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Smart Connection Light enables users to start working as a team with InDesign and InCopy supporting workflow by preventing mistakes and managing shared files on any file system accessible from InDesign and InCopy. Smart Connection enables a copy-driven or layout-driven workflow, or a mixture of both.After creating a story within InDesign, send it to InCopy including (optionally) a preview of the remainder of the page. The contents of the story sent to InCopy is no longer editable within InDesign, only its geometry can be changed.To let the InCopy user know that changes were made to the geometry of the story or to other items on the page, a so-called design update can be sent to InCopy by just pressing one button. The InCopy user will be notified automatically with a yellow exclamation sign on Smart Connection's design update panel.One click on the design update button will incorporate the geometry changes and update the preview of the page. The InDesign links panel keeps track of the stories that have been sent to InCopy and will signal when a new version of a story is available.When a story is finished within InCopy, press the reclaim button on the Smart Connection panel to update the text of the story and to make the story editable again within InDesign. With the refresh button the story can be intermediately updated without getting edit access.Besides sending single stories, it is also possible to select multiple stories and send them as one InCopy document. There is no need to link these stories. This can be used, for example, to send the body of an article together with its heading to one InCopy document or to send all headings to one InCopy document.Smart Connection offers the element tag panel to tag each story which eases handling within InCopy, especially when ending multiple stories at once. Within InCopy a panel, lists the tags of all editable stories; selecting one of the tags makes InCopy switch to that story both in layout and galley view.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: WoodWing Software
Smart Connection Pro builds on InDesign and InCopy's power by expanding the feature-set with those features that are needed to manage publications in medium to... (more detail)
Smart Connection Pro builds on InDesign and InCopy's power by expanding the feature-set with those features that are needed to manage publications in medium to... (more detail)
The best way to improve your hyphenation in Adobe InDesign CS2 and InCopy CS2 is with Smart Hyphen, an intelligent syllable technology of the *TALO language modules. Smart Hyphen offers tremendous improvements to the hyphenation provided by InDesign and InCopy, including mumerous additional languages that are not supported by InDesign and InCopy, superior hyphenation compared to the standard hyphenator, an almost human understanding of the languages it supports, and all languages are maintained and updated. These improvements result in better text composition, allowing the quality of your publication to improve due to the superior hyphenation and improved text flow and white-space management.With state-of-the-art technology, Smart Hyphen has a much better understanding of all the languages it supports. The standard InDesign and InCopy hyphenators uses linear pattern comparison to determine possible hyphenations, that lead to the possibility of erroneous hyphenations spread evenly throughout the words. Smart Hyphen is based on the award-winning *TALO language technology, that uses refined linguistic principles with language-specific models. The model is different for each language and also incorporates any special cases, such as spelling changes and language-specific peculiarities such as elision hyphenations (Italian), silents (muettes in French) and long vowel groups in verbs.New words are also hyphenated correctly with the *TALO technology — very convenient for magazines and newspapers that have to deal with new words on a daily basis.Although exceptions are rarely needed, Smart Hyphen's exception functions even support special hyphenations, a tremendous advantage for all languages that have a large number of compounds. Exceptions can be stored both at a global (server) level as well as at the user level.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: WoodWing USA
Smart Speller is a powerful enhanced spelling Plug-in for Adobe InDesign and InCopy incorporating the technology from the language institute *TALO, and offering tremendous improvements to the spelling provided by InDesign and InCopy. By incorporating *TALO's technology into Smart Speller, it is now the industry's most powerful, efficient, and versatile speller.In addition to delivering enhanced spelling functionality for languages that are available in standard InDesign and InCopy, Smart Speller also covers a wide variety of additional languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Australian English, and many others.Features:• Smart Speller supplies the user with proper alternatives no matter what the language;• lexicons are at least four times larger than usual and include recent idioms; some languages have lexicons over or near three million words;• basic principles of the *TALO modules guarantee an economical spelling procedure;• built to immediately and automatically learn unknown words, while outdated words are forgotten; and• switch between languages even during a spelling session.Smart Speller follows the rules and exceptions of spelling governed by leading academies, therefore abbreviations, punctuation marks, fixed formats, financial data (such as dates and numbers), and internet addresses are controlled during the spelling process.Smart Speller has a memory that contains words such as the user's mistakes or unique, differently spelled words. The function of this memory for a whole company or separated business units could be department style; words are collected in separated lexicons for each user or server.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: WoodWing USA
