InDesignProxy is Soxy’s poor cousin – we won’t be enhancing InDesignProxy any further.

The differences are:
- Soxy supports additional file formats – PDF, Illustrator, (dare I say it) QuarkXPress, ExtendScript.
- With Soxy, there is no need to use the ‘Get Info…’ dialog in the Finder to re-map extension – Soxy does that for you. Soxy is much easier and quicker to reconfigure.
- Soxy has much more better custom icon handling
- Soxy has more configuration options
- Soxy does a great job making ExtendScripts a lot easier to manage.

Try it out; we have a free 20-day demo – and if you find Soxy does not add value for you compared to InDesignProxy, you can simply go back to InDesignProxy.

This might also be of interest: it’s a little movie I made about Soxy and PDF file icons:

http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2009/11/23/soxy-fights-an-army-of-unknown-pdf-files/

The next version of Soxy (upgrades are free), due soon, will also have a new option ‘Always Ask’. When you configure a file format that way, a little selection dialog with all available apps that can open a document will appear each time you double-click such a file’s icon in the Finder.

Cheers,

Kris

The testing objective specifically states, “Create a basic GREP expression for find/change or GREP styles without having to write code.”