EasyHistory CS3

There are certain features of certain applications that you wonder how you lived without. For instance , how did anybody survive before the fifth incarnation of Photoshop when the History palette was introduced? That’s an exaggeration of course, but the idea and implementation of History within Photoshop is so intuitive and downright useful, it’s hard to imagine is not being there. And so 64bit software has developed EasyHistory-bringing the same kind of unlimited undo functionally into InDesign( although why the app doesn’t have it natively is a bit of a mystery).

Once installed, bringing up the palette is a simple as going to Window>History (as in Photoshop). And then it really is as straightforward as working away and using the palette to double click a ‘state’ that you want to jump backwards or forwards to. Snapshots or previews of the spread are generated either automatically by saving, or manually by hitting the button at the bottom of the palette. This gives you a clue to what the document looked like at the state. You can turn snapshots off in the plug –in’s preferences if you wish.

For around $15, you don’t expect much, but with EasyHistory you get a solid addition to InDesign, which keeps track of every operation performed on a document in chronological order- and which, in truth, should already be included.