Commercial extensions

So last week I posted a blog and this week something else came up that I decided to share which I thought would be useful if you are using InDesign to typeset long books or documents.

About ten days ago I was working on a project and was very frustrated. My chapter-by-chapter footnote numbering depended on creating a new InDesign section at each chapter opening. For ten chapters that was mildly irritating; for a much larger book, it became tedious.

I had tried to get a script written to do this, but it never quite worked the way I wanted, so I had given up on the idea...

I’m not sure what prompted me to look again, but I discovered a useful script called Mastermatic. Funnily enough, although I didn’t know the site, I knew of the owner.

However, as nice as this script is, it didn’t really solve my problem. Yes, now I could apply master pages according to the content which would definitely save me time, but it didn’t solve the problem that I had to start with.

So I decided to use a little chutzpa and complain that the script didn’t have a completely different feature I wanted. The response: “Yep, we have a different script that does that, called Sections Stuff.”

Who knew!

Well needless to say I am the proud owner of two new scripts in my arsenal which will hopefully speed up my work, and more importantly for my clients, mitigate mistakes.

Using both commercial and custom scripts is something that my business relies on. It allows for faster turnaround and more importantly, more accurate results.

If you have a book that needs typesetting, then please feel free to get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.