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Adobe® InDesign Extension

With our free extension for Adobe InDesign you can define the editing rules directly in the layout. This allows you to define exactly which frames can be edited and how.

With the help of our InDesign extension, extensive editing rules can be easily and quickly anchored in the layout. Text, image and table frames can be assigned rules that define whether the frame can be edited, moved, scaled or deleted.

Installation

You can easily download and install the extension from the Adobe Exchange Store.

Adobe Exchange

Start extension

After the installation you will find the extension in your InDesign under Window > Extensions > ID4Y.cloud.

Set rules

The editing rules are marked at frame level and include text, picture and table frames. Choose the frame to be marked and select the desired rules in the ID4y.cloud control panel. The tags can be changed or removed at any time. A button (X) behind the label is available for removal.

Frames on master pages cannot be edited. All frames that can be edited by editors must be on normal pages.

Tag text frames

To mark a text frame, highlight the frame and then select the desired rules in the ID4Y.cloud panel.

All texts with editing rules should be marked with clean paragraph and character styles, manual styles assignments are lost during editing.

Alternatively, the styles can be created automatically in the test result.

Title Unique name of the text frame
Frame
Move Allows moving the text frame
Delete Allows deleting the text frame
Scale Allows scaling the text frame
Automatic height Height of text frame automatically adjusts to content
Content
Edit text Allows editing the text in the frame
Restriction styles All paragraph and character styles available in the document are offered without restriction
– Only applied styles Only styles used in the frame are offered
– No styles selection No styles are offered
Tag tables

To mark a table, choose the frame and select the desired rules in the ID4Y.cloud control panel.

For technical reasons, it is necessary to place tables in a separate text frame with its own editing rules. If required, tables can run as anchored frames in the continuous text.

Title Unique name of the table
Frame
Move Allows moving the table
Delete Allows deleting the table
Scale Allows scaling the table
Automatic height Height of the frame automatically adjusts to the table
Content
Edit text Allows editing the text in the table
Edit table cells Allows editing individual cells of the table
Only applied styles Only paragraph and character styles used in the frame are offered
Tag table cells

To mark single or multiple cells, highlight the cell(s) and then select the desired rules in the ID4Y.cloud panel.

For technical reasons, it is necessary to place tables in a separate text frame with its own editing rules.

Title Unique name of the cell
Content
Edit text Allows editing the text in the table
Only applied styles Only paragraph and character styles used in the frame are offered
Tag picture frames

To mark a picture frame, highlight the frame and then select the desired rules in the ID4Y.cloud panel.

Title Unique name of the picture frame
Frame
Move Allows moving the picture frame
Delete Allows deleting the picture frame
Scale Allows scaling the picture frame
Content
Upload image Allows to upload an image
Change image section Allows you to change the image section,
cannot be combined with “Fitting”
Fitting Automatic content fitting,
cannot be combined with “Change image section”
– Center content Centers the image in the frame
– Fit frame to content Adjusts the frame to the content
– Fit content to frame Adjusts the content to the frame
– Fit content proportionally Adjusts the content proportionally
– Fill frame proportionally Fills the frame proportionally
Minimal resolution Allows to check the minimum resolution (value in DPI)
Tag anchored frames

To mark anchored frames, highlight the frame and then select the desired rules in the ID4Y.cloud panel. The rules are defined according to the type of frame.

Anchored frames must be separately provided with editing rules, if they can be edited by the editor. These include rectangular frames, ellipse frames, polygon frames, frames (free), text on path, text frames and tables.

Automatic tagging

While you determine the editing rules for individual frames when marking manually, you can mark all text frames in a single pass with automatic tagging. You can define the rules yourself.

You have to choose between all text frames or only the frames that are on visible layers. Select the desired option in the ID4Y.cloud control panel and store your rules. Confirm with Save and the automatic tagging will be executed directly. A counter is added to the name and increased accordingly (starting with 0).

If you want to remove rules, you can also do this automatically. You have the option to delete all frame tags of the document or only those on visible layers. You can also find the functions in the ID4Y.cloud control panel.