique new Sudoku puzzles in an InDesign document and to generate corresponding solution pages as well — ideal for automatically generating Sudoku books.

The TextExporter scripted plug-in saves all stories of an InDesign document into a single output file. Catalog Composer 4. XPublisha is a tool for variable data publishing and catalog publishing automation. This means you can flow thousands of records into hundreds of pages without working up a sweat. Fractions’N’Prices is a plug-in for InDesign that automates the formatting of fractions and prices in text on the page.

It also allows you to remove all manual kerning applied between characters or to remove kerning from a kerning pair. It allows you to search, retrieve, and archive assets from within InDesign over the web without a browser or a desktop application. With InDesign HTTP, you can readily manage all your digitized files — images, graphics, text, logos, documents, and web pages — enabling easy and timely enterprise-wide access and feeding efficiently into traditional and new media publishing channels.

Split Box is a revolutionary plug-in for InDesign that allows users to quickly split standard InDesign text and image boxes into works of art.

Use simple pull-down menus for great-looking effects, or combine multiple effects. The SmartWriter plug-in analyzes your work while you are creating a document and automatically delivers related and supportive material to your screen for immediate use.

Silicon Connector lets you link directly from InDesign to assets on the web or a web-hosted DAM system, reducing the time spent on multiple steps required for file-based linking or WebDAV. Rather than move files around network file shares and re-link, or package up linked assets, a single drag-and-drop makes an enduring link accessible to the InDesign file from any Mac or PC with a web connection.

SoftCare K2 This Workgroup Publishing Solution combines the power and reliability of large systems with the special requirements of smaller sized publishing houses, creative agencies, or companies. Optimum InDesign and InCopy integration guarantees maximum speed and top-level professional publishing, with easy handling. SoftCare Notes Manager 3. Editorial staff will communicate more efficiently using notes, as displaying and navigating notes is easier and faster.

SoftCare Overset Manager 5. The SoftCare Overset Manager plug-in gives you complete control over text length and text overset, enabling you to count, display, edit, and print overset text. SoftCare Overset Manager is the ideal tool for everybody dealing with text-intensive files on a regular basis.

Simple, fast barcodes for Adobe InDesign. One simple palette lets you customize over 50 different barcodes any way you want. Creates vector based EPS files that you can embed into your document or link on disk. Link data anywhere on an InDesign page, or merge data into a document and into tables too.

DataLinker integrates with BarcodeMaker to let you mass produce barcodes. This free plug-in brings high quality PostScript patterns to InDesign. Fill any frame with a pattern, then modify, tweak and reinvent each pattern into unlimited variations! You can also purchase an additional 13 patterns with our PatternPack plug-in.

Spec Cubed Spec Cubed provides a simple, powerful way to visually analyze the contents of your InDesign documents. By analyzing over attributes, ranging from leading and tracking to drop shadow properties and effective raster resolution, Spec Cubed radically simplifies the creation of visual style guides and specification sheets. Spec Cubed also facilitates visual preflighting of complex documents.

Color Spec Cubed reduces errors and improves communication by visually annotating InDesign documents with color, font, and placed graphic usage information. Slug Cubed simplifies the design and maintenance of slugs, page elements that contain standardized information about a document’s contents and status.

It offers unparalleled freedom and simplicity in slug layout, unparalleled power in the breadth of automatically updating fields it supports, and unparalleled variety in its ability to prompt designers for values in a way that makes sense in the workflow. PlanSystem3 is a third-generation planning, process, and workflow management system with unparalleled enterprise-wide function integration capabilities and process management tools.

In addition to its superb flat planning and automation tools, PlanSystem3 integrates InDesign and InCopy with popular databases in a cross-platform environment, along with the ability to manage intangibles and any type of file, such as a Microsoft Word document or Excel spreadsheet, and to connect to advertising and third-party systems like Fotoware, Mediabank, or Chuckwalla.

PlanSystem3 provides a unique collaborative workflow management solution for magazine publishers, book publishers, catalogers, retailers, and design firms. Sonar Bookends InDex Pro.

Sonar Bookends InFnote 3. Sonar Bookends InSeq 3. Automatically number figures, tables, and any references in your text. Compatible with InDesign CS. Sonar Bookends InXref 3. Easily embed page references for tables, appendices, chapters, and figures. It comes with XMPie uPlan for advanced database connectivity and business rules programming. Add-ons are available for image personalization with Photoshop and dynamic charting in InDesign.

