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Plugins for InDesign
There's a bad InDesign bug in the latest release of 2023 (18.1) for Windows, causing any plugin that decorates the Save dialog to crash, which includes our WordsFlow, Xtags, and InCatalog plugins.
We have a workaround for these plugins in the most-recently-released versions of each plugin, so download and install the latest from their product pages, to get going again.
Another alternative is to back up to InDesign 18.0, which doesn't have the bug, but we recommend just installing our latest plugins to solve the problem.
Latest news: InDesign 2023 plugins released.
Our plugins currently run under InDesign 2021, 2022 and 2023, with older versions available and supported, but not actively developed.
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WordsFlow
Live-link and magic-merge Word and Excel documents
What if you could have a time machine to speed up your Microsoft Word-based editorial production in InDesign?
- What if you could place Word and Excel documents with live links in InDesign, and proceed with production, while your authors and editors continued working on the original documents?
- What if, when they had updates, you could magically merge their work into yours with a click (as a link update), without losing any work on either side, and with automatic notification of any conflicts?
DocsFlow
Live-link and magic-merge Google Drive documents
What if you could have a time machine to speed up InDesign editorial production, based on the world’s best real-time collaborative editor, Google Docs?
- What if you could place Google Docs documents with live links in InDesign, and proceed with production, while your authors and editors continued working on the original documents?
- What if, when they had updates, you could magically merge their work into yours with a click (as a link update), without losing any work on either side, and with automatic notification of any conflicts?
InData / Xdata
Turn your raw structured data into finished documents
What if you could have a software robot to follow your directions exactly, building data-driven documents while you watch?
- What if you could set up a template once, then flow in all your data for dozens or hundreds of pages, fully formatted and ready to print, with a single click? And repeat that for any data set?
InCatalog / Xcatalog
Connect your documents to your data and forget manual updating
What if you could have a software robot to flawlessly synchronize your documents’ contents with your data in one click?
- What if you could stop worrying about product prices and descriptions in your documents being up to date with your database or spreadsheet, and vice versa?
What if you could have a software robot that obeyed a simple tagged text file format (and not some XML monstrosity) to create formatted document contents?