From sports agate to complicated charts and tables, any repetitive formatting can be handled with a single click, thanks to Smart Styles CS3. This update takes full advantage of the new features of InDesign CS3, as both object and table styles can now be incorporated into Smart Styles, making the created styles even more powerful. After updating a Smart Style, you can re-apply this style with a single click and update the entire document. Smart Styles CS3 further enhances table efficiency by providing the ability to sort tables and to do simple spreadsheet-like calculations directly inside InDesign tables.When Smart Styles is used in combination with Smart Layout and Smart Connection, unparalleled power is added to the layout process in InDesign.Smart Styles delivers powerful formatting capabilities to Adobe InDesign users. All formatting options of a page item, including multiple text styles, can be set at once using a page item from the style library as an example. Smart Styles makes repetitive formatting much more efficient, saving time for creative tasks. By using Smart Styles for repetitive formatting, the quality of publications will improve. Smart Styles is profitable for any InDesign user doing multiple layouts with comparable formatting (such as magazines, newspapers, and advertisements).Features:• all standard page-item properties are applied by Smart Styles including stroke properties (color, width, type, and so on), fill properties, colors including tints and gradients, corner effects, inset, number of columns, and much more;• applies a sequence of paragraph styles allowing the specification of styles for the first paragraph(s), the last paragraph(s), and repeating styles for the paragraphs in between;• smart styles are stored in a style library, and each standard InDesign library can be used as a style library;• a style library behaves differently from a standard InDesign library in that when an item is dragged from the style library, dropping the item on any page item will apply the Smart Style;• style library are defined by creating an example page item and dropping that into a style library;• text styles and swatches used by Smart Styles are copied automatically to the document during application when they are not available within the document;• with Smart Layout (sold separately) unleash even more power: • complete Smart Layout items consisting of multiple elements that can be formatted at once; and• properties for all kinds of elements (e.g., head, intro, and body) can be set differently as well as a sequence of paragraph styles. • support for running headers and footers;• support for nested styles;• properties can be turned on or off independently;• Smart Styles can be applied to text selections;• modification of elements previously defined with one style to have another style with the reapply command;• Smart Style can be applied to all tables inside a text frame;• text wrap property support;• support for optional styling of Smart Catalog items and text fields.• price includes one year mandatory support agreement ($39)Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: WoodWing Software
The SoftCare Notes Manager Plug-in will totally change the any user's workflow with inline notes in Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy. Editorial staff will communicate more efficiently using notes, as displaying and navigating notes is made easier and faster.The standard InDesign and InCopy notes feature enables users to create and edit inline notes for their own reference or in order to exchange information with other users. The Adobe notes palette displays one note at a time and allows the user to browse notes in the order that they appear in the text.SoftCare Notes Manager enhances this functionality with its own palette. SoftCare Notes Manager offers filters for displaying notes created by a specific user, or notes edited within a certain timeframe. Search results can be sorted in multiple steps by author, note content, date of creation, and date of last modification, offering a quick overview of all relevant notes. See at a glance, for example, what notes a co-worker added to the file the previous day. In addition, optionally hide all non-editable notes in the document to have a better overview of the notes belonging to text frames for which permissions allow editing.SoftCare Notes Manager also makes it easier to navigate within the document. Clicking on an entry in the SoftCare Notes Manager palette selects the corresponding notes anchor on the page and vice versa. Double clicking an entry in the SoftCare Notes Manager palette will open the standard Adobe notes palette where the user can edit or delete the note, or convert it to text.In an editorial environment, where several people collaborate on the same text over time, SoftCare Notes Manager will quickly become an indispensable tool for reliably and efficiently exchanging suggestions and instructions.SoftCare Notes Manager is designed to fully support workflows based on Adobe's native InCopy Bridge Plug-ins as well as our publishing solutions SoftCare K4 and SoftCare K2.The product is available in English, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: SoftCare Software-Service GmbH