Output multipage documents as single pages with variable filenames and change the job name in the printer queue. Just choose the documents, adjust the settings, and BatchOutput will do the rest for you. BatchOutput is ideal for printers, service providers, publishing houses, and ad agencies.

InPreflight is a comprehensive quality-control and packaging solution for InDesign. It gathers extensive information about document fonts, colors, and links and lets you instantly locate problems according to user-defined settings. Get info on link attributes unavailable in InDesign, select various attributes to be flagged as problems, generate a preflight report, and more. A powerful packaging engine allows you to preflight and package multiple documents into a single folder or separately.

LinkOptimizer reduces the size of images linked to an InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data. Save storage space, time, and production costs; increase printing speed; speed up job transfer; and more. Various options are file size, bounding box, and color model. StyleReporter places style labels for each story in an InDesign document. It can label paragraph styles and character styles. All labels are put on separate layer and a character style is assigned to the labels so that users can customize labels according to their needs.

It also provides the capability to search for pictures and then drag-and-drop those pictures onto the layout. Slendro SearchLinks helps users search for placed, for-position-only images uploaded to Xinet WebNative servers, once they configure SearchLinks to work with a Xinet WebNative database. The typical search turnaround time is two to three seconds. Users can then drag-and-drop results directly into their layouts. Access in-depth image information such as the link name, state, file size, page number, picture type raster or vector , image format, image actual PPI, image effective PPI, image color space, image size, and linked file modification date directly from an image placed in an InDesign layout.

This includes the ability to generate picture usage reports. The report can also be imported into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to access additional formatting options. Buy now. Plug-ins Search. Adobe InDesign User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:.

Applies to: Adobe InDesign. Third-party plug-ins for InDesign. Go more in depth: InDesign custom solutions InDesign automation. InDitect is available in more than 30 languages. ANYGRAAF USA Visit our partner Doris32 Doris32 asset management and publishing production system offers multichannel publishing for print and electronic media and brings together stories, images, graphics, and ads into a common publishing production system with tools that integrate InDesign based pagination; asset management; image management; Internet, wireless, and electronic paper publishing; archiving; ad management; and production planning and tracking.

Cropmarks 2. Comdus Solution Visit our partner TradingBell InCat TradingBell Catalog Management System enables catalogers to aggregate product information and categorize, manage, and automate the publishing of product catalogs to print, the web, CD, and electronic marketplaces. Directory Resources Corporation Visit our partner Bookman This company offers several InDesign enhancements to automate the pagination of a Yellow Pages telephone directory.

Page Control 1. Create landscape and portrait pages in the same document. Resize master pages. Automatic resizing of pages according to master page. Custom pasteboard sizes. Print or export to PDF retaining page sizes. Layer Comps Layer Comps are a convenient way to store a snapshot of certain key aspects of your documents layers. Layer Groups Layer Groups plug-ins allow users to sort layers into folders.

X-ray The X-ray plug-in creates a palette containing a list of all InDesign panels and toolbars. Text Count This plug-in contains a set of tools to preflight for overset and get rid of it easily, estimate text content needed to fill empty space, fit text to frame, and count multiple text attributes in many different ranges. Cross-References Cross-References is a modular system that responds to every referencing need.

History History brings the fundamental history panel to the InDesign workspace. Em Software Inc. InCatalog InCatalog creates transparent links between your Adobe InDesign documents and your databases or spreadsheets. InData InData brings the full layout, design, typographic, and picture publishing power of Adobe InDesign to bear on all your data-driven repetitive publishing tasks.

Xtags Xtags is a powerful import and export text filter supporting the full QuarkXPress Tags language plus its own extended Xtags tags, for tremendous document-building and extracting power in Adobe InDesign. Extensis Visit our partner Portfolio 8. Suitcase Fusion Suitcase Fusion eliminates font problems that creative professionals face everyday.

Suitcase Server X1 A hassle-free solution to managing fonts for your workgroup, Suitcase Server ensures consistent use of fonts, eliminates duplicate font issues, and provides license control.

Today, were going to learn how to update those Adobe InDesign CS5 plugins, but first of all, what is a plugin? In fact, most of the features you see in InDesign are provided by plugins. If we click on the CS5 Plugins folder, we see inside several sub-folders with regards to plugins. So how do we get Adobe InDesign plugins?

