Open Documents Manager

Changed

• ·**The panel asks InDesign far less.** Its once-a-second check now asks each open document for two things - its id and whether it is unsaved - instead of its windows, pages, name and path every time, and walks the document list once instead of three times. Whether a document has a window and how many pages it has are remembered for a few seconds. With several plugins installed at once this is what keeps InDesign steady.
• ·**Nothing is asked while InDesign has a dialog up or a command in progress** - its own Save changes? on a close, Place, Export, a progress bar. The check skips that second entirely; so do page previews, document checks and the watchdog's save.
• ·**A document that is being closed is left alone**, and a document that has only just appeared is not asked for its path, metadata or size until the list has stood still for two seconds.
• ·**The watchdog never auto-saves the document you are working in**, only the ones left unsaved in other tabs.
• ·**A hidden panel does not poll at all** - collapsed to its icon or behind another tab, it asks InDesign nothing until it is shown again.
• ·The File menu item is put in six seconds after the panel starts, once InDesign has finished restoring documents, rather than in the middle of it.

Fixed

• ·**The panel stops asking InDesign about its documents when InDesign quits.** Its regular check went on while InDesign was shutting down; it now stops the moment the panel is closed, and the diagnostic log notes that the run ended.

Changed

• ·**Only the box under the chosen option can be typed into.** Pages to export opens only with **Range**. Under *Where files go*, the folder name opens only with A folder beside the document, and the folder and its Browse only with One fixed folder. In Settings, the suffix opens only with Add a suffix. What is in a closed box is kept for when you come back to it.
• ·**A switched-off field looks switched off**, the way InDesign's own dialogs show one: the box takes the window's colour with a hairline edge, and its words fade.
• ·**The licence key box is wide enough for a whole key.**

Fixed

• ·**Every text box takes the colours of the InDesign theme.** In the light themes, File name in the Export window and the minute boxes in Settings stayed dark in a white window.
• ·**A blank button in the corner of the Licence window is gone.** It appeared once the full version was activated, and did nothing.
• ·**A licence key clicked into and out of again stays whole.** It showed only its last dozen characters until Home walked it back.

Added

• ·**Spreads, for every format at once.** One tick above the tabs in the Export window, beside All pages and Range: JPG and PNG write one image per spread, and a PDF is exported as spreads. With **Create Separate PDF Files** ticked as well, each spread is one PDF. A spread is named after its first page. It replaces the separate Spreads ticks on the JPG and PNG tabs; a setting or a saved preset from before keeps its spreads.
• ·**Size in a PDF's file name.** The PDF tab offers *size* under its File name box, as JPG and PNG do, because one document can carry pages of different sizes. With Create Separate PDF Files each PDF is named by its own page's size - `letak_03_210x297mm.pdf`; one PDF of a whole range takes the size of its first page.

Changed

• ·**All pages, Range and Spreads stand on one line**, the way InDesign's own export dialog has them.
• ·The PDF option for one file per page is called **Create Separate PDF Files**, as it is in File > Export.
• ·**The Export window lines up.** Text boxes and dropdowns start on one edge and side by side on one line; *Preset* and *File name* start level with each other; a box under its radio button sits close under it; a radio button's words sit close to the circle. **Save settings** and **Delete saved** stand on the left of the bottom row, apart from Cancel and Export - and Open folder in Settings does the same.
• ·The manuals and a tooltip no longer promise keys that do not reach the panel in InDesign, and say that a tab in the Export window is clicked.

Fixed

• ·**A spread exported one file per page came out twice.** With spreads on, every page of a spread was exported as that whole spread, so pages 2 and 3 wrote the same spread twice and the second copy got a clash suffix. Each spread is now one file.
• ·**Unticking Create Separate PDF Files takes `_{page}` back out of the file name.** Ticking it put `_{page}` in; unticking it used to leave it there.

