Release: WordsFlow 2.6.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This minor release includes a fix for a potential application freeze when updating, and addresses a few other issues with updating and exporting.
Release: DocsFlow 2.8 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release adds an Update Linked Google Docs Document option to the main menu and fixes a few problems including an uncommon-but-obnoxious application freeze.
Release: InData 2.3.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This quick release addresses an issue with header/footer updating.
Release: InCatalog 2.16 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release introduces our custom installers, adds support for FileMaker 14, and addresses problems with licensing, file extensions and encodings, and picture link generation.
Release: InData 2.3.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This patch introduces our custom installers and addresses a problem with header/footer updating.
Release: DocsFlow 2.7 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release officially introduces our custom installers, adds import control for cell insets, and fixes minor issues with licensing and export.
Release: WordsFlow 2.6.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This patch release officially introduces our custom installers and addresses minor issues with licensing, Word document import, and Word document export.
Release: InCatalog 2.15 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2015 and abandons Extension Manager CC in favor of, for now, a manual installation procedure (see below).
Release: Xdata 4.5.1 for QuarkXPress 9/10/2015
This quick release fixes an application shut-down issue when using Import from File… on Mac OS X.
Release: InData 2.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2015, abandons Extension Manager CC in favor of, for now, a manual installation procedure (see below), improves file path handling, and fixes a few additional problems.
Release: DocsFlow 2.6 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2015 and abandons Extension Manager CC in favor of, for now, a manual installation procedure (see below).
Release: WordsFlow 2.6 for InDesign CS5–CC2015
This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2015 and abandons Extension Manager CC in favor of, for now, a manual installation procedure (see below).
Release: WordsFlow 2.5 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This dot release improves Word exports and includes a number of fixes for problems with exporting and updating.
Release: DocsFlow 2.5.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release addresses a problem with yesterday’s 2.5 release that was causing successful sign-ins to be ignored.
Release: InCatalog 2.14.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release includes a number of file handling improvements.
Release: DocsFlow 2.5 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds picture export, updates the Sign In to Google Docs process, and includes a number of other improvements and fixes.
Release: Xdata 4.5 for QuarkXPress 9/10/2015
This release of Xdata adds support for QuarkXPress 2015 (both Windows and Mac OS X!), adds support for QuarkXPress 10 (Mac OS X), and includes a number of fixes and improvements.
DocsFlow users: switch to browser login immediately
On April 20th, Google is going to shut down the old-style API (application programming interface) employed when you use a direct login in DocsFlow. (You may have gotten a scary-looking notice from Google that says “ACTION REQUIRED: Your Google Apps account is using the Documents List API, which will stop functioning on April 20th, 2015”.)
Release: WordsFlow 2.4.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release mainly addresses issues with anchored, linked items causing damage to the parent story’s WordsFlow connection.
Release: DocsFlow 2.4.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release mainly addresses issues with anchored, linked items causing damage to the parent story’s DocsFlow connection.
Release: WordsFlow 2.4.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release includes fixes for styling problems when working with Word and Excel files.
Release: WordsFlow 2.4 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This point release fixes a particularly painful problem that’s been damaging Excel links during updates and resulting in “Cannot update link…” errors. If you work with Excel files, we highly recommend that you update to this release as soon as possible. Beyond that, this release contains the usual blend of fixes and improvements, this time for exporting stories and for working with Excel sheets in general. Enjoy!
Release: DocsFlow 2.4.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This quick release deals with a recent Google Drive change that was preventing drag’n’drop from working.
Release: WordsFlow 2.3.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release addresses problems with story updating and exporting.
Release: DocsFlow 2.4 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
With this release we’re introducing a new, fully functional, Pro-product trial mode with a 15-day evaluation period (details below). This release also includes improvements for text updating and exporting.
Release: InCatalog 2.14 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This minor release finds and updates links nested within a frame, fixes ODBC exports of long fields to Microsoft Excel, and lets Mac users select any file in the DD and data file dialogs.
Release: InData 2.2.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release lets Mac users select any file for import.
Release: WordsFlow 2.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
The big news with this release is the introduction of our new, fully functional, Pro-product trial mode with a 15-day evaluation period (details below). This release also includes improvements for relinking, updating, and exporting.
Release: WordsFlow 2.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds scripting support for Pro version features.
Release: InCatalog 2.13.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release fixes a problem with international price styling.
Release: DocsFlow 2.3.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release improves compatibility with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and fixes problems with the Place dialog and with table updating.
Release: WordsFlow 2.1.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds language support to docx exports and fixes a couple of issues with Update Linked Document.
Release: DocsFlow 2.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release fixes an incompatibility with the just-released InDesign CC 2014.1 update, changes how documents are displayed in DocsFlow’s Place dialog, and includes minor fixes for document updating.
Release: WordsFlow 2.1.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release fixes an incompatibility with the just-released InDesign CC 2014.1 update.