How do we add features and functions to Adobe InDesign without bugging Adobe themselves? Markzware at markzware. So this is a handy CS5 plugin. We can buy Q2ID now. We see different versions of InDesign plugins, as well CS5.

You will see that one of those plugins is the one we just showed you from Markzware, the Q2ID v5. By re-installing a version of that plugin. In this case, we did a fresh install. Alright, so how does a plugin look inside of InDesign CS5?

Installation location depends on the software developer or manufacturer. This has been how to update InDesign CS5 plugins. I hope this tutorial has been helpful. It is quite a simple process. Find the updated version of that plugin and do a fresh install, update or re-install the product.

Plugins are useful and can help you to enhance Adobe InDesign. Q2ID v5. Saving you even more time and money.

 
 

 

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Make your images stand out without ever having to leave InDesign for another application. Lightning Brain LayerLifter. Lightning Brain LikeFindsLike. Lightning Brain LikeFindLike helps you quickly select similar items that are scattered over a page or spread. Instead of having to Shift-click-click Lightning Brain TextStitch. Lightning Brain TextStitch helps the user reduce the number of clicks needed to thread and unthread multiframe text flows. Two threading methods are provided: Quick Stitch for threading frames in a user-defined order with a single mouse click per frame, and Auto-Stitch for fully automated threading of loose frames.

Lightning Brain ClipAThing. Lightning Brain ChatterGoofy. Compatible with Jabberwocky, it accepts exported Jabberwocky sets. Lightning Brain ImageLibraryLoader. This plug-in allows users to select a folder and automatically fill a floating palette with any images it contains. Using ImageLibraryLoader for managing the images is much faster than attempting to place the images using conventional means, like placing them or using Adobe Bridge.

Lightning Brain Color2Gray. Lightning Brain Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color bitmap images to grayscale without modifying the original color image. The original image is not changed and remains in color, yet it is output as a grayscale image. Lightning Brain Text Exporter. The Text Exporter plug-in allows users to export all the stories of an InDesign document into a single file. The features include:. Active Page Item Developer Toolkit. Check out freebies for examples of what can be achieved.

Lightning Brain StoryParker. Lightning Brain StoryParker helps to manage cluttered pages. Every page item can be temporarily “parked,” that is, put aside, somewhere on the pasteboard. Later on, with a single click, it can be moved back to exactly where it came from.

If you’re publishing a newspaper, magazine, or newsletter, this plug-in will enable you to generate one or more Sudoku puzzles directly in an InDesign CS or CS2 document — for example, for a puzzle page or to generate whole booklets of Sudoku puzzles.

You’re in control of the look and feel of the generated puzzles — and the generator takes care of actually building them for you. Place and Scale. With Place and Scale, automatically scale placed bitmap images photographs up or down when placing to exactly match a preset output resolution. Color2Gray allows you to convert placed color bitmap images to grayscale without modifying the original color image.

The gray image will only render on the black K plate. Sudoku Generator. Sudoku Generator allows you to generate one or more unique new Sudoku puzzles in an InDesign document and to generate corresponding solution pages as well — ideal for automatically generating Sudoku books.

The TextExporter scripted plug-in saves all stories of an InDesign document into a single output file. Catalog Composer 4. XPublisha is a tool for variable data publishing and catalog publishing automation. This means you can flow thousands of records into hundreds of pages without working up a sweat.

Fractions’N’Prices is a plug-in for InDesign that automates the formatting of fractions and prices in text on the page. It also allows you to remove all manual kerning applied between characters or to remove kerning from a kerning pair. It allows you to search, retrieve, and archive assets from within InDesign over the web without a browser or a desktop application. With InDesign HTTP, you can readily manage all your digitized files — images, graphics, text, logos, documents, and web pages — enabling easy and timely enterprise-wide access and feeding efficiently into traditional and new media publishing channels.

Split Box is a revolutionary plug-in for InDesign that allows users to quickly split standard InDesign text and image boxes into works of art.

Use simple pull-down menus for great-looking effects, or combine multiple effects. The SmartWriter plug-in analyzes your work while you are creating a document and automatically delivers related and supportive material to your screen for immediate use. Silicon Connector lets you link directly from InDesign to assets on the web or a web-hosted DAM system, reducing the time spent on multiple steps required for file-based linking or WebDAV.

Rather than move files around network file shares and re-link, or package up linked assets, a single drag-and-drop makes an enduring link accessible to the InDesign file from any Mac or PC with a web connection. SoftCare K2 This Workgroup Publishing Solution combines the power and reliability of large systems with the special requirements of smaller sized publishing houses, creative agencies, or companies.

