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InData Changelog

What's new in InData 2.3.0

Aug 1, 2015
  • 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.
  • Changes:
  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2015. The CC 2015 plug-in requires a valid InData CC 2015-level license.
  • Abandons Adobe’s Extension Manager CC application as the preferred means of installing CC plug-ins. Because Adobe has deprecated Extension Manager, and, more importantly, because the latest Extension Manager update appears to break installation with zxp files altogether (not that it was ever all that reliable), we have decided to move away from Extension Manager and zxp-based installs.
  • While we work on creating our own, custom InDesign CC installers, we will be providing our CC plug-ins as manual installations. What this means is that you will need to select the download link in the sidebar that’s appropriate for your OS (Mac OS or Windows), expand the downloaded zip file, and then drag files out of the archive and drop them into your InDesign app’s Plug-ins folder (for which you’ll need administrative privileges).
  • Step-by-step installation instructions are included in the readme within the archive.
  • On Windows, please pay particular attention to whether you’re installing into a 32- or 64-bit application as indicated in InDesign’s About dialog (it shows x32 after the version number for a 32-bit application, x64 for 64-bit). In the download, we’ve included both 32- and 64-bit plug-ins for CC, but only 64-bit plug-ins, the default, for CC 2014 and CC 2015.
  • Adds support for new 10.6-style Finder bookmarks (aliases). (Mac OS X only)
  • Adds full support for the auto-detection of HFS and POSIX paths. (Mac OS X only)
  • Fixes a problem where shortcuts (aliases) in paths might not always be recognized. (Windows only)
  • Improves the handling of UNC and POSIX paths. (Windows only)
  • Fixes the Hide window and Don’t show changes View settings, which weren’t working properly. (InDesign CC only)
  • Fixes an import problem where keyboard focus wasn’t being restored to the target document after an import. (The cursor would blink but no typing would show up.)
  • Fixes a limitation introduced in the 2.2.3 release that was preventing the use of anchored container frames in prototypes.
  • Fixes a plug-ins compatibility issue with Windows XP that was introduced by the 2.2.3 release. (InDesign CS5 & CS6 only)

New in InData 2.2.2 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • Fixes a problem introduced in the 2.1 release where the File to Import dialog could inadvertently reset the import’s subfield delimiter even if the dialog’s Format setting isn’t changed
  • Disables the import progress dialog’s Stop button because pressing it can cause InDesign to become unstable. We’ll be looking into this problem for a future release and hope to have it re-enabled soon. (CC & CC 2014 only)

New in InData 2.2.1 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2014. The CC 2014 plug-in is a free update from CC that requires a valid InData CC-level or CC 2014-level (version 9 or 10) license. Please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license from a pre-CC plug-in or to see if you qualify for a free upgrade
  • Adds handy links to the InData menu for internet-based product support
  • Fixes a problem where a plug-in might not find its license code if it’s being used in both the 32-bit and 64-bit InDesign CC applications in Windows. (Windows only)

New in InData 2.2.0 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2014. The CC 2014 plug-in is a free update from CC that requires a valid InData CC-level or CC 2014-level (version 9 or 10) license. Please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license from a pre-CC plug-in or to see if you qualify for a free upgrade.
  • Adds handy links to the InData menu for internet-based product support.
  • Fixes a problem where a plug-in might not find its license code if it’s being used in both the 32-bit and 64-bit InDesign CC applications in Windows.

New in InData 2.1.1 (Mar 12, 2014)

  • Improves compatibility with InDesign’s Smart Text Reflow and Primary Text Frames so that pages are always added prior to auto-updating headers and footers.
  • Fixes a problem introduced in 2.1 where the XPress Tags option in InData > Preferences > General… might not show up.

New in InData 2.1 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Adds support for InDesign CC. The CC plug-in requires a valid InData CC-level license. Please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license or obtain a free upgrade if you purchased InData on or after January 1, 2013.
  • Adds replace(expr1, pattern, expr2), which replaces the first occurrence of pattern in expr1 with expr2.
  • Adds replace(expr1, n, m, expr2), which replaces a range of characters, from n through m, within expr1 with expr2.
  • Adds replaceAll(expr1, pattern, expr2), which replaces all (non-overlapping) occurrences of pattern in expr1 with expr2.
  • Adds offset(pattern, expression, from) variant, which searches for pattern within expression starting at character position from.
  • Adds boxinfo(4), which returns the name (scripting label) of the current box. (You’re welcome to use the alias frameinfo(4), if you prefer InDesign nomenclature.)
  • Adds a Pause and show import speed at end of import checkbox to the General Preferences dialog so that the traditional pause at the end of an import can be disabled. The pause is enabled by default.
  • Re-labels the option that was called I’m an expert user as Suppress warnings when imported text is overset, which better describes what the option actually does.