Added

• ·**A diagnostic log**, for the fault nobody can reproduce on purpose: InDesign going down, or going slow, while nobody is touching the panel. It is a plain text file in the plugin's data folder, and it records what the panel is about to ask InDesign **before** it asks - so if InDesign stops answering, the last line names what it was in the middle of. The run before is kept beside it, and every new run says at the top whether the previous one ended cleanly. **Open diagnostic log** in the panel menu; a switch in Settings. It writes nothing on an idle second - a heartbeat every half minute and a line for each real piece of work - and it stays reachable with no licence key.
• ·**What the file will be called, under every File name box** in the Export window. A pattern is not a name, and nobody can read `{name}_{page}` and say what comes out of it. The line is worked out for the document you are about to export - its real name and its real page size - by the same rules the export uses, so the two cannot disagree. A format that writes one file per page shows the series, `letak_01.jpg, letak_02.jpg, ...`, and with **Overwrite files that are already there** off a second line shows what the suffix from Settings would make of a name that is already taken. It updates as you type and as you tick the words under the box.
• ·**Saved export settings can be deleted.** Pick one in *Saved settings* and press **Delete saved** at the bottom left; the button turns into *Click to confirm*, and a second click within four seconds deletes it. The boxes keep its values until you change them, so one deleted by mistake can be saved again on the spot.

Changed

• ·**The Export window reads across instead of down, and nothing in it has to be scrolled.** Each format's tab is two columns - on the left how that format is written (the preset, the resolution, the colour, the ticks), on the right what the files are called and where they go - and moving between formats is a click on its tab. What is true of every format - which pages, overwriting, one folder chosen now, opening the folder at the end - sits above the tabs, and *Saved settings* and *Save these settings as* stand side by side at the top. The window opens at 790 × 760, and the columns keep their width in a window dragged wider and narrow with one dragged smaller.
• ·**Save settings answers on itself**: the button shows **✓ Saved** for a moment, and the new name is in *Saved settings* straight away, already picked. Delete saved answers the same way. Nothing is written into the form any more, so the window no longer jumps when you use them.
• ·*Saved settings* is in the Export window even before anything has been saved, so the first save has somewhere to appear.

Fixed

• ·**Saved export settings could be lost by pressing Cancel.** The Export window opened with *Saved settings* on the name used last, while every box below it was filled from the last export rather than from that preset. Save a new set, press Cancel, open the window again - and it read as though nothing had been saved; pressing Export then wrote the old values back over the preset. The window now opens showing the settings its dropdown names.
• ·**Windows opened too small for their own contents** - the Export window asked for its size and opened at 560 wide, with its right-hand column cut off at the frame. When InDesign did not say how big the screen is, every window was capped at 560 × 520. A window now opens at the size it asks for.
• ·The **Browse** button beside a folder box is inside the window on every tab; on JPG and PNG it was pushed out past the edge.
• ·The buttons along the bottom of a window no longer move sideways the first time the mouse goes over them.
• ·An open dropdown no longer hides the fields beside it - it took every field at the same height out of the window, including the whole right-hand column.

Changed

• ·**The trial is now a free key from Gumroad, and its 14 days run from when that key was bought.** The old trial counted from the first time the panel opened on this machine, which meant the date sat on the customer's own disk - and deleting the plugin's data folder started it again. The date now comes out of Gumroad's own answer (`sale_timestamp`), so a reinstall of InDesign, a new computer or a cleared data folder gives back **what is left** of the fortnight rather than a new one. Typing the same key in over and over changes nothing.
• ·The trial key costs nothing: its Gumroad product is priced at zero. **Get the free 14-day trial** in the licence window opens that page, and the key arrives in the receipt.
• ·**One box takes both keys.** The key is checked against the paid product first and the free trial product second, so nobody has to know which kind they are holding. Both checks carry `increment_uses_count=false`, and both refuse a purchase that has been refunded, charged back or disputed.
• ·**A panel with no key behaves exactly like one whose trial has run out**, and says so. There is no longer any state that unlocks the plugin without a key having been through Gumroad.
• ·A machine that has never been given a key opens the licence window by itself, once, so the first thing a new customer sees is that a fortnight of it is free.
• ·**Activate answers in the licence window instead of closing it.** A purchase is thanked for with a sentence there, shown once, rather than in a pop-up on top of the window.
• ·A running trial needs no internet at all: its last day is already known and the panel counts it down itself. A full licence is unchanged - 30 days offline from the last successful check, re-checked about once a day. Gumroad being out of reach never ends either one.
• ·The manuals no longer promise that the keys **1** to **9** switch document. They do not arrive in this host, so the promise is gone rather than qualified.

