MadeToCompare for InCopy provides collation and revision tracing — with pinpoint precision. When different versions of a text are in use, or different users are working on, looking after, altering, or releasing different versions of texts, there is a question of how to check for collation and revisions. MadeToCompare for InCopy provides the answer.

This innovative Plug-in provides precisely this functionality and is the most reliable text verifier for InDesign- and InCopy-based publishing environments. It analyzes versions of open InCopy documents and then presents all text-related discrepancies in a dynamically generated HTML document. MadeToCompare identifies quickly and accurately words that have been changed or omitted, spaces that have been added or deleted, or paragraphs that have been displaced. At the end of the process, the results from the searched documents are contrasted by means of the browser, and all differences are pinpointed with the help of punctuation marks.

Features:

• provides effective protection against errors resulting from revisions and alterations to texts;

• ensures greater accuracy and consistency where a number of staff are involved in working on a text;

• represents an enormous potential saving in the time and effort required for making corrections and alterations;

• combines ease of use with high performance;

• can be integrated into SoftCare K4 editing systems (an interface for WoodWing SCE is currently being prepared);

• takes texts from two InCopy documents and looks for discrepancies;

• creates HTML files which list and chart all differences;

• can display results in a choice of view modes; and

• works from all InCopy modes (page proofs, sections of text, layout).

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Manufacturer: callas software gmbh

MadeToPrint is a powerful Plug-In that optimizes print output as well as the creation of PDF, EPS and Post Script files. MadeToPrint offers a large number of options which go beyond the print settings of Adobe InDesign. Now includes imposition features.

MadeToPrint for InDesign was developed to streamline and enhance one of the most neglected, but vital aspects of InDesign: printing. Now includes imposition features.

The MathMagic Plug-in provides you with the user interface (a menu and a tool button) which enables you to create and edit equations directly inside the InDesign document. Then, it communicates with the external MathMagic Pro application seamlessly.

OPI_Swapper is a tool for managing low- and high-resolution data in a desktop-publishing application within the scope of an OPI system.

This dynamic plug-in lets you create different page sizes and both vertical and horizontal spreads inside one InDesign document. One page could be Letter and another page could be A3, and next one could be the size of an envelope. Inserts, foldout and even spines can now be part of the same document file.

The Page Printer module for Adobe InDesign allows you to output each page or spread of a document in EPS or PostScript format. For PostScript output, you have the option of creating PostScript disk files, or printing directly to a PostScript printer. The handy “Page Selection” dialog makes it easy to choose the pages or spreads you want to print, and the naming options give you control over the final output filename. Page Printer is a must-have for anyone working with third party imposition systems, or publishing PDF pages to the web.

This great set of patterns, designed by page-layout guru David Blatner, will bring you a whole new world of design possibilities in Adobe InDesign. PatternPack adds thirteen new patterns to Teacup's free PatternMaker plug-in. With everything from spirals to a barcode generator for zip codes, these thirteen new patterns are a great way to create interesting, innovative PostScript designs.

Patterns include: concentric circles, dots, random lines, random V's, sparkles, spirals, squares, triangles, waves, weave, wiggles, and zip codes.

When you load PatternPack and PatternMaker together, the thirteen patterns from PatternPack appear in PatternMaker's dropdown menu. You use the patterns in PatternPack just like you would any patterns in PatternMaker.

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Manufacturer: Teacup Software

PDF2ID (PDF to InDesign) is a PDF conversion tool for InDesign. PDF2ID converts PDFs into fully editable InDesign documents, recreating the intended construction and layout of the document. PDF2ID saves you valuable time in recreating PDF content in InDesign ; there is no need to remake the contents of a PDF to the InDesign format from scratch.

PictureXTracker searches a selected folder or a selected volume for all picture files related to one or several documents. PictureXTracker searches the volumes selected or the subdirectories contained. This allows even complex file systems to be efficiently searched for picture data — if the picture exists anywhere in the selected directory system, PictureXTracker will find it and present it to the user.

Features:

• picture-data swap can be carried out simultaneously for several documents;

• embedded pictures in InDesign documents can be edited separately;

• master pages can be included in the editing process;

• updates the assignment between the document and pictures with only a few mouse clicks, even for complex directory structures;

• allows the simultaneous reassignment of pictures to several documents;

• embedded pictures in InDesign documents can be taken into account in different ways for editing with PictureXTracker; and

• master pages can be included in or excluded from the editing process.