New in InData 2.0.4 (Aug 14, 2013)

  • Fixes a problem where using a page-based cross-reference format in a prototype would produce a static reference to the current page number in the imported data.
  • Fixes a problem where an import producing permanently overset text in a primary text flow story (with an inline frame too wide for the story’s columns, for example) could cause InDesign to hang and require a forced quit. (CS6 only)

New in InData 2.0.3 (Apr 30, 2013)

  • Adds a non-centering Size to Fit w/o Distortion option to Preferences > General > Default picture position. Also adds aspectratiofitleft for use in prototypes, as in «set picpos to aspectratiofitleft».
  • Fixes a problem introduced in 2.0.2 where .txt files were always disabled in InData’s File to Import dialog. (Mac-only)
  • Fixes a problem where headers/footers on based-on masters were being ignored during header/footer updates.
  • Fixes a problem which was sometimes leaving headers/footers in the wrong position after multiple updates in documents with facing pages. If pages in a facing-pages document have been inserted or deleted, or if a page’s master has otherwise changed, headers and footers from previous imports/updates are now properly replaced with any headers and footers from the page’s new master.

New in InData 2.0.2 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Adds .mer as a valid snapshot file extension to better support FileMaker Pro 12.

New in InData 2.0.1 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Addresses a problem where CS6 wasn’t adding pages for overset text imported into a Primary Text Frame story before InData was attempting to auto-update headers/footers by giving CS6′s autoflow machinery a solid nudge after importing the last record (and before continuing with header/footer updating).
  • Fixes a problem seen in some CS6 layouts where overridden master header/footer frames were being shifted horizontally on the document page.

New in InData 2.0.0 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Adds support for inline text anchors, hyperlinks, and cross-references in a prototype. Any text anchor, hyperlink (on both text and anchored/inline frames), or cross-reference found in the prototype is replicated during data import. If InData finds that one of the following properties references the name of a field or global variable, then that property is changed in the resulting text anchor, hyperlink or cross-reference to the value of the corresponding field or global variable:
  • the name of a text anchor, hyperlink, or cross-reference;
  • a hyperlink’s shared destination name;
  • a hyperlink’s private destination URL; and
  • a cross-reference’s destination text anchor name.
  • The name of a referenced field or global variable may, but is not required to, include enclosing chevrons, like «prod_url».
  • Now, with the hyperlink applied to the prototype, we change its default name from «char 1 to 3 of...partno» to partno so that InData will change each hyperlink’s name to the part number during the import. Note that if the prototype does not produce a hyperlink with a unique name during the import, InDesign automatically appends a number to the name as it’s created in order to make it unique.
  • After the import, each part number in the document has a hyperlink (orange) that connects it to its corresponding product URL, and each product is listed by its part number in the Hyperlinks palette.
  • The steps for creating text anchors and cross-references are similar. Just remember to use the same field or variable name in a cross-reference that is used by the corresponding text anchor. With our sample above, a text anchor named partno could be dropped in front the prototype’s part number. A second prototype might contain a cross-reference to the text anchor named partno, and then be used with the same data snapshot to generate a product list or index.
  • Adds support for the &Y hyperlink family of tags in xpresstagged-styled text.
  • Adds an encoding parameter to the filecontents() function. The filecontents() function has always required that the text file being read be stored as the current OS’s native 8-bit text encoding (either MacRoman in OS X or WinLatin in Windows). UTF-8 was supported too, but required the use of a byte-order-mark (BOM) prefix on the file for it to be read properly.
  • Now, the file’s encoding may be specified as a second parameter to filecontents(), like filecontents(path, encoding)
  • Adds .tab as a valid snapshot file extension to better support FileMaker Pro 12.
  • An import now falls back to the OS’s native 8-bit encoding if Unicode was selected as the import’s encoding but treating the imported text as UTF-8 would cause a decoding error.
  • Fixes a problem which was generating an empty record at the end of a pasteboard-based import.