Comments on: Free Layout Zones Add-On is Incredible Productivity Tool

By: Jongware

Jongware — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:24:45 +0000

Wil, the idea is that the selected objects are saved as a new file, so someone else can work on that one.
InDesign itself does not support opening the same file on two different systems at the same time.

By: wil

wil — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:03:39 +0000

Call me an InDesign neophyte but I can’t determine from the comments if two people can work on the same InDesign document at the same time.

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Creating Shared Layouts (Composition Zone) in InDesign | InDesignSecrets — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:59:45 +0000

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By: Jongware

Jongware — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:54:05 +0000

Sami: if you are using CS5 (or newer), that's a built-in function: Live Caption. It's pretty annoying to ask random questions in an otherwise totally unrelated blog post. Next time please use the Forum.

By: sami

sami — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:01:42 +0000

Is there a script that can take the name information from an image link and place it on a page with the image automatically?

By: Jan Bendix

Jan Bendix — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:43:08 +0000

First time I’m using Layoutzone in ID4. No problem to assing zone, but when I tried to convert zone, InDesign got the error: Stopped working.
Can anyone help me?

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:57:14 +0000

I need the “Layout Zone” for German Indesign CS3. Can you help? Thank you.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:14:54 +0000

Glad you like the script, Colin! I liked it so much that I added it to the default scripts that ship with the Blatner Tools plug-ins. (Of course, in BT, Layout Zone shows up in the Extras menu, not the Edit menu.)

Yes, LZ has been updated to work with CS4.

@Nelson: LayoutZone is very different than InCopy. InCopy is all about editing text. LZ actually takes chunks of the page and turns them into other InDesign pages. InCopy would be best for working with editors; LZ is better if you need to hand off a part of a page or spread to a designer.

By: colin flashman

colin flashman — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:58:40 +0000

how have i used indesign for so long and not seen this script? this script is the gun! my only comment would be to be able to choose a folder where the indd files are saved, rather than always going back to my desktop. yes, i can create a shortcut to my working folder, but i like my idea better

besides that, this is one tip-top script!