Fixed

• ·The trial could be restarted by deleting the plugin's data folder. It cannot any more, which is the whole reason for this release.

Added

• ·**A 14-day trial, and a licence key.** The trial and the full version are the same plugin - one .ccx that can sit on the web as a free download, with nothing to send a customer and no second build to keep in step. The panel counts the days down at the bottom right.
• ·**Licence...** in the panel menu: where you stand, the box to paste a key into and **Buy the full version**. It is reachable after the trial has ended, and with no document open - a window you cannot get to is a plugin nobody can buy.
• ·The key is verified with Gumroad itself, for this product only. There is no server of ours in the way and therefore nothing of ours to go down, and the same key activates your other computers - no second purchase, no file to carry across.
• ·An activated licence keeps working **offline for 30 days** from the last successful check, and is re-checked about once a day. The panel speaks up only when that window is nearly out. No internet is never treated as an invalid key: nothing is taken away, it says it could not ask and tries again in about an hour.
• ·When the trial is over the panel waits for a key: the licence window and the manual are the only two things still open, and every other command, button, menu item and keyboard shortcut opens the licence window instead and says so. The buttons dim. The list goes on being drawn, with the filter, the sorting and the column widths, so you can still see what you have open - a panel that paints nothing reads as one that has broken rather than one waiting to be paid for.
• ·The gate is a list of what is free rather than a list of what is paid for, so a command added later is shut until somebody says otherwise. The three ways into a command that do not go through the command table - the double click on a row, the pin beside it and a digit on the keyboard - ask for themselves.
• ·**Trial and licence** is a section of both manuals, and three more entries under *When something goes wrong*.

Changed

• ·A key is checked against the product id first and, if that says it has never heard of it, once more against the permalink from the product's own URL. Gumroad takes either, the two look nothing alike, and this turns getting them the wrong way round in a build into one slow activation rather than a plugin nobody can turn on.

Changed

• ·The Export window reads in the order the answers are given: which saved settings, then what every format shares - the pages - then the formats themselves, and last what happens when it runs. The page choice used to sit at the bottom, below the tabs.
• ·The **Name suffix** box is gone. Anything of your own goes into that format's own file name instead - {name}_print_{page} - which is one place rather than two, and you can see where it lands. Patterns saved with {suffix} still work: the word expands to nothing and the separator left hanging goes with it.
• ·The row of ticks under a file name says what it is for: tick a word to put it in, never type the brackets yourself - with an example of what comes out underneath.

Added

• ·**Export each page as its own PDF** - a tick on the PDF tab, the same way JPG and PNG are written. {page} goes into the file name the moment it is ticked, so the pages cannot overwrite each other; the export puts it there even if the box was emptied by hand.

Fixed

• ·The buttons at the bottom of a window are kept in sight more stubbornly. The window is measured after it opens to see whether the footer really was pinned, and 80 ms was not always long enough for this host to have laid it out - a perfectly good window was being sent back to one long scrolling page. It now asks four times over a second and a half, and if the best way is not to be had it gives the content a height in pixels instead, which still keeps the buttons where they are.
• ·**Objects could go missing from an exported file.** Rare, random, and only on heavy documents - a logo gone from one print PDF, a price tag from another, with everything still in the InDesign file and twenty manual File > Export runs in a row coming out clean. The panel kept working while the export ran: it polls every 750 ms, and a poll reads every document, can make a page preview - which is a JPEG export - and lets the watchdog save. InDesign was being asked to export a PDF while it was also exporting a JPEG of another document and saving a third. The page preview also silences InDesign for its own length, so anything InDesign wanted to say about the export in flight was answered for it without anyone seeing it.
• ·Now nothing in the panel touches InDesign while a job the user asