June 2018 progress report

June 2, 2018 by

We thought it would be a good time (right before CreativePro Week 2018) to stop and take a look at the progress we’ve made with the InDesign plug-in products over the past year or so.

Of course, the InDesign plug-ins were all upgraded for the CC 2018 release back in mid-October 2017.

And we’ll gloss over the dozens of ongoing smaller improvements and bug fixes that are part of the normal process of keeping the products “in tune” and up to date. For those details, you can view each product’s release news using the “release history” links below.

WordsFlow

  • Added full end note support (as they first appeared in CC 2018). This ended up being a wildly complex, multi-part challenge, given the way Adobe implemented end notes.

  • Added page-reference index markers to .doc export, supporting them on update as well.

  • Made massive performance improvements in large table updates (whether Word or Excel). In one case, involving a 2000-row table, the improved code saw a 250-times speedup.

  • Added change tracking on update, so you can see what happened to the story (how it was edited on both sides) after each update-merge.

  • Added rational support for style groups.

  • For further details: release history.

DocsFlow

  • Added support for the new Google Team Drives, in parallel with normal Google Docs files/folders.

  • Added support for the new Google Drive File Stream for local file system access on macOS/Windows.

  • Made same massive performance improvements as WordsFlow (see above) for large table updates.

  • Added full relinking support for Google Docs documents/sheets.

  • Added support for sharing import options among all documents in a book.

  • Added change tracking on update, so you can see what happened to the story (how it was edited on both sides) after each update-merge.

  • Added support for placing and updating from view-only Google Docs documents/sheets.

  • For further details: release history.

InData

  • Added prototype frame “badges” (visibility controllable) to indicate which story is the prototype.

  • Made the fieldindex() function useful.

  • Adapted to the new macOS Sierra universal clipboard, for clipboard imports.

  • Made variables essentially unlimited in length.

  • Added full POSIX pathname support.

  • For further details: release history.

InCatalog

  • Added support for FileMaker Pro 15, 16, 17.

  • Improved the InCatalog linker panel look & feel to better match InDesign’s updated user interface.

  • For further details: release history.

WordPress.org

© 2010 Em Software - Business WordPress Theme by ThemeShift