The SoftCare Overset Manager Plug-in for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy CS2 or CS3 gives complete control over text length and text overset, enabling the user to count, display, edit, and print overset text. It increases production security by warning if the document contains overset when the user prints or exports a file. SoftCare Overset Manager is the ideal tool for every user dealing with text-intensive files on a regular basis.With SoftCare Overset Manager, see at a glance if a file contains overset and what text threads are affected. Show or hide overset frames for the selected text flow or all text flows on the page. From the SoftCare Overset Manager palette, go directly to a specific overset frame and start editing the text.Additionally, be alerted when printing or exporting a document containing overset text. With its extensive feature set, SoftCare Overset Manager significantly increases the level of production security and helps to prevent costly mistakes.Preferences can be set to determine the background color of overset frames, as well as their position relative to their master frame. Overset frames can be placed comfortably at the top-right corner in the document so that even long overset text will be visible. Alternatively, overset text frames could be placed to the left of the original text frame when using right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.By counting placeholder text, SoftCare Overset Manager enables the user to determine the exact text length needed to fill a text thread in order to give correct instructions to an editor. SoftCare Overset Manager calculates text length by number of characters, words, lines, and manuscript lines. The length of manuscript lines is set in the SoftCare Overset Manager preferences. By setting the preference to a decimal number, e.g. 5.8, it is also possible to calculate the number of standard words needed to fill the text frame.Measure the length of text in the current selection, text column, or text thread, and see values for the text that fits in the text frames as well as for overset text, separately. The SoftCare Overset Manager palette enables the user to measure the current text selection against the remaining amount of overset text for easy and precise copy fitting. If a text frame is not completely filled with text, the palette displays an estimate number of missing lines for under-set text.The text count feature in SoftCare Overset Manager differs from the native Adobe InDesign character count feature. The most important differences are summarized in this table:SoftCare Overset Manager calculates values for text column, text selection or text thread. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 calculates values for text selection or text thread.Using SoftCare Overset Manager a text column or text thread can be calculated even when selecting part of the content with the text tool, as the type of selection is set in the Plug-in palette. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 displays values for the current selection only. If no text is selected, values for the entire text thread are displayed.SoftCare Overset Manager always shows the amount of overset to a text thread, even when counting just part of the fitting text. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 does not allow the user to compare the length of part of a text against the amount of overset.SoftCare Overset Manager shows text length when selecting a text frame with the selection tool. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 shows text length only when the text tool is selected.SoftCare Overset Manager offers preferences for setting the number of characters per manuscript line. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features for calculating manuscript lines.With SoftCare Overset Manager the number of characters per manuscript line can be integers or decimal numbers, e.g., to estimate the number of average words by setting the value to 5.8. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features for calculating manuscript lines.SoftCare Overset Manager counts only line per table row when calculating tables. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 counts at least one line per table cell, e.g., one table row with three columns will return a line count of three (or more, if one or more of the cells contains more than one line of text).SoftCare Overset Manager shows how many lines and tables are included in the overset part of the text . Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 does not recognize lines or tables in the overset text part.SoftCare Overset Manager added a preference to choose the position of the overset frames. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager added a preference for the background color of the overset frames. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager provides a drop-down menu to jump to the overset and yellow background in the palette if overset exists, Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager added warnings about overset in the document before output. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager estimates the number of missing lines for under-set text threads. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager can be used with InDesign or with InCopy. While InCopy provides editors with statistical information and allows to edit overset text in galley and story view, SoftCare brings these important features to the layout view, where the editor can see the exact design as it appears on the InDesign page. The Plug-in can be used with our publishing solutions SoftCare K4 and SoftCare K2.The Plug-ins is available in English, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: SoftCare Software-Service GmbH
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