This powerful plug-in lets users quickly and easily connect data sources to Adobe InDesign documents. Users can link CSV (Comma Separated Value or a flat text data file) and, with an add-on plug-in, ODBC-compliant databases to a document by using a simple, user-friendly palette. DataLinker will automatically insert new information or changes made to the data source with a synchronise feature.

This simple Plug-in adds ODBC connectivity to the already powerful DataLinker Plug-in. Connect to ODBC compliant databases on Mac or Windows, link to a table of your choice, or link to a custom SQL query.

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Manufacturer: Teacup Software

(Not available for electronic delivery.) StockLayouts' high-end graphic designs of customizable templates for users of professional layout and graphics applications provide fast and affordable solutions for producing exceptional marketing materials.

StockLayouts offers predesigned templates for brochures, newsletters, stationery and logos, postcards, ads, and more. The high-resolution layouts are built to exacting technical standards for commercial printing. Layout files are available in QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, and Adobe Illustrator formats for Mac or Windows users.

The design templates are royalty-free. Use them repeatedly without restriction and have the unlimited creative freedom to make changes.

Features:

• 126 design templates in Vol 1, completely designed and ready to go;

• 60 design templates in Vol 2 and 3, completely designed and ready to go;

• 613 graphic elements including stock photos, logo designs and artwork;

• exceptional agency-quality designs;

• royalty-free license — repeatedly use layouts, photos, and artwork;

• mix and match artwork, stock photos, and layouts to create unique designs without starting from scratch;

• choice of professional page layout formats: QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, or Adobe Illustrator for Mac or Windows;

• fully customizable layout files with editable linked graphic files;

• high-resolution, royalty-free stock photos and artwork;

• photos are CMYK and 300 DPI;

• illustration and clipart graphics are scalable EPS;

• commercial press-ready files;

• colors accurately defined with bleeds pulled out and folds set up; and

• suggested copy content for headlines and subheads.

Note: Adobe Illustrator version does not include editable text boxes. Type has been converted to outlines.

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Manufacturer: StockLayouts LLC

Print & publishing professionals working with Adobe InDesign workflows want to benefit from the leading technology in automatic image analysis and enhancement but prefer to stay in their operator’s trusted environment.

Greeker ID enables the user to scramble selected text. This proprietary technique leaves all the words right where they are on the page but makes them unreadable. This is useful for sending a client a dummy copy, yet giving him or her a clear picture of how the final piece will look. To greek text simply select the text or text boxes you wish to greek and choose greek and ungreek text from the GLUON Menu.

Once you have used this product on text you can ungreek it by selecting the text and using the greek and ungreek text menu item again.

Not only will this save time when going to finals (one is not stuck replacing ancient Lorem Ipsum copy though we also give you this option), but there cannot be any layout surprises because everyone in the production process will have been using the real copy.

Features:

• greek live copy instead of using Lorem Ipsum or squiggles;

• ungreek takes you back to your original copy;

• automatically fill an empty text box with Lorem Ipsum; and

• the Greeker interface makes it easy to greek text document wide by entering in the parameters of what sizes of text you want to be unreadable.

Manufacturer: GLUON, Inc.

Use this powerful InDesign plug-in to work in a totally new colour space that can automatically build custom colour palettes based on your own projects.

Use this powerful InDesign plug-in to work in a totally new color space that can automatically build custom color palettes based on your own projects.

Often InDesign publications have workflow that involve placing rough low-resolution, for-position-only (FPO) images when producing a layout. The designer will position, scale, and rotate the FPO images as they should appear in the final layout. After the high-resolution image is obtained, the designer needs to replace the low-res with the hi-res image. The position, scale, rotation, and cropping that was applied to the FPO image now needs to be applied to the high-resolution replacement. To go through this process manually is tedious and time consuming.

ImageSwapper for InDesign makes this process fast and simple. The user selects two points on both the original and replacement image, and with that information ImageSwapper will automatically calculate how much the replacement image should be rotated and scaled, while offering the option to manually override any setting. It features a single, straightforward dialog and offers numerous features that enable fast, precise, and seamless replacement of low-res images.

Choose two points on the original image and the same two points on the replacement image, and ImageSwapper will calculate the exact rotation and scaling necessary.

Use the visual tools to quickly set up an image swap, then fine tune changes with ImageSwapper's manual controls. ImageSwapper allows the user to separately enable, disable, and override scale and rotation amounts, and it supports minimum thresholds.

Replace all images in a document in a single sitting. ImageSwapper is loaded with features to save time and increase efficiency.

Featuers:

• simple and effective user interface;

• detailed, high-resolution views of original and replacement images;

• visual placement of reference points;

• manual override options for greater precision;

• tracks replaced images as you work; and

• replaces multiple instances of same file all at once or one at a time.

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Manufacturer: Teacup Software

InCatalog and InCatalog Pro: Say good-bye to double data entry!

InCatalog and InCatalog Pro: Say good-bye to double data entry!

InData is a document building tool that brings the full layout, design, typographic and picture publishing power of InDesign to bear on all your data-driven repetitive publishing tasks.

For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.

Bundle includes Sonar Bookends InDex /InTOC, Sonar Bookends InXref, Sonar Bookends InFnote, Sonar Bookends InSeq, and Sonar Bookends Activate (a $975 value).

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Manufacturer: Virginia Systems, Inc.

For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.

Bundle includes Sonar Bookends InDex Pro, Sonar Bookends InXref, Sonar Bookends InFnote, Sonar Bookends InSeq, and Sonar Bookends Activate (a $1175 value).

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Manufacturer: Virginia Systems, Inc.

InFlow provides automatic page insertion for InDesign. Turn any master-page text thread into an auto-flow text thread in seconds. When InFlow detects over set text, it creates a new document page (instead of requiring the user to create it manually) and links the current text story to the auto-flow text threads on the newly created page so that text can flow automatically.

InFlow can automatically flow placed text, typed text, or text generated by other Plug-ins, such as InData and InCatalog for which it was originally created (and with which it's bundled).

No need to hold down special keys to activate InDesign's very limited auto-flow capabilities when placing text — just click the loaded cursor on an auto-flow frame and let InFlow do the work.

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Manufacturer: Em Software Inc.

IniCaps designs were inspired by European calligraphers from the 15th and 16th centuries. Among them you will get derivative work from MatteoVeneti, Christolphe Plantin, Alessandro Paganini, CharlesEstienne to name a few.

InPreflight is a comprehensive quality-control and file-packaging solution for Adobe InDesign. InPreflight saves you hours of checking your documents manually and dealing with consequences of costly mistakes.

InPreflight is a comprehensive quality-control and file-packaging solution for Adobe InDesign. InPreflight saves you hours of checking your documents manually and dealing with consequences of costly mistakes.

Enfocus Instant PDF 08 makes producing press-ready PDFs easy for creative profes-sionals. Using award-winning Enfocus Certified PDF technology, it's the simplest and most reliable way to create PDFs that comply with your print or advertisement vendors' specifications.

LinkOptimizer is a workflow solution to automatically reduce the size of images linked to InDesign documents by eliminating excessive image data. LinkOptimizer will help you save valuable storage space, save time, and reduce production costs in various ways.

LinkOptimizer is a workflow solution to automatically reduce the size of images linked to InDesign documents by eliminating excessive image data. LinkOptimizer will help you save valuable storage space, save time, and reduce production costs in various ways.