Release: Xtags 6/7/8.3.4 for QuarkXPress 6/7/8
This release of Xtags for QuarkXPress adds tags for hyperlinks, a speed-up for anchored boxes and, in the server XTension, support for multiple imports into named boxes.
Using Xtags with Drupal
Here and here are a couple of articles from the University of Kent CMS blog, providing a brief overview of how they use Xtags to drive printed output in a Drupal environment, and their experience with the process.
An Xtags overview from DPCI
There’s a great article on Xtags here, on the DPCI (Database Publishing Consultants, Inc.) website.
It covers a bit of history, the target audience for Xtags, gives a simple workflow example, and then talks about using the same tags for InDesign as for QuarkXPress, and the issues you might encounter.
Overall, an excellent overview of Xtags!
Hyperlink support in Xtags 6/7 for InDesign CS4/CS5
Since we forgot to include documentation for one major new feature in our original release notes for Xtags 6/7 for InDesign CS4/CS5 (now fixed), we thought we should call attention to it separately: Xtags now boasts new tags for hyperlinks, cross-references and text anchors. See the updated release notes.
These tags have long been requested, and we’re glad to finally deliver them with this release. Let us know how they work for you.
InData and Xtags CS5 updates now available
We’re delighted to announce that both InData and Xtags for CS5 (and CS4) are now officially released, and available for download and purchase from their respective product pages:
InData for InDesign CS4/CS5
Xtags for InDesign CS4/CS5
InCatalog for CS5 is coming to life in the labs, but is probably still a couple of weeks away from beta test.
Release: Xtags 6/7.1.3.1 for InDesign CS4/CS5
This release of Xtags for InDesign adds support for InDesign CS5 to that for CS4 (dropping support for CS2/CS3), adds tags for hyperlinks, cross-references and text anchors, adds support for Xtags import and export through the standard InDesign place/export dialogs as well as drag’n'drop, for above-line and custom positioning of anchored frames, for anchored frame position locking, and improves missing picture handling.
Release: Xtags 4/5/6.1.3 for InDesign CS2/CS3/CS4
This release of Xtags for InDesign adds standard white and black color names for XPress cross-compatibility, and adds more intelligent handling of non-style-applying @ characters in text (e.g., as used for email addresses).
(This release includes all release notes back to the beginning of the CS2/CS3/CS4 series.)
Release: Xtags 6/7/8.3.3.5 for XPress 6/7/8
This set of releases includes a huge set of bug fixes, and such features XPress 8 support, XPress Server 7/8 support, as intelligent @-sign handling, improved missing picture handling, Xtags Pro (table) handling improvements, a massive performance speed-up when placing unanchored boxes (up to 10X), “version 2″ variants of all the anchored box tags, new “none” box tags, box background blend support, auto-shrinking of text boxes horizontally and in the face of multiple columns, box background and frame opacity support, blends in table, row, and cell tags, and much more.
Note that this covers all releases back to the start of the XPress 6/7/8 series.
Release: Xtags 4/5.1.1 for InDesign CS2/CS3
This set of releases fixes a huge range of bugs and adds improved bold/italic font handling, layer support, object-level scripting support, hierarchical styles, no-content (“none”) frames, updated anchored frame variants with more control, full runaround types on frames, translation tables, macros, tagged text output, and much more.
(This includes all release notes back to the beginning of the CS2/CS3 series.)
Release: Xtags 3/4.0.2 for InDesign CS/CS2
These early releases of Xtags added quite a few smalle features, but mostly fixed bugs in the initial release.
Note that this includes all release notes back to the original Xtags 3.0 for InDesign CS.