Release: DocsFlow 2.2.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This maintenance release adapts to recent Google service changes and addresses problems with drag’n’drop and sheets.
Release: WordsFlow 2.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release improves the quality and stability of exported documents.
WordsFlow and DocsFlow user guides now printable/pdf-able
In this Age of the Web, hard copy (physical or virtual) doesn’t matter to most people, but it really matters to some. So we’ve just made important parts of our web site printable or pdf-able for when you want to take some part of it offline with you in paper or digital form, for study, reference or just light vacation reading.
Release: InData 2.2.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release fixes a problem with custom subfield delimiters.
WordsFlow 2.0 review from InDesign Magazine
Jamie McKee wrote a perceptive and very positive review of our newly-released WordsFlow version 2.0 in InDesign Magazine, issue #65 of September 2014. His conclusion:
WordsFlow already offered InDesign users a solution to the Microsoft Word/ Excel-to-InDesign workflow problem we’ve all been wrestling with for years—updating linked files without losing formatting. WordsFlow Pro 2.0 takes the final step, offering full two-way capabilities so you can send the changes you’ve made in InDesign back to your original Word documents. If you regularly work with text files that are likely to be edited (and who doesn’t?), you need to take a look at WordsFlow Pro 2.0!
Release: InCatalog 2.13.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release improves compatibility with InDesign CC and InDesign CC 2014 on Windows.
Release: WordsFlow 2.0 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
We’re delighted to announce the release of WordsFlow 2.0, which adds Pro-level features that, like DocsFlow Pro, complete the workflow cycle and make WordsFlow fully two-way. With the Pro version, you can now update your Word documents in place from the latest linked InDesign story contents, and you can export’n’link any InDesign story to a new Word document as well.
Release: DocsFlow 2.2.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This patch release addresses an issue with the recently-introduced story status indicator on the DocsFlow link icon.
Release: WordsFlow Pro 2.0 beta 3
This release brings the beta current with the 1.3 release, adds support for CC 2014, and addresses a few beta issues.
Release: WordsFlow 1.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release mainly adds support for back-saving to previous versions of InDesign, but also addresses a few minor issues.
Release: DocsFlow 2.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release mainly adds support for back-saving to previous versions of InDesign, but also addresses a few minor issues.
Re-release of CC/CC 2014 plugins
Due to a packaging bug on our part (we initially thought it was an Extension Manager problem), we had to re-package and re-release all the CC and CC 2014 plugins just now.
Release: DocsFlow 2.1.2 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This quick release fixes a build problem with the CC 2014 Windows plug-in and improves update behavior in low memory conditions.
Release: WordsFlow 1.2.4 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This quick release fixes a build problem with the CC 2014 Windows plug-in and improves update behavior in low memory conditions.
InData builds 2100-page directory for RIBA
Phil Handley, Design and Production Manager, and Michèle Woodger, Content Editor, share with us how they built a complex directory for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
The RIBA Product Selector directory is a hard-copy publication featuring construction product information and advertising material, distributed to 20,000 architects each year. The publication contains 8 different indexes with cross references, 800 pages of advertising material and a further 500 pages of educational/continuing professional development information. Until 2013 it was published as a 2500 page, two-volume hardback set, with four corresponding websites making use of the same data.
The directory has been in print since 1982, and due to this formidable 32 year history, the business workflows were complex (advertisements and indexes are handled by two distinct teams), the pre-existing, un-user-friendly DTP software was no longer suitable, and the directory contents were in need of a design refresh.
Release: WordsFlow Pro 2.0 beta 2
This release fixes a critical and frequently-hit bug in WordsFlow Pro export. (Export would fail with a backtrace error.)
Release: DocsFlow 2.1.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds compatibility with InDesign CC 2014 along with a few fixes.
Release: WordsFlow 1.2.3 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds compatibility with InDesign CC 2014 along with a few fixes.
Release: InCatalog 2.13.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds compatibility with InDesign CC 2014 and a few fixes.
Release: InData 2.2.1 for InDesign CS5–CC2014
This release adds compatibility with InDesign CC 2014 and a few minor fixes.
Release: WordsFlow Pro 2.0 beta 1
We’re happy and excited to share an early public release of WordsFlow Pro (now at version 2.0) for your evaluation and feedback. WordsFlow Pro, like DocsFlow Pro, completes the workflow cycle, and makes WordsFlow fully two-way. With the Pro version, you can now update your Word documents in place with the latest linked InDesign story contents, and you can export any InDesign story to a new Word document as well (which also links it automatically).
Plugins plan for InDesign CC 2014
Adobe released the Creative Cloud Suite for 2014 this week, and we want to let you know our plans. Since Adobe changed the document format, this will unfortunately require re-releases of all our plugins.