Optional settings enable the user to locate pictures when file suffixes are to be taken into account or not, or the search is to be case sensitive, or whether the file used for assignment should always be the one with the latest date.

In InDesign documents, and embedded pictures can be included or excluded from the editing process. Reassignment can even be carried out for all open documents at once.

After PictureXTracker has searched the directory or volume, the status dialogue shows how many pictures have been found in the directory system searched. If required, a list of the missing pictures is generated.

If PictureXTracker finds several pictures with the same name in the searched directories during the search process, the user will individually decide which picture file is to be valid.

PictureXTracker loads the selected pictures into the document, and the document is updated. PictureXTracker enables the user to replace complete or partial picture paths with others. Using Macintosh or Windows path separators, even the platform can be changed when required.

Define certain settings to be taken into account for assignment. For instance make the search case-sensitive, or if all open documents are to be searched at once the relevant settings are defined. Use wildcards in the search field. PictureXTracker thus becomes an essential tool in handling QuarkXPress or InDesign documents as well as the related pictures in changing or multiple work environments.

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Manufacturer: CodeWare

Top new features in PitStop Server 09:
• PitStop Server 09 is driven by the industry-standard Enfocus PDF preflight and auto-correction library that processes PDF files quicker and better than any other solution on the market. PitStop Server 09 takes full advantage of multiple processor or multiple-core systems. Its new predictive Action List engine that optimizes what parts of complex Action Lists need to be executed makes it faster than ever before.
• On the Mac, PitStop Server 09 is capable of behaving as a true background process. This processing mode makes PitStop Server 09 ideally suitable for use on a Mac XServe system in a true server configuration.
• To integrate PitStop Server 09 in a larger context, PitStop Server now comes with a command-line interface. The command-line interface is installed together with PitStop Server and is available to all PitStop Server 09 users at no additional cost.

PrintShop Mail is an application for variable printing. PrintShop Mail does only one job. It personalizes layouts. Using familiar layout and database tools, create the layout and manage the necessary data. Then let PrintShop Mail do the rest. The document layout is sent to the RIP only once, and variables (the personalization), text, or graphics are exchanged at high speed.

The only scaling tool with IntelliScale Technology which allows InDesign users to scale non-proportionally without distorting type and graphics using a click-and-drag tool or from the dialog. Scale entire multipage documents in one click (including page size and style sheets).

Provides document scaling and nonproportional scaling without distortion of text or graphics which yields incredible time savings. For instance, scale an 8.5" by 11" document to a 7.5" by 11" document in a single action. ProScale's IntelliScale Technology scales to non-constrained proportions while keeping text and graphics proportional.

Features:

• document-wide scaling;

• choose specific elements through the dialog box to scale throughout the document or in a multipage, or single-page document;

• choose to scale just the text boxes, text size, line weight, style sheets, graphics, tabs, and so on, or any combination thereof;

• fit-to-column and fit-to-page;

• step-and-repeat scaling;

• choice of scaling from different item locations;

• unlimited number of items on a page to scale;

• resize in one step, quickly and accurately;

• scale grouped or un-grouped selections, or any combination thereof;

• scale combinations of grouped and un-grouped selections;

• palette-based scaling tool; and

• resize any group of items by simply dragging the corners or sides.

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Manufacturer: GLUON

Organize a department and reduce confusion using Slugger to generate indispensable trafficking and document information stamped compactly and conveniently, yet very legibly on each page. In a Macintosh-production department with complex or high-volume jobs, Slugger will make sure documents travel with pertinent information attached.

Sonar Bookends InDex is a powerful index generator capable of producing both an index and a table of contents in InDesign. Several types of indices can be produced, from a basic index to a multilevel index. The index can include chapter and file names and can be of a single file or an entire folder. Cross-reference information can also be included.

Sonar Bookends InDex Pro is similar to Sonar Bookends Professional without web-site indexing, but this InDesign Plug-in additionally enables the user to make a table of contents based on style sheets and allows text to be optionally marked for indexing.

Sonar Bookends InFnote is a footnote and endnote tool for InDesign that allows users to quickly and easily add, delete or modify footnotes and endnotes in a document, A document can consist of one file, many files, one InDesign "book" or many "books".

Sonar Bookends InSequence automatically numbers figures and tables in an InDesign document making work with figures and tables easy.