• 26 Sept 2008
• Tested BusinessCards CE and BookletCE with ID CS4 for the Mac.
• 10 Apr 2008
• BusinessCards CE 1.33: fixed confusing error message about 3.5x2 cards on A4 paper.
• Added StepAndRepeat CE 1.32, which does pretty much the same thing as BusinessCards CE except that it is not targeted at business cards.
• 31 Dec 2007
• BusinessCards CE 1.31w: fixed a Windows bug
• 14 Oct 2007
• BusinessCards CE 1.31: made it compatible with the latest InDesign update, 5.0.1
• 22 Sept 2007
• BookletCE 3.5: Made main dialog able to handle metric units.
• BusinessCards CE 1.3: Made main dialog able to handle metric units.
• 14 Aug 2007
• BookletCE 3.4: Make multiple for Consecutive printing less restrictive
• BusinessCards CE 1.2: Add WithBleed pre-calculated options for A4 and Letter.
• 11 May 2007
• New UI, and progress bar, for Booklet CE for ID CS3
• Ability to run Booklet CE for ID CS3 from the File menu
• 31 March 2007
• Bug fixes
• InDesign CS3 versions

For InDesign CS2 and CS1

Download Booklet CE
Download BusinessCards CE

For InDesign CS3 and CS4

Download Booklet CE For ID CS3 and CS4

Download BusinessCards CE for ID CS3 and CS4

Download StepAndRepeat CE for ID CS3 and CS4

CS1 Install: Change the extension from ".jsx" to ".js". Copy the script into your Adobe InDesign CS/Presets/Scripts/ folder.

CS2 Install: Copy the script into your Adobe InDesign CS2/Presets/Scripts/ folder.

CS3 and CS4 Install: Expand the .dmg or .zip file. Put the .jsxbin or .jsx plug-in in the Scripts Panel folder inside the Scripts folder in your InDesign application folder. (Create the Scripts and Scripts Panel folders if they do not already exist.)
Alternately, put the .jsxbin inside the Scripts Panel folder in your user-preferences folder. Your user-preferences folder is at
Mac OS:~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 5.0 (or 6.0)/Scripts
Windows XP:~\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Adobe
\InDesign\Version 5.0 (or 6.0)\Scripts
where ~ is your system volume and user_name is your user name.

The .jsx plug-in will then appear in the InDesign Scripts palette. Display the InDesign Scripts palette by choosing Window:Automation:Scripts from the InDesign menus.

The plug-ins are written to run on both Mac and Windows, though I haven't done any testing on Windows Vista yet.

Booklet CE

Booklet CE is an InDesign script for rearranging pages in an InDesign document into three different booklet printing orders. It has particularly nice and flexible printer mark options. The pub will generally be designed in facing-pages mode, and can include elements that span 2 pages of a spread.

Booklet CE Features:

• Design the way you want the pub to look, in standard facing pages mode. This script then rearranges the pages in booklet order, to prepare it for printing.
• The publication is copied before being rearranged, leaving the original intact.
• Very flexible printer marks, to handle a wide range of page sizes and printing requirements.
• Auto-page-numbers are converted to static text before rearranging the pages. This includes auto-page-numbers that are on master pages.
• Page items that cross page boundaries in facing pages mode are automatically duplicated before the pages are reassembled in booklet order, saving a very tedious and exacting part of the pre-print process. (The InBook SE plug-in does not do this.)

Limitations and Requirements of Booklet CE:

• It’s pretty slow on "average" machines.
• The source pub should be in standard, facing-pages, designer-type format.
• autoPreviousPage and autoNextPage special characters are not handled properly. (But autoPageNumber is.)
• This routine duplicates “hanging” page items onto the non-owning facing page; It is possible that the duplicated items may obscure something on the facing page that it shouldn’t, and may have to have it’s drawing order adjusted manually (“Send to back”, etc, from the InDesign Object menu.) after the script has run.

Implementation

Booklet CE 3 uses InDesign's PDF Export and Place/Import capabilities to "freeze" the pages and place them in a different order.

The main side effect, which could be a disadvantage in some situations, is that a PDF file is created for every page of the document. This takes up disk space, and the pages need to be kept around until printing is complete.

See the Booklet CE page for a Booklet CE 3 Users Guide.

BusinessCards CE

BusinessCards CE is an InDesign script for duplicating InDesign CS2 business card designs into a multi-column, multi-row document, ready for printing. It has flexible printer mark options specially designed for business card production.

It now has special options for printing on pre-cut sheets of business cards, in both A4 and Letter format.

See the BusinessCards CE page for a User's Guide.

Prior Release Notes

• 17 Sept 06
• Booklet CE 3.1 - Added support for Perfect Bound, Creep, & Gap.
• 4 Sept 06
• Booklet CE 3.0.4 - InDesign CS bug fix; nicer spread information.
• BusinessCards CE 1.0.8 - InDesign CS bug fix.
• 2 Sept 06
• Booklet CE 3.0.3 - faster marks, more bullet-proof
• BusinessCards CE 1.0.7 - more bullet-proof
• 19 Aug 06
• Booklet CE 3.0.2, BusinessCards CE 1.0.6 - fixed color bar problems.
• 13 Aug 06
• Booklet CE 3.0.0 - Almost totally rewritten, using InDesign's PDF Export and Place functionality to make it more bulletproof. Also fixed some printer mark issues.
• 6 Aug 06
• BusinessCards CE 1.0.5 - Explicit control over margins; Made creation of standard business card pre-cut Letter and A4 sheets easier; Non-default ruler origins now work properly; Long-filename handling is more robust.
• 29 July 06
• Booklet CE 2.0.5 - Fixed bug with copying the correct master page items to first page.