PDF Bee

For outputting single page PDFs from InDesign. Use a watched folder on a network server. Unattended operation for hours. PDF, Postscript, or Distilled output.
Geared for Prepress Pros, by a PrePress Pro.
DEMO version below. Mac OS X 10.4+.
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ID Image Catalog

Create an InDesign document of a catalog of all images in a folder. Use your document presets, adjust the number of frames per page. Easy post-creation customization with global style sheets. Beautiful contact sheets with the power of InDesign. Mac OS X 10.4+.
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ID Font Catalog

Create the easiest to see and use catalog of all your fonts. Grouped by font family, a catalog is made with each style listed in a smaller display. The ONLY font catalog app to group by family. Several beautiful templates to choose from in addition to the regular Single Line and Waterfall samples. Mac OS X 10.4+.
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Custom Scripting

Chris can work with you on to develop a solution to your Mac workflow needs. Specializing in InDesign and Adobe apps, plus FileMaker. We can develop solutions using Applescript and Cocoa.

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PDF Bee 3.2: Single Page PDF Creator - $90

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PDF Bee outputs your InDesign documents, with each page Postscripted or PDF'd as its own page. You can choose to process one file at a time, or turn on the Automatic setting and watch a folder for any InDesign files dropped into it.

How It Works:

PDF Bee watches a folder that you designate. Any file you drop in the watched folder is opened, checked for image links and fonts, and begins processing. Postscript files are saved, and then processed with Distiller into PDFs, using the job options you specify. The output files will be named with the page numbers after the document name, such as "outputfile_001.pdf". If you include a font folder with the ID file, fonts will automatically be opened before each file is processed.

Your document can have non-sequential pages, and the file names will be output using the individual page's names. For example, the pages could be 1, 5, 18, 29, 101, 102, 109. The output PDFs will be named with _001, _005, _018, etc.

You can also process 1 file at a time (without watching a folder), and use the same options of PS/PDF, PS, or PDF.

You can have multiple PDF Bees running on multiple computers, all watching a single job folder, for processing large amounts of files in parallel.

Features:

  • Choose any Distiller setting you create, on a local or network drive
  • Create any Print Setting to print the Postscript files
  • Use any InDesign PDF export setting
  • Ability to output your choice of:
    • ONLY Postscript files, OR
    • export directly from InDesign, OR
    • the traditional Postscript > Distilled PDFs.
  • Option to redirect the output files to another folder, useful for sending to a Pitstop checking folder or other workflow functions.
  • Option to 'reverse' file naming for Agfa workflows, with page number first and file name after that (ie 001_MyDocument.pdf).
  • A log file (text file) is created when using the Automatic mode.
  • PDF Bee handles files over 1000 pages.
  • Font activation no longer requires Extensis Suitcase, and is optional!
  • Universal for Intel and PPC Macs!
  • NEW! PDF Bee recognizes and respects section prefixes in a document. (Such as "Section1:" then page number "4", output as "MyDocument_Section1_004.pdf"). The use of section naming can be turned on or off, depending if you want the file name to include the prefix or not in the file name.
  • NEW! PDF Bee remembers your settings for Print/Distill/PDF, and font enabling, reverse naming, and section prefix file naming.

Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.5x -10.6x
  • Adobe InDesign CS3 - CS4
  • Adobe Acrobat Distiller 8 (CS3) - 9 (CS4)
PDF Bee Version 2, for CS2/ Acrobat 7/ OSX 10.3, is still available. By paying for PDF Bee v3 you will also be allowed to download version 2.

PDF Bee 2 requires Extensis Suitcase for font activation. It also can not handle section prefixes in the document & page names. It is not Universal.


Watch the demonstration video here,
Size 700x525, about 18 minutes, 120mb. Quicktime 7 is required.
Download the DEMO version. Limited to 4 successfully processed documents and 3 pages each.

Click for full size interface image

Some companies using PDF Bee:
  • Best Buy, electronics retailer
  • EO, Netherlands Public Broadcasting
  • Argosy Publishing, educational textbooks
  • Gloor Media, Germany
  • Landwirtschaftsverlag Publishing, Germany
  • Consolidated Communications, telecom
  • Rock Communications, printing
  • Egmont Magasiner, Denmark
Full version $90
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Current version: v3.22, July 7, 2008

 

ID Image Catalog v3.3 - $20

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This application will create a page(s) in InDesign with frames and titles of all the images in a folder. Once you select a folder, the application tells InDesign to make a document with the number of image frames per page you specify, places the files, and creates a text frame with the image information below it.

New options allow you to make document presets in InDesign and select one to use to make your catalog. By selecting a document preset with no page margins, no image title and no image desciptions and 1 box per page, you can create a document with 1 image per page.