Optimum InDesign and InCopy integration guarantees maximum speed and top-level professional publishing, with easy handling. SoftCare Notes Manager 3. Editorial staff will communicate more efficiently using notes, as displaying and navigating notes is easier and faster. SoftCare Overset Manager 5.

The SoftCare Overset Manager plug-in gives you complete control over text length and text overset, enabling you to count, display, edit, and print overset text. SoftCare Overset Manager is the ideal tool for everybody dealing with text-intensive files on a regular basis. Simple, fast barcodes for Adobe InDesign. One simple palette lets you customize over 50 different barcodes any way you want.

Creates vector based EPS files that you can embed into your document or link on disk. Link data anywhere on an InDesign page, or merge data into a document and into tables too. DataLinker integrates with BarcodeMaker to let you mass produce barcodes.

This free plug-in brings high quality PostScript patterns to InDesign. Fill any frame with a pattern, then modify, tweak and reinvent each pattern into unlimited variations!

You can also purchase an additional 13 patterns with our PatternPack plug-in. Spec Cubed Spec Cubed provides a simple, powerful way to visually analyze the contents of your InDesign documents. By analyzing over attributes, ranging from leading and tracking to drop shadow properties and effective raster resolution, Spec Cubed radically simplifies the creation of visual style guides and specification sheets. Spec Cubed also facilitates visual preflighting of complex documents.

Color Spec Cubed reduces errors and improves communication by visually annotating InDesign documents with color, font, and placed graphic usage information. Slug Cubed simplifies the design and maintenance of slugs, page elements that contain standardized information about a document’s contents and status. It offers unparalleled freedom and simplicity in slug layout, unparalleled power in the breadth of automatically updating fields it supports, and unparalleled variety in its ability to prompt designers for values in a way that makes sense in the workflow.

PlanSystem3 is a third-generation planning, process, and workflow management system with unparalleled enterprise-wide function integration capabilities and process management tools.

In addition to its superb flat planning and automation tools, PlanSystem3 integrates InDesign and InCopy with popular databases in a cross-platform environment, along with the ability to manage intangibles and any type of file, such as a Microsoft Word document or Excel spreadsheet, and to connect to advertising and third-party systems like Fotoware, Mediabank, or Chuckwalla.

PlanSystem3 provides a unique collaborative workflow management solution for magazine publishers, book publishers, catalogers, retailers, and design firms. Sonar Bookends InDex Pro. Sonar Bookends InFnote 3. Sonar Bookends InSeq 3. Automatically number figures, tables, and any references in your text. Compatible with InDesign CS.

Sonar Bookends InXref 3. Easily embed page references for tables, appendices, chapters, and figures. It comes with XMPie uPlan for advanced database connectivity and business rules programming. Add-ons are available for image personalization with Photoshop and dynamic charting in InDesign.

Output multipage documents as single pages with variable filenames and change the job name in the printer queue. Just choose the documents, adjust the settings, and BatchOutput will do the rest for you. BatchOutput is ideal for printers, service providers, publishing houses, and ad agencies.

InPreflight is a comprehensive quality-control and packaging solution for InDesign. It gathers extensive information about document fonts, colors, and links and lets you instantly locate problems according to user-defined settings. Get info on link attributes unavailable in InDesign, select various attributes to be flagged as problems, generate a preflight report, and more. A powerful packaging engine allows you to preflight and package multiple documents into a single folder or separately.

LinkOptimizer reduces the size of images linked to an InDesign document by eliminating excessive image data. Save storage space, time, and production costs; increase printing speed; speed up job transfer; and more.

Various options are file size, bounding box, and color model. StyleReporter places style labels for each story in an InDesign document. It can label paragraph styles and character styles. All labels are put on separate layer and a character style is assigned to the labels so that users can customize labels according to their needs.

It also provides the capability to search for pictures and then drag-and-drop those pictures onto the layout. Slendro SearchLinks helps users search for placed, for-position-only images uploaded to Xinet WebNative servers, once they configure SearchLinks to work with a Xinet WebNative database. The typical search turnaround time is two to three seconds. Users can then drag-and-drop results directly into their layouts.

Access in-depth image information such as the link name, state, file size, page number, picture type raster or vector , image format, image actual PPI, image effective PPI, image color space, image size, and linked file modification date directly from an image placed in an InDesign layout.

