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February 25, 2009
InDesign & InCopy update coming your way
Heads up!
Adobe is releasing a CS4 updater via the Adobe Update Manager - just went live this morning (February 25th) - and I apologize for the late update.
This update provides key fixes in the areas of Scripting, Master Pages, Digital Editions, Import/Export Graphics, as well as other miscellaneous issues.
Here are a few specific bug fixes included in the dot release. See the read me for the full list.
• Master Page Items from a placed InDesign document are dropped when exporting to PDF.
• InDesign CS3 documents converted to InDesign CS4 reflow unexpectedly due to hyphenation limits.
• When exporting a document to .SWF, “mailto:” hyperlinks have “http://” appended to them, making them inoperable.
• Page turns are incorrect for right-to-left bound documents exported to SWF.
November 18, 2008
Using Eclipse to edit IDML
In some of my MAX presentations, I edited IDML files in Flexbuilder. Since a couple of folks asked for instructions on how to set Flexbuilder up to do this, I'll post it here. It's actually pretty simple...
IDML (InDesign markup language) is an XML representation of an InDesign document. You can export an InDesign document to IDMLM, edit the XML inside the IDML, and and the re-import into InDesign to create a modified version of the original InDesign document. I use Flexbuilder to open the IDML package, make changes, and resave.
May 28, 2008
Getting Started with InDesign Programming
Ok - this is pretty dang cool.
Getting started on the InDesign SDK requires a fair amount of horsepower. There are lots of resources on devnet - but here's a book, published by Kris Coppieters, that approaches the subject from the perspective of someone who learned it from scratch, and is using and teaching the material.
You can get your own perfect-bound, glossy cover copy for a measly $89.50 USD from Lulu. Here's the link
October 8, 2007
Public Update of InDesign and InCopy CS3
Heads up to InDesign and InCopy Developers... There's an update you should know about...
August 28, 2006
Adobe is hiring a Senior Computer Scientist
We need a senior computer scientist with experience writing InDesign Plug-ins!
July 5, 2006
Fate of Codewarrrior 9.3
Adobe Developer Support can only support the use of CodeWarrior 9.3 with the Adobe InDesign CS2 Product Family SDK - which is no longer commercially available. Further to this, our investigations with CodeWarrior 10 has highlighted library incompatibilities.
The bottom line is, CodeWarrior 10 should not be used with the with the Adobe InDesign CS2 Product Family SDK.
Freescale, the publishers of CodeWarrior, are supportive of our efforts, and are working with us to resolve the issue. I'll have more details as they are worked out.
June 15, 2006
Using InDesign Server with Flex
As part of the Adobe developer week, we asked J.P. Terry, VP, Client Services, SmartDoc Technologies to present a case-study on how SmartDoc integrated InDesign Server with Flex. You can see the recorded presentation at...
http://seminars.breezecentral.com/p97264097/
The entire week of presentations can be found at http://www.adobe.com/communities/developerweek/
Questions and answers follow in the next part of this blog...
August 30, 2005
Here's how to get the InDesign Debug version
One of the big advantages of the ASN developer program is access to the InDesign debug project. Access to the debug is controlled, and is different than access to the freely available InDesign SDK.
August 23, 2005
Whence the HLA (High Level API)?
I've had a fair number of questions about obtaining the High Level API
- aka "HLA". Sad to say, it's not available anymore. It was an
experiment in simplying the InDesign SDK, and developers that tried it
weren't satsified. We are constantly looking for ways to make
developers more productive, so we may revisit this concept in the
future. But for now, it's not available.
August 22, 2005
InDesign ME and CE
Customers will sometimes ask you to support InDesign ME or InDesign CE. These are products created by Winsoft. Since these are licensed versions, it is difficult for us to obtain testing versions for developers.
InDesign 3 CE & ME as well as InCopy 3 CE & ME are built on an extended version of InDesign/InCopy. The extension makes it necessary to have a different SDK from the standard Adobe SDK. WinSoft does not provide a different SDK, but instead provides an "SDK supplement" that allows a developer to adapt his plug-in to the CE & ME versions.
Winsoft does support the enhanced SDK.
InDesign Worker - promote your plug-in here
The aim of InDesign Worker is to offer InDesign users a comprehensive, neutral and non-sale oriented database through the available plug-ins and additional tools. InDesign Workder provides professional and independent editorial evaluation through the InDesign-Worker editorial team, user ratings and user commentary of all tools. Localized into German and English.
There are English and German log-in areas that allow developers to post freeware or evaluation versions.
InDesign User Group promotes your plug-in
InDesign User Group is a website for international InDesign User Groups to share information. You can provide information about your plug-in for free in the Third-party listing.
To contribute information about your plug-in, contact Chris Converse
August 20, 2005
InDesign Debug version vs Adobe Updater
Adobe uses an automatic update mechanism to make sure that customers have access to the most recent version of software. However, this updater is not able to distinguish between the release version of InDesign, and the debug version of InDesign. You should not allow the automatic updater to update the InDesign debug version.
August 16, 2005
Listing your product on the XMP page
Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. if you are using this as part of your technology solution, you might want to consider listing your product on the XMP Partners page.