Features

  • Creates a catalog automatically in InDesign
  • Scales up, down, and centers images in the frame
  • Includes the name of the image under each image
  • Can include the full file path of the image, and the size it is placed at
  • Sub-folders inside your main folder selection can be scanned and added
  • Use one of your InDesign document presets for the page size and margins
  • Option to disable page title and image title text frames
  • Customizable margins between image frames
  • Option to disable outlines around image and text frames
  • Large text frame option for long file name or file path information
  • Option to hyperlink to folder (for exporting as PDF)
  • Now Universal for PPC and Intel Macs
  • Updated for Mac OS X 10.5 (v3.30) fixing several bugs

Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.5x - 10.6x
  • Adobe InDesign CS3 - CS4

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Sample Catalog (click to enlarge)

See the FAQ/Troubleshooting page. No there is no Windows version. Ever.

Current version: 3.30, June 23, 2008

 

InDesign Font Catalog v2.1 - $15 NEW VERSION

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Have you ever wanted a really compact font sample for your collection of fonts? Tired of wading through hundreds of pages of samples generated by programs that can't group all fonts of a family together? ID Font Catalog is for you! IDFC uses Adobe InDesign to intelligently get the list of fonts available and creates a sample of each font family, but only of the primary font style, and makes a smaller listing of the other styles like text-bold, italic, compressed, etc!

ID Font Catalog is THE ONLY font catalog program available (that I know of) that groups fonts in their family. Every other commercial or free solution creates a new page for every style! ID Font Catalog groups fonts by their family. Look at smarter font samples, not more!

Features:

  • NEW Completely rewritten for better speed & reliability
  • Creates a font sample for each font family
  • Lists the styles of each font family in that style (ie, text-bold is text-bold, italic is italic)
  • Creates a "Single Paragraph" style listing, fitting from 3 to 15 or more fonts on a page, including every style of the font
  • Creates a "Waterfall" style listing with a paragraph of text, the font styles, and sample font sentence in sizes from 8 to 72pt.
  • NEW 3 new template styles, with new layouts for more font sample options
  • Automatically creates bookmarks and page numbers in InDesign so when exported to a PDF, specific fonts can be searched even more quickly.
  • Ability to skip non-Roman and Apple "system" fonts and the other most common system fonts
  • NEW User definable Font Skip List
  • NEW Import/ Export/ Append a Font Skip List using a simple text file
  • Option to create page titles & page numbers
  • Customizable character samples & sample sentences (ie, The quick brown fox, or Cozy lummox, simple ABC & abc, or your own sentence or string of letters)
  • 240 Pangrams (sentence using all 26 characters of the alphabet) built in
  • Control over look and style with applied Paragraph Styles
  • Changed No longer makes page numbers with partial font names, easier to print now
  • IDFC does not load or activate fonts, it only catalogs them. It is not a font manager.
  • Universal application for Intel and PPC Macs

SNOW LEOPARD - OS X 10.6 USERS -The new system font "MENLO ITALIC" will cause a bug in making a font catalog. Please add "Menlo" to your skip list in order to have a correct looking catalog. If left in the catalog, single page catalogs will be blank after the Menlo font. The Italic face has some tracking problems and uses up all the available horizontal space in the box.

Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.5x - 10.6x
  • Adobe InDesign CS3 - CS4
A sample of the font catalog styles IDFC creates. Notice each font name is listed only 1 time, with each style listed below Click here to see the user interface of ID Font Catalog

Single Paragraph Style
Waterfall Style
Template Style 1 Template Style 2
Template Style 3

 

You may want to check out Extensis's document on OS X font management practices:
http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/SC/EN/P/Fonts_Best_Practices_in_OSX.pdf

Current version: 2.10, July 28 2009

 

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Photographer's Contact Sheet For Photoshop

 

Photographer's Contact Sheet, including multi line captions, has been released as a free program. If you are looking for this, please see this site: http://ps-scripts.sourceforge.net/ContactSheetX/csx.html

April 28, 2009

 

Free Scripts

Accurate Size Of Folder -drag and drop a folder to get a more accurate file size calculation, useful for burning CD/DVD becase the Finder info is hard to calculate and Toast (5/6)now doesn't give an accurate size to the megabyte.

File Type And Creator Changers -drag and drop files onto these scripts to set the file type and creators information in OS X. Many files in X rely solely on the file extension, but sometimes its helpful to set them, such as changing .jpgs to Photoshop .jpgs so a double click opens Photoshop instead of Preview.

Send BCCs -this script is for use with MS Entourage. You select a variety of email messages, then run this. This script then makes a new outgoing email with the BCC field populated by the messages you had selected. It's an easy way to send private emails out to everyone you received an email from. I use it for sending messages to everyone who's purchased a script. It's easier than trying to manage a group, plus you can be more selective.

PDF Combiner -this Applescript will combine all PDFs in a chosen folder into one file. It can combine pages that are of different sizes.


I am selling these scripts "as is" and take no responsibility for any data loss, corruptions, or system difficulty you may have. I will make every effort to ensure these applications' functionality as stated but cannot guarantee operability on all computers and any specific configuration. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE INDESIGN OR ANY OTHER REQUIRED PROGRAM DO NOT PURCHASE THESE ITEMS THEN REQUEST A REFUND. Since I can't know for sure if you are an ID user/owner, I can't offer refunds for these reasons.These apps are for Mac OS X operating system only, and will NOT work on Windows. Email questions and concerns to: cpav -at- ptd.net