This includes the ability to generate picture usage reports. The report can also be imported into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to access additional formatting options. Buy now. Plug-ins Search. Adobe InDesign User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:. Applies to: Adobe InDesign. Third-party plug-ins for InDesign. Go more in depth: InDesign custom solutions InDesign automation.

InDitect is available in more than 30 languages. ANYGRAAF USA Visit our partner Doris32 Doris32 asset management and publishing production system offers multichannel publishing for print and electronic media and brings together stories, images, graphics, and ads into a common publishing production system with tools that integrate InDesign based pagination; asset management; image management; Internet, wireless, and electronic paper publishing; archiving; ad management; and production planning and tracking.

Cropmarks 2. Comdus Solution Visit our partner TradingBell InCat TradingBell Catalog Management System enables catalogers to aggregate product information and categorize, manage, and automate the publishing of product catalogs to print, the web, CD, and electronic marketplaces.

Directory Resources Corporation Visit our partner Bookman This company offers several InDesign enhancements to automate the pagination of a Yellow Pages telephone directory. Page Control 1. Create landscape and portrait pages in the same document.

Resize master pages. Automatic resizing of pages according to master page. Custom pasteboard sizes. Print or export to PDF retaining page sizes. Layer Comps Layer Comps are a convenient way to store a snapshot of certain key aspects of your documents layers.

Layer Groups Layer Groups plug-ins allow users to sort layers into folders. X-ray The X-ray plug-in creates a palette containing a list of all InDesign panels and toolbars. Text Count This plug-in contains a set of tools to preflight for overset and get rid of it easily, estimate text content needed to fill empty space, fit text to frame, and count multiple text attributes in many different ranges. Audition CS5. Adobe Media Encoder CS5 is a Adobe Media Encoder CS5 is Includes 26 professional photographic effects Combine multiple effects to create your own look.

PhotoTools 2. What used to take hours using photography and 2D images alone can now be achieved in a matter of minutes Adobe Lens Profile Downloader is a free Converting EXE files to Adobe Photoshop, one Adobe Acrobat Pro If you work in InDesign, you know that in order to be productive in this software, you should use keyboard shortcuts.

However, it can be quite disappointing to find and change shortcuts. Designing calendars for business and customers is something that a lot of people are scared of. With this Adobe InDesign plug-in, you will get rid of this problem.

The plug-in grants the possibility to design customized and flexible calendars, add plenty of various options, such as holidays or moon phases. The most pleasant part of these calendars is the fact that you can make them in more than 20 different languages.

If you need a digital publishing tool using which you will be able to design magazines for mobile phones in InDesign, this variant of InDesign plugins is what you need. With this plug-in, you can achieve great results without much time and effort. In the majority of cases, we use Illustrator if we want to make pie charts and work with graphics.

Claquos 2 is a great variant of plugins for InDesign. This plug-in grants the possibility to create QR codes straight in InDesign. The plug-in provides a hovering library-palette full of pictures. They are automatically extracted from one or more folders.

The aim of the plug-in is to help users thread text frames in InDesign CS and later. This InDesign plugins variant allows you to quickly select plenty of similar items that are distributed all over the page or spread.

You can simply select one and use the Select All Similar option to select the remaining frames in one click. ImageHorn was created for dynamic image fitting that automatically re-implements selected fitting parameters to the image whenever you change the size of the frame that has it. This plug-in will be very helpful for those who have ever worked with layouts already existing in PDF format. Instead of building upon the PDF structure that can ruin the possibility of editing, the plug-in does it by means of interpreting the layout.

It can launch several queries at a time and makes it possible for you to clean your documents in InDesign without any problems. This will be very useful for those who deal with long text documents and constantly need to clean up many typing errors, such as GREP and glyphs. Blatner Tools is a set of 12 InDesign plugins that can help you make your work faster.

These plug-ins perform automatic style creation, auto fractions, provide more than 50 new customizable shortcuts, such as adjusting layers, swatches, styles, etc. This plug-in will help you manage the number of words in documents. It offers a real-time panel and can export full reports. If you need to find the history panel in InDesign, you can do it with the help of this plug-in.

It gives you an opportunity to look at all the undo and redo steps in one handy palette. Also, the plug-in automatically takes screenshots of the active spread when you save your document. This is an InDesign and Illustrator plug-in that optimizes and makes it easier for you to create and edit complex documents.

