Before the Release of InDesign
In the summer of 1999,  we gained access to an upcoming product from Adobe. At that time, Adobe had acquired Aldus a few years earlier, with PageMaker included in the package. Some suggest that the acquisition was driven by Aldus having the groundwork for the next generation of layout programs. As a consultant for Adobe in Denmark, we received early access to one of the first alpha/beta versions, known by cryptic names like Shuksan and K2. This marked the start of a journey in developing software for InDesign, with all products aimed at process optimization and addressing natural software gaps. InDesign 1.0 was officially released in November 1999. Continue reading →

Lately, we’ve made some updates to Cacidi BarCodes that may affect your production process. Please read the following carefully.

If your catalog contains barcodes created between November 2011 and November 2018, the barcode color might change from the expected black to paper (or white) when upgrading to the latest version of Cacidi BarCodes (version 19.0.5) for InDesign 2024. Continue reading →

A new series of very short videos is on their way.. We started a week ago with a relative short video 25 minutes showing 3 different AutoCalc function,  last Friday, with a Data Styling video – approx 9 minutes, and next friday we will have a short video about Design Update.. After that video it’s planned to come with new short videos, with a limited, but specific content, once a week. Planned is also a video showing Update Data, including language shift on multiple layers.

Please let us know if you have suggestion for a coming video..

Many users has through the years ask for a search possibility for images used in catalogue production.. our answer has often been that it can take a while, searching through thousand of foldes and thousand of images. Very often, the data itself does not contains the full file name for image or the file path.
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The problem, the missing modification date
The demands InDesign has for images, has always been:
1) Access to the binary data, to be able to display the image.
2) Having information about modification date.
And a basic URL does not contain both these information, a file path does.
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One of the issues when updating a document with Cacidi Extreme, is that products removed or added in the data will not be deleted or removed. Normally the user will need to recreate the document from scratch, with one of the build functions. And if images are manually adjusted, we will loose those adjustments, and to redo them. And thank you Tiffany to point the issue to my attention.. Continue reading →

Now all our plugins are ready for Adobe InDesign 2021

Download the new version from our download page, install it, and the software will automatic copy the old preferences from the previous version.. so easy!.
Remember that it’s posible to keep your old InDesign, until you are comfortable to remove it.. – Use the Auto-Update, Advanced feature to keep the old InDesign version..

READ ALL ABOUT THE NEW FEATURES IN INDESIGN 2021 @CREATIVEPRO.COM

Cacidi Charts 2020 now supports Pantone, custom spot colours and named color swaches
With the new version of Charts, we detect which color are applied to frames, and not just detect the color definition but the name in the swatch list, this means you will get exactly the color you wish.

A pantone or custom spot color will be on the right separation plate, and you will be able to see it using the separation panel.

Download the new version today

Soon you can download and install the new Adobe InDesign 2020, and InDesign Server 2020.. with all the new 2020 features, like column rules and SVG import.

Download the new version from our download page, install it, and the software will automatic copy the old preferences from the previous version.. so easy!.
Remember that it’s posible to keep your old InDesign, until you are comfortable to remove it.. – Use the Auto-Update, Advanced feature to keep the old InDesign version..

Yes, we are ready son you can install the new fantastic Adobe InDesign CC2019. All previous functionality are kept and support for new functions like multi color fonts and Content-Aware Scaling are added!

Download the new version from our download page, install it, and the software will automatic copy the old preferences from the previous version.. so easy!