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Release: InData 2.9.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch fixes Anchored Object settings on imported frames.

Release: Xtags 2.8.4 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch fixes a bug that was producing incorrect picture box tags.

Release: WordsFlow 2.15.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch release works around an InDesign bug and fixes a few problems with exporting and updating.

Release: DocsFlow 2.17 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release centralizes import settings, improves support for hyperlinks and cross-references, and enhances product stability.

Release: InCatalog 2.22.5 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch improves product stability when using tagged text initialization files.

Release: WordsFlow 2.15 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release improves stability when working with hyperlinks and cross-references.

Release: Xtags 2.8.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release adds tags for page break characters and improves text box compatibility with object styles.

Release: Xtags 3.14.1 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This patch fixes conditional picture imports and lets old-style Mac-Roman/Win-Latin files contain embedded utf-8-encoded Unicode characters.

Release: Xtags 2.8.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch allows embedded utf-8-encoded Unicode characters in Mac-Roman/Win-Latin files.

Release: InCatalog 2.22.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch fixes a problem with ODBC key field auto-quoting.

Release: Xcatalog 3.13.1 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This patch release fixes a few issues with key fields.

Release: WordsFlow 2.14.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch fixes the export of images placed from multi-image files.

Release: DocsFlow 2.16.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch responds to an upcoming Google server change and fixes a problem with drag’n’drop from Google Drive FS.

Release: InData 2.9.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch allows embedded utf-8-encoded Unicode characters in Mac-Roman/Win-Latin imports.

Release: InCatalog 2.22.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch fixes a crash when closing a Create Data dialog in newer macOSes.

Release: Xtags 2.8.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch release fixes how poorly-encoded tagged text files are reported.

Release: InCatalog 2.22.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch release fixes a problem with key-from-contents links.

Release: WordsFlow 2.14.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This patch release fixes a problem with updating Excel links in InDesign CC 2019.

Release: Xtags 2.8 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2019.

Release: InData 2.9 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2019.

Release: InCatalog 2.22 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2019.

Release: DocsFlow 2.16 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2019 and fixes some minor issues.

Release: WordsFlow 2.14 for InDesign CS5–CC2019

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2019.

Release: Xcatalog 3.13 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This release adds support for default field values and addresses a couple minor issues.

Release: Xtags 3.14 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This release of Xtags removes support for obsolete bit-mapped frame styles.

Release: Xtags 2.7 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds a frame alignment parameter and removes support for bit-mapped frame styles.

Release: InCatalog 2.21 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for default field values and addresses a few minor issues.

Release: WordsFlow 2.13.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch improves stability when working with bookmarks and endnotes, fixes problems with Place with WordsFlow…, and addresses an issue with commas in exported style names.

Release: Xtags 2.6.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch release addresses problems with applying character, paragraph, and object styles.

Release: WordsFlow 2.13 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release greatly improves Word exports, adds a way to directly create WordsFlow links, and makes placing with WordsFlow scriptable.

Release: DocsFlow 2.15.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch release includes a fix for the Import Options dialog in InDesign CC 2018.

Release: WordsFlow 2.12 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release prevents unnecessary Missing Plug-ins messages and improves product stability.

Release: DocsFlow 2.15 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release prevents unnecessary Missing Plug-ins messages, overhauls progress bars, reduces document load times, and improves stability when updating stories.

Release: WordsFlow 2.11.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This quick release improves compatibility with Excel files and adds basic support for InDesign index markers.

Release: Xcatalog 3.12 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This release of Xcatalog adds support for QuarkXPress 2018 and discontinues support for QuarkXPress 2015.

Release: Xdata 4.9 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This release of Xdata adds support for QuarkXPress 2018, discontinues support for QuarkXPress 2015, and fixes problems with the macOS Universal Clipboard.

Release: Xtags 3.13 for QuarkXPress 2016/2017/2018

This release of Xtags adds support for QuarkXPress 2018, discontinues support for QuarkXPress 2015, and fixes a problem with the macOS Universal Clipboard.

InDesign Rejects Custom Excel Cell Ranges

We’ve recently discovered that InDesign’s Excel import filter has a weird, long-standing bug where it won’t accept a custom Cell Range if the sheet contains exactly 26 columns (or a multiple of 26 columns). While it’s annoying if you run into this problem while Placing a sheet with WordsFlow, it’s downright insidious if you run into it while updating a linked sheet.

To see the problem, create a new document in any version of InDesign (CS5–CC 2018), bring up the Place dialog, check Show Import Options, and then select an Excel file (xlsx only) containing a sheet with exactly 26 columns (such that the last column is Z). Once the Import Options dialog is shown, select the sheet, enter a valid, custom sub-Cell Range, and then click OK. You’ll see this error message:

At this point, the error can be worked around by simply adding (or removing) a column. If you add a column, it doesn’t need to be used in what’s imported, it just needs to hold a value (be non-empty) in the Excel sheet. Alternatively, the file can be down-saved to an old-style Excel Workbook (xls format), if that works better for you.

Now, imagine that you have a linked Excel sheet that was placed with WordsFlow and a custom Cell Range.

