art,website and SEO » Plugin Adobe http://artfantasy.revivalx.com Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:21:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 EasyHistory CS3 http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/09/28/easyhistory-cs3/ http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/2009/09/28/easyhistory-cs3/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:46:28 +0000 admin http://artfantasy.revivalx.com/?p=223 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.

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InDesign has its own styles character , paragraphs and object but WoodWing’s Smart Styles plug –in adds a new dimension to formatting, combining these three kinds of styles to help to quickly format any combination of object and text in one drag and drop. Like any stylesheet system, the secret is in the set-up…

And how easy it is. To create a style you create the element in the layout that you want to feature throughout your publication. Once this is done, convert this into a Smart Styles palette and naming it accordingly. Each style can be used selectively as well. Because styles are are divided into three property groups [object styles, text styles and table styles], you can choose to apply only the part of the part of the style, for example, apply onl y that.

This is a real time-saver and WoodWING has obviously thought long and hard about how the tool can benefit those working on semi-repetitive tasks on day to day basis. High recommended .

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