You will be able to do this task without spending much time and making a lot of mistakes in your layered documents. Also, using this plug-in, you can combine layers into layer views and display various language or regional options of a document with just one click.

This variant of InDesign plugins paints a customizable red bar next to the changes in the left frame margins. In such a way, it indicates what parts of the documents have been changed. This plug-in can convert texts, fonts, the structure of paragraphs, frames that connect information, charts, graphics, etc.

It converts all the pages into the same ones but in the Word, PowerPoint or Keynote files. This plug-in will be very helpful for those who create layouts for structured, recurrent materials, such as charts and tables.

It automatically changes the position and the size of files with many pages, no need to combine them in groups.

 
 

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Look here to find the latest and greatest plug-ins from third-party developers. Plug-ins may also be found by searching our Partner Finder database of developers. EasyCatalogCS EasyCatalogCS has been designed to aid the production of catalogs, brochures, price lists, and most other types of data or design-driven publications.

How do you do it? What happens if the details in the file or database change at the last minute? What if you’re using complex page designs for each record in the file or database?

EasyCatalog has the answer. It’s here! Introducing the history panel for InDesign CS — view all of the available undo and redo steps in one convenient palette. As another option, EasyHistory CS will automatically take snapshots of the current spread when the document is saved. MultiDo MultiDo is a free plug-in that allows you to perform multiple undo or redo operations in one step using new undo multiple and redo multiple menu options.

The menu will dynamically update to reflect the most recent operations. InDihyph InDesign users can now benefit from using the Dieckmann method of inserting hyphenation. InDihyph offers highly accurate hyphenation and provides guidance on the best place to hyphenate in any given word. InDihyph has incorporated special algorithms to address combined and compound words, as well as new words that have evolved from common use.

InDihyph is available in more than 40 languages. InDitect uses a large internal dictionary for each language. This immense vocabulary is complemented by the specific Dieckmann algorithms for different word endings and compound words.

InDitect recognizes common errors such as wrongly erroneously capitalized words and allows users to customize suggested word lists to have more or fewer correction options. Visit our partner.

Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack 1. Doris32 asset management and publishing production system offers multichannel publishing for print and electronic media and brings together stories, images, graphics, and ads into a common publishing production system with tools that integrate InDesign based pagination; asset management; image management; Internet, wireless, and electronic paper publishing; archiving; ad management; and production planning and tracking. MadeToPrint is an indispensable workhorse for any publishing, graphic arts, or prepress user who processes more than five InDesign or InCopy documents a day.

Cacidi Extreme Suite 6. Cacidi LiveMerge 1. Focus on design and layout and let Cacidi LiveMerge control the state of content in your document — live updating right in front of your eyes. Catalog Extreme 4. Simply create the text fields, image fields, and decoration fields you need and add the graphic properties you want, such as lines, color fills, and more directly in InDesign.

Save the module when you like the way it looks. In combination with Catalog Extreme 4. In combination with Extreme 4. Based on information in the text file from the database, the plug-in automatically allocates space on the pages. Contactsheet Pro 2. Q-to-InDesign Batch 2.

TradingBell InCat TradingBell Catalog Management System enables catalogers to aggregate product information and categorize, manage, and automate the publishing of product catalogs to print, the web, CD, and electronic marketplaces.

TradingBell InCat is a plug-in for InDesign to manipulate the catalog information in the database, generate page layouts with populated product information, refresh updates in the database to the catalog pages, and more.

For anything from business cards to magazines, this is the solution to help you achieve a winning layout! Download a free demo. Bookman This company offers several InDesign enhancements to automate the pagination of a Yellow Pages telephone directory. David Blatner’s InDesign Tips Whether you’re new to InDesign or an experienced user, there is always more to learn about this incredibly rich program.

InDesign guru David Blatner offers his favorite tips and tricks for getting efficient with InDesign in this new and free! A free Page Control Reader guarantees InDesign documents containing multiple page sizes will be accessible to, and editable by, service providers and collaborators who do not have Page Control installed. Layer Comps are a convenient way to store a snapshot of certain key aspects of your documents layers.

Second feature allows users to choose an entire layer as nonprinting. This way, they can easily have a layer for comments or alternative objects without the risk of getting them accidentally into print.

