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Server plug-ins for InDesign CS5/5.5 Server

car — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:51:19 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that we now have server versions of our popular, field-proven data publishing solutions available for Adobe InDesign CS5 Server and Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Server.

Server versions of InDesign, coupled with our plugins, enable almost unlimited hands-off automation, driven from other business processes (such as web input or user-initiated scripts). You drive the whole system with scripts (the same scripts that you’d run on the desktop, except that there’s no user interface) in patterns such as opening a template document, updating with InCatalog from a data file or a direct database connection or importing with InData or Xtags–resulting in, for example, a price-updated catalog or a newly-created parts list or photo book–, optionally saving the result as a PDF, saving or discarding the resulting document, then repeating that with more documents and data/text inputs, etc. Since all our plugins are fully scriptable, they can participate as key elements in your overall automation process.

The server plug-ins will be freely downloadable from our website; however, to try them you’ll need to contact us to obtain a trial license or to purchase a full license.

For the time being, we’re only providing Windows versions of our server plugins, since Adobe is emphasizing the 64-bit server (available only under Windows), and since most folks are using this version. If you need the Mac OS X version of a server plugin, please contact us at the coordinates above.

As an additional help for your development and testing, we can provide a free desktop license along with the server license of our plugins.

Watch for the individual server product releases over the coming weeks (Xtags for InDesign is already available), and feel free to contact our support crew, if you have questions about availability, or would like to discuss how our plug-ins could fit into your server workflow.

Release: Xtags 6/7.1.4.2 for InDesign CS4/5/5.5

car — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:29:28 +0000

This patch release of Xtags for InDesign addresses a couple recently found scripting issues.

Changes at 6/7.1.4.2 release

Fixed a scripting problem where imports resulting in non-critical errors (like translation table file not found) were being automatically undone.
Dealt with a scripting problem where importing directly from a long string would sometimes cause InDesign CS4 to crash on OS X 10.6. (Mac OS only)

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.9.2 for InDesign CS4/5/5.5

car — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:03:50 +0000

This patch release fixes compatibility issues with InCopy, InDesign libraries, CJK languages and the indent-to-here character.

Changes at InCatalog 6/7.2.9.2

Fixed a problem introduced in 7.2.9 where links weren’t being preserved consistently by InCopy or InDesign libraries.
Fixed a scripting problem where the content valid property wasn’t being included in catalog link data.
Fixed a problem where native indent-to-here characters (#7) were being removed during the import and export of unformatted text fields. Note that XPress-tagged fields continue to interpret #30 as indent-to-here (and #7 is always a hard-return) and InDesign-tagged fields continue to support #7 as indent-to-here.
Fixed a problem where DD qualifiers specific to sister-product Xcatalog weren’t being silently ignored.
Fixed an issue where CJK characters weren’t always being displayed properly in the tagger’s field popup.

Release: InData 6/7.1.8.2 for InDesign CS4/5/5.5

car — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:03:24 +0000

This patch release addresses issues with scripting, indent-to-here characters, the format() function and CJK systems.

Changes at 6/7.1.8.2 release

Fixed a problem where native indent-to-here characters (#7) were being stripped from imported text.
Added negative and zero sections to format()‘s format string, which now allows "positive numbers;negative numbers;zero values" (where sections are separated by semicolons). For example, format("0", "#,###;(#,###);zero") would produce "zero".
Fixed the format() function to strip leading zeros, such that format("0","#,###") now returns "" rather than "0". To preserve leading zeros, use a placeholder 0 (zero).
Fixed a problem with the format() function where different forms of zero (like 0, 0.00 and -0) weren’t being formatted the same.
Fixed a data import problem where a Unix line-end (LF) as a record separator was being ignored.
Fixed a problem where a scripted import could fail (or, in CS4, crash) if a text selection wasn’t already set in the target story.
Fixed a problem where imports on CJK systems were always failing with a “[T7] You can’t use this character in a prototype” error.

Release: Xtags 6/7.1.4.1 for InDesign CS4/5/5.5

car — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:03:05 +0000

This patch release of Xtags for InDesign addresses tab composition compatibility.

Changes at 6/7.1.4.1 release

Addressed a compatibility issue with tabs where InDesign, unlike QuarkXPress, was allowing the paragraph’s alignment, if not left-aligned, to alter the alignment of text to the last tab. On import, Xtags now forces left alignment on paragraphs that contain both tabs and tabstops so that text will align to the last tab as it does in QuarkXPress.
Addressed a problem where very small tab offsets (< 0.1 pt) were being ignored by InDesign’s composer. When importing from a QuarkXPress 3.3 source (v1.7), very small tab offsets are now clamped to 0.1 pt so that they won’t be ignored in order to encourage a more QuarkXPress-like composition.

Release: InFlow 6/7.2.2.4 for InDesign CS4/5/5.5

car — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:02:29 +0000

This patch release of InFlow addresses a minor serialization issue.

Changes at 6/7.2.2.4 release

Fixed support for universal serial numbers.

Release: Xcatalog 8/9.3.5.2 for QuarkXPress 8/9

car — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:07:11 +0000

This Xcatalog patch release addresses problems with indent-to-here characters and corrupt links.

Changes at 8/9.3.5.2 release

Fixed a problem where native indent-to-here characters (#30) were being removed during the import and export of unformatted text fields.
Fixed a problem where a corrupt link could cause Xcatalog > Clear all links > In Selection to hang.
Fixed a problem where DD qualifiers specific to sister-product InCatalog weren’t being silently ignored.

Release: Xdata 8/9.4.3.2 for QuarkXPress 8/9

car — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:59:40 +0000

This patch release of Xdata addresses problems with the format() function and adds pass-thru of the indent-to-here character.

Changes at 8/9.4.3.2 release

Fixed a problem where native indent-to-here characters (#30) were being stripped from imported text.
Added negative and zero sections to format()‘s format string, which now allows "positive numbers;negative numbers;zero values" (where sections are separated by semicolons). For example, format("0", "#,###;(#,###);zero") would produce "zero".
Fixed the format() function to strip leading zeros, such that format("0","#,###") now returns "" rather than "0". To preserve leading zeros, use a placeholder 0 (zero).
Fixed a problem with the format() function where different forms of zero (like 0, 0.00 and -0) weren’t being formatted the same.

Release: Xtags 8/9.3.5.1 for QuarkXPress 8/9

car — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:37:53 +0000

This patch release of Xtags addresses a minor serialization issue.

Changes at 8/9.3.5.1 release

Fixed support for universal serial numbers.

Release: DocsFlow 6/7.1.2.1 for InDesign CS4 & CS5/5.5

car — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:07:33 +0000

This patch release fixes crash issues with using Edit Original and displaying the Place Google Docs Documents dialog.

Changes at 6/7.1.2.1 release

Fixed a problem which could cause a crash when switching back to InDesign after using Edit Original to access a Google Docs document.
Fixed a problem where acquiring the Google Docs document list could cause a crash while attempting to display the Place Google Docs Documents dialog.