InCatalog/Xcatalog

Release: Xcatalog 8/9.3.5 for QuarkXPress 8/9

This release of Xcatalog adds support for QuarkXPress 9 to that for QuarkXPress 8 and drops support for both QuarkXPress 6 and 7.

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.8.4 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This maintenance release addresses issues with styled prices and ODBC connectivity.

Em 9.x XTensions now available for QuarkXPress 9

Quark announced recently that QuarkXPress 9 is set to ship on April 26th (later this month), with a “test drive” version available until then on the Quark web site.

We’re delighted to announce that the 9.x versions of our XTensions–compatible with the final QuarkXPress 9 release–are now available from the right sidebar of this post, and from the respective product pages.

This version of QuarkXPress looks to have a tremendous set of new features and improvements, and should be a must-have upgrade for anyone who wants to build e-books or make mobile apps from QuarkXPress content. This new version also catches up to its main competitor in various ways: conditional styles, bullets and numbering, callouts, story editing, etc.

One of the new features of QuarkXPress 9 that greatly improves our products is the new anchored-table-breaking ability. This means you’ll be able to create anchored tables in Xdata that break automatically over column or page boundaries.

InDesign Secrets podcast talking about InCatalog, InData

The latest InDesign Secrets podcast—from David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion—talks at some length about both InCatalog and InData. (The lead-in to our products starts around 11:00, but the whole podcast is gold for data publishers.)

These podcasts are always great, but this one is particularly relevant to anyone interested in our products.

One nit, though: David talks about InCatalog being the big brother of InData, which isn’t quite true: it’s more like a brother who does something fairly distinct but complementary. (InData builds, InCatalog links, very roughly.)

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.8.3 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This minor release addresses an issue with scripted udpates.

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.8.2 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This release provides a UI fix for folks using the X qualifier and sets the default ODBC character encoding, if not otherwise specified by the % qualifier, to UTF-8.

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.8.1 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This minor release addresses problems with subfields and tagged text and completes InCatalog’s adoption of Unicode.

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.8 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This release adds picture positioning options, improves compatibility with legacy documents and fixes issues with nested styles, scripting and the tagger palette.

Release: Xcatalog 6/7/8.3.4 for QuarkXPress 6/7/8

This release adds picture positioning options, improves compatibility with legacy documents and fixes issues with subfields and the ODBC Login dialog.

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.7.1 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This minor release adds control over master pages updating, improves type on a path support and addresses UI issues.

Release: InCatalog 6/7.2.7 for InDesign CS4/CS5

This release of InCatalog for InDesign adds support for InDesign CS5 to that for CS4, drops support for CS2/CS3, adds full XPress-tagged text support bi-directionally without needing our Xtags product, adds anchored text frame support in Xtags, changes the link markers to display as brackets (like in Xcatalog), adds link markers for tagged page items, merges the Pro and non-Pro binaries, adds support for abitrary per-field or all-field WHERE clause prefixes when using ODBC, adds full Unicode support when communicating with FileMaker, and fixes some long-standing bugs.

Release: InCatalog 4/5/6.2.6.7 for InDesign CS2/CS3/CS4

These notes cover all the InCatalog 4/5/6 release series.

Release: Xcatalog 6/7/8.3.3.2 for QuarkXPress 6/7/8

This set of release notes covers the whole Xcatalog 6/7/8 series.

Important: versions prior to 6/7/8.3.2 will not recognize or display links created in 6/7/8.3.2 (or later) due to the addition of full Unicode support in the 6/7/8.3.2 release. This means that if one person updates from 6/7/8.3.1 (or older), everyone with whom they share documents will need to update their copy of Xcatalog as well.