You select the link, click Edit Original, and work on the Excel file a bit and maybe add a few columns such that the sheet now happens to contain exactly 26 columns. You save, close Excel, and pop back into InDesign, and then find yourself presented with

when InDesign attempts to auto-Update the edited link. And that’s where this bug will get you, because that generic message will leave you not knowing why the link update failed.

As dire as the message sounds, don’t panic; the link is still valid and the fix is the same as above. Just re-edit the linked sheet, add (or remove) a single column, save it, close Excel, and then give the link update another try.

For Excel files with multiple sheets, WordsFlow displays the link’s selected Sheet and Cell Range in the Links panel’s Link Info section. (If they’re not already showing, select Panel Options… in the Links panel’s popup menu and then check both Sheet and Cell Range in the Show in Link Info column.)

Many thanks to user grum/Graham who documented this bug years ago in an online Adobe forum thread. We’ve resubmitted it in Adobe’s online bug database; please up-vote it if the problem affects you.

Release: DocsFlow 2.14.4 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release addresses issues with column breaks, Team Drives, exporting, and updating.

Release: InData 2.8.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch fixes an incompatibility with macOS Sierra’s Universal Clipboard.

Release: WordsFlow 2.11.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release fixes problems with updating and improves stability.

Release: InData 2.8 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release augments the fieldindex() function and corrects a long-standing problem when using XPress Tags translation tables in styled puts.

Release: DocsFlow 2.14.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release works much more efficiently with large tables and fixes a couple minor problems.

Release: WordsFlow 2.11 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds full support for CC 2018’s endnotes and includes a number of other fairly significant fixes and improvements.

Release: Xtags 2.6 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release supports Quark’s new Conditional Style Markers (<\r>), adds Frame Fitting parameters, and improves compatibility with object styles.

Release: DocsFlow 2.14.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release fixes a connection issue with Google Team Drive accounts.

Release: WordsFlow 2.10.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release fixes a compatibility problem with links created without WordsFlow installed.

Release: DocsFlow 2.14.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release fixes a problem with connections to some non-Team Drive accounts.

Release: DocsFlow 2.14 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for Google Team Drives and Google Drive File Stream.

Release: Xtags 3.12 for QuarkXPress 2015/2016/2017

This release supports Quark’s new Conditional Style Markers (<\r>).

Release: DocsFlow 2.13.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch addresses incompatibilities with CC 2018’s new endnotes feature.

Release: InData 2.7.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch fixes a problem with the pageinfo function.

Release: WordsFlow 2.10.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This patch addresses incompatibilities with CC 2018’s new endnotes feature.

Release: DocsFlow 2.13 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2018.

Em plug-ins for Adobe InDesign CC 2018

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve released all but one of our plug-ins for Adobe’s just-released InDesign CC 2018 update. Notably absent is DocsFlow, in which we found a last minute show-stopper. We hope to have it fixed and released in the next few days, so keep an eye on our release channel for further DocsFlow news.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t updated to CC 2018, and depend on DocsFlow for production, please hold off until we have it released.

If you’d like to start playing with CC 2018 without DocsFlow, you can update, but when you do, it’s critically important to display the Advanced Options in Adobe Creative Cloud’s update dialog and un-check Remove old versions. That will leave your previous version (CC 2017, most likely) untouched, so you can continue using it.

If you’ve already updated and had your older version auto-removed, you can click on the InDesign CC entry’s down arrow, select Other versions, and then click on the Install next to the previous version. Finally, download and install the Em plug-ins you were using before (from the relevant product page’s Downloads sidebar), and you should be fully back in business.

If you purchased a new or upgrade license since January 1, 2017, we’ll be emailing you your free upgrade license in the next few days. Otherwise, you can purchase an upgrade from our online store, or contact us for other options.

Release: Xtags 2.5 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2018.

Release: InData 2.7 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2018.

Release: InCatalog 2.20 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2018.

Release: WordsFlow 2.10 for InDesign CS5–CC2018

This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2018 and includes a couple minor fixes.

Connecting with FileMaker Pro 16

On macOS, our InCatalog and Xcatalog data linking products use a technology called Apple Events to make a direct, non-odbc connection with FileMaker Pro. Unfortunately, FileMaker Pro 16’s new Extended Privilege security setting disables support for this type of connection by default. So while InCatalog 2.19 (or later) and Xcatalog 3.10 (or later) support FileMaker Pro 16, they may fail to establish a connection with a fresh installation of it or may fail with an error like

The on-line access of field ‘price’ (subfield ‘0’, key ‘xyz’, data descriptor ‘MyDD.txt’, map ‘’) failed: error -10004 ()

when attempting to update with it.

To change this Extended Privilege setting and restore access to your FileMaker databases, open the database and manage its security settings (File > Manage > Security…). If Manage Security is showing the Basic Setup dialog, select the user and then click the Edit… button next to the user’s selected Privilege Set to bring up the Edit Privilege Set dialog. If Manage Security is showing the Detailed Setup dialog, select the Privilege Sets tab, select a Privilege Set, and then click the Edit… button.

Once in the Edit Privilege Set dialog, check the Allow Apple events and ActiveX to perform FileMaker operations option to allow a direct connection from InCatalog and Xcatalog.

The latest version of InCatalog and Xcatalog can be downloaded here.

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