We’re ready to go with our plugin updates, but need to package and release the plugins, and are short-handed during vacation time. But we plan to have it all done and released by the end of the first full week in July (the 11th, give or take a day or three either way).
Any existing InDesign CC license will work with these new CC 2014 plugins, so you should be able to download the updated plugins and go.
Update
We released the CC 2014 plugins on July 14th and 15th, 2014. See the individual plugins’ release notes.
See you at PePcon 2014!
We’re now just two weeks away from PePcon 2014, in Chicago this year. As ever, we recommend it highly, if there are any seats left.
If you’re planning to attend, please do visit our table, where we’ll be showing our dashing new WordsFlow Pro product (hint: two-way Microsoft Word workflow!), and offering prizes, 6-month evaluation licenses, and a special 25% show discount. Plus, we’d love to meet you in the flesh, if we haven’t already; and, if we have, it’s always great to catch up…
Release: Xcatalog 3.6 for QuarkXPress 9/10
This release of Xcatalog adds support for QuarkXPress 10 (Windows only, for the moment), discontinues support for QuarkXPress 8, and includes a number of improvements.
Release: Xdata 4.4 for QuarkXPress 9/10
This release of Xdata adds support for QuarkXPress 10 (Windows only, for the moment), discontinues support for QuarkXPress 8, and includes a number of improvements.
Release: DocsFlow 2.1 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This dot-release improves ODF support, adds support for exporting InDesign’s various story breaks, and improves overall stability.
QuarkXPress 10 XTensions update
Over the past few months, we’ve heard from a number of you wondering when our Xdata, Xcatalog, and Xtags XTensions would be ready for QuarkXPress 10. While we’ve responded individually, we’ve been remiss in not publicizing our development status. We’d like to correct this now by sharing with everyone both our current status and our plans.
Release: InCatalog 2.12.3 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release addresses a couple of problems found when working with tags using indirect keys.
Release: DocsFlow 2.0.11 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This DocsFlow patch corrects a plug-in packaging problem.
Release: InCatalog 2.12.2 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release includes a fix for a problem that could cause InDesign to shut down in some OS X 10.6 and 10.7 configurations.
Release: InData 2.1.1 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release includes a fix for a problem that could cause InDesign to shut down in some OS X 10.6 and 10.7 configurations.
Release: DocsFlow 2.0.10 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This DocsFlow quick release fixes an issue with links to placed GDrive documents and also story export.
Release: DocsFlow 2.0.9 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This DocsFlow quick release fixes minor issues with updating and exporting.
Release: InCatalog 2.12.1 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release of InCatalog adds support for FileMaker Pro 13.
David Blatner’s new lynda.com data publishing tutorial
David Blatner has released a brand-new data merge and data publishing tutorial on lynda.com. As with anything by the InDesign Secrets crew, it’s quite well done.
This new tutorial also includes a 5-minute overview of our InData product, called “InData, a more powerful Data Merge“. The lynda.com folks have kindly made this video freely viewable.
Release: InCatalog 2.12 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
After a painfully long time in the works, we are pleased to be able to finally announce the availability of InCatalog for InDesign CC.
DocsFlow helps out at Syracuse University
Seth Gitner, Assistant Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University, writes:
In early 2012, a dozen students in the Multimedia Projects course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University set out to create an interactive storytelling mobile tablet application on Central New York’s notorious winters.
Famous for frigid temperatures and record-crushing snowfalls, Central New York averages 116.9 inches of snow annually. During the previous winter, more than 179 inches of snow accumulated, making “winter” a natural choice for an interactive storytelling project.
The story ends with a call-out to DocsFlow:
The stories for this application were inserted using a content management system that combined Google Documents and InDesign using the InDesign plugin DocsFlow, from Em Software.
Go read the whole thing—it’s a great story.
Release: DocsFlow 2.0.8 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release resolves several problems with exporting stories and with updating a story’s associated Google Docs document.
Release: WordsFlow 1.2.2 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release improves the quality and general stability of updating.
Release: DocsFlow 2.0.7 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This patch release addresses issues with updating Google Docs documents from Adobe InDesign (via Update Original) and improves the quality and general stability of updating.
Release: InData 2.1 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This release adds support for InDesign CC and includes, among other things, a number of new functions for working with strings.
Release: DocsFlow 2.0.6 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This release adds support for InDesign CC and includes improvements to product stability and usability.
Release: WordsFlow 1.2.1 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6/CC
This release adds support for InDesign CC and includes improvements to product stability and usability.
InDesign CC releases update
Quite a bit of time has slipped by since our last InDesign CC communiqué, and now with November suddenly upon us we wanted take a moment to share our InDesign CC porting progress.
Release: WordsFlow 1.2 for InDesign CS5/CS5.5/CS6
This release of WordsFlow adds an on-frame link indicator, addresses a long-standing problem when working with custom-anchored images, improves the quality of updates, and increases overall workflow stability.
