Did a client provide a PDF that requires editing or updating? Do you only have a PDF version of a successful ad you ran and want to rework it for other mediums? What if you could take that PDF and easily turn it into an InDesign file?

PDF2ID does just that! PDF2ID is continuously enhanced with every major release of InDesign for both Mac and Windows platforms. The Plug-in converts PDF and Windows XPS files into fully editable InDesign files allowing PDF and XPS file content recovery and reuse within InDesign.
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Xtags for InDesign or QuarkXPress turns simple tagged text into complete, complex documents. What if you could have a software robot that obeyed a simple tagged text file format (and not some XML monstrosity) to create formatted document contents? And, what if, using this single format, you could produce either Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress documents as needed? Xtags lets you build documents with anchored and unanchored objects, sise the objects to fit the frames (or vice versa), apply master pages or spreads at any point, use macros for brevity and power and translation tables for easy conversion, giving you serious layout power and much more!

In this case study, Mark Jockin, CEO of Pre1 Software in Portland, Oregon explains how Em Software’s Xtags product became a backbone of the Pre1 newspaper software sold to hundreds of publications across the Americas.
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Ever wished you could take data directly from a file or database straight into Adobe InDesign?

Ideal for time-critical publications, EasyCatalog can dramatically speed up page make-up time and ensure your documents remain error free. Trusted by thousands of users in over thirty countries across six continents, EasyCatalog has quickly established itself as one of the most powerful and flexible database publishing solutions for Adobe InDesign.

Farago Design/Barnes & Noble Uses EasyCatalog for Mult-Version Catalogue production
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Strandbygaard Grafisk A/S, a leading Danish print company, invested in Enfocus Connect to streamline PDF transfers from its clients. The software enables the Danish printer to receive PDF files –already preflighted – directly from its clients. The new streamlined workflow reduces communication efforts by 25-40%, saving valuable time and resources and boosting production efficiency significantly.
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David Rager, a designer/art director in Paris who works with a non-profit organisation called The Ecology Centre in California, has been using DocsFlow recently and is quite enthusiastic about the product. See what David had to say about DocsFlow for InDesign.

“I’ve been plugging away with DocsFlow over the last few months and found that it has been a huge time saver. What I love most is that it takes away the trouble I often run into with the conventional edit, proofread, approval, repeat system. My clients are also very happy that they get to interact with a live document and see how their text edits change the way the design looks and feels.”

“Our first “DocsFlow project” came back from press recently, 5 contributors were involved, each updating their own docs and everyone is very pleased with the results.”

Click here to check out their completed project

Bring your online authors and editors into your InDesign production process. Find out more about DocsFlow at the link below.

Implementing effective workflow management is critical for a company if it is to attain — and retain — a sound competitive position. Of course, businesses also want affordable, effective and quality solutions. That’s where Enfocus PitStop Pro Floating Licences come in, offering businesses an efficiency tool designed to simplify the use of PitStop Pro in a multi-user, collaborative work environment. Using the Enfocus Workgroup Manager, managers can control the allocation of all Profiles, Action Lists and Global Changes, distribute those settings throughout a local area network and standardise all workflow throughout a group.

PitStop Pro Floating Licences with the PitStop Workgroup Manager are ideal for environments that require hands-on access to the interactive editing capabilities in PitStop Pro, but may not need every member of staff to have full time access to PitStop Pro.
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InData is a sophisticated data publishing product for use with Adobe InDesign. It automates the formatting of documents containing repeating data units such as catalogues, directories, mailing labels, price lists and schedules, supporting both text and graphics. Formerly, each separate element in such documents had to be formatted by hand.

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).
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Image enhancement solutions have become invaluable to professional photo editing agencies, digital photographers, photo studios, online art galleries, e-book editors and publishers, webmasters and web designers, real estate agents, catalogue publishers, online stores, etc. Manual individual image analysis and enhancement can eat up valuable staff time and can be very costly to perform.

Variations in temperature and lighting are just two of the issues that result in unremarkable picture quality even when shot by professionals. Before photo editing technologies had become well-developed, dozens of photographs had to be discarded to get that one perfect shot.
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Print service providers around the world still claim that up to 50% of the PDFs they receive have serious issues involving colour formats, fonts, bleeds, images and more. According to Adobe, these are the TOP 10 problems when using PDF in graphic arts:

1. The resolution of images is too low.
2. Fonts are not embedded in the PDF.
3. The wrong colour space is used.
4. The information about trim or bleed is incorrect.
5. There is an inconsistency in the native file. The original page, as viewed in InDesign, Word or whatever other application, looks different from the PDF. Hairlines might be different or gradients have changed.
6. A spot colour is misnamed or it is accidentally converted to a process colour.
7. Images are compressed too much. This causes a quality loss and in some cases artefacts appear inside or around the images.
8. The page size is incorrect.
9. There are problems with transparent objects.
10. ICC profiles are missing or incorrect.

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