By: E&P Staff The ability to incorporate Adobe InDesign documents as complete layouts within other InDesign documents, achieved in Adobe's Creative Suite 3 last year, is now also supported by SoftCare in the new "Layout-in-Layout" functionality in update 5.9 of its K4 publishing system.
According to SoftCare Software-Service GmbH, Boenningsted, Germany, and Managing Editor Inc., Jenkintown, Pa., the exclusive distributor of K4 in the Americas, the innovation will benefit newspapers in particular, as a way to concurrently produce regional and complete editions and continue to edit them with K4 after the layouts have been merged.
SoftCare said the function is especially useful in producing and placing ads. When an ad layout is complete, ads can be placed in several positions in the paper using K4.
Version 5.9 comes with the new Content Activator InDesign plug-in, which reactivates the contents of locked frames for further processing -- for example, by freelancers or external printing service providers. SoftCare Content Activator is also available as a free download.
"To make K4 even more user-friendly, we incorporated a lot of suggestions for improvement from our users in version 5.9," SoftCare Product Manager Christian H. Hollstein said in a statement. Things such as pictures, Word files or Excel spreadsheets can now be checked in and out at the same time using K4 File Manager. In addition to the issue-based mode, K4 Admin now enables users to export items, such as layouts, articles or pictures, based on a query. Also, the client's help commands directly access K4 Quick Reference Cards, making it easy for new K4 users to call up the symbol overview at any time.
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