The X-ray plug-in creates a palette containing a list of all InDesign panels and toolbars. Users can set desired opacity for each of them. The list can display either all panels, or only the visible ones. Users can turn opacity on or off with a single click or hot key. This plug-in contains a set of tools to preflight for overset and get rid of it easily, estimate text content needed to fill empty space, fit text to frame, and count multiple text attributes in many different ranges.

Cross-References is a modular system that responds to every referencing need. History’s undo capabilities are not limited to the current work session, and changes can be undone years after they were made. The ability to keep all document versions within one file saves storage space and bandwidth. T etris. Tetris for InDesign is a free plug-in that allows users to play the Tetris game in the InDesign panel. With DocsFlow, you place online Google Docs documents as InDesign story contents, just like you place normal text files.

But, even more importantly, DocsFlow maintains a dynamic link so it can intelligently merge Google Docs document changes into the InDesign story contents on each link update, rather than just replacing them. So you can format, lay out and make minor edits inInDesign, while you and others are editing content together in real-time onGoogle Docs, without losing any work. InCatalog creates transparent links between your Adobe InDesign documents and your databases or spreadsheets. You can update prices, graphics, or product information automatically—even change versions or swap languages.

Once links are established by means of the easy-to-use data linker palette, changes can be made in either the document or the database. Linked elements can be moved between documents or libraries without losing linkage. With InCatalog, you can rest assured—your documents will always reflect your database contents.

And InCatalog works with InData for a complete publishing solution. InData brings the full layout, design, typographic, and picture publishing power of Adobe InDesign to bear on all your data-driven repetitive publishing tasks.

Simply put, InData works like a mail merge on steroids. You create a template in a normal document, with rules that tell it how to format your text and graphics. Then, with a single menu invocation, InData builds your documents at jaw-dropping speeds—up to hundreds or even thousands of pages per hour. InFlow provides automatic page insertion for your InDesign document.

InFlow detects overset text as it occurs and creates as many new document pages as needed, linking the current text story to the new pages so text flows automatically.

Xtags is a powerful import and export text filter supporting the full QuarkXPress Tags language plus its own extended Xtags tags, for tremendous document-building and extracting power in Adobe InDesign.

With Xtags, you can build any text content with full styling, anchor and fill picture and text boxes, build and fill unanchored boxes, size picture contents to containing boxes, size boxes to content text or picture in various flexible ways, translate text and tags on input, use macros to reduce typing, apply master pages and spreads, and more. For output, Xtags will save the contents of any text story, including anchored text and picture boxes, and will also save the structure and content of any selected text, picture or group boxes.

Portfolio 8. Whip them into shape with Portfolio 8. Suitcase for Windows. It provides industrial-strength font management for desktop and workgroup users running Windows. Suitcase Fusion. Suitcase Fusion eliminates font problems that creative professionals face everyday.

It combines the best of Suitcase and Font Reserve to provide reliable, hassle-free font management. Suitcase Server X1. A hassle-free solution to managing fonts for your workgroup, Suitcase Server ensures consistent use of fonts, eliminates duplicate font issues, and provides license control.

Eliminate the grunt work of getting and staying organized by creating a visual database from your selected files and folders. Suitcase provides previews, sets, and sample pages that make it easier than ever to find the right font fast. PatternStream 3 for InDesign is a revolutionary automated and database publishing program that provides graphic designers who use InDesign a more efficient way to acquire information from a database, XML files, and other sources for data-driven projects such as catalogs, directories, reports, reference books, and other pattern-based information for print and electronic distribution.

For designers, the benefit of InDesign Font Catalog is that it creates grouped font display listings. Only the regular font is displayed entirely, and each style bold, italic, outline, condensed, and so on is displayed in its style in a short list below the main font display.

From 3 to 15 fonts can be listed per page using the single paragraph format. A waterfall display of only 1 font per page with text samples from 8 to 72 points can also be created.

PDF Bee runs in automatic mode or single document mode. Cropster ID Get the professional’s choice for setting up on-page mechanicals. Working from a specified bleed, trim, and safety area, you can add colored guides, crop marks, dimension arrows, color bars, logos, date stamps, and more to the page. Complex fold setups can be created, complete with guides for fold and gutter marks. All settings can be saved as presets for easy recall later.

It includes the ability to scale items and selections nonproportionally, yet keep text and graphics from distorting.

It also can resize entire multipage documents in one click. All settings can be saved as presets for convenient recall. GLUON has long been the leader in slug technology. Slugger allows you to place mission-critical information and graphics automatically on each page on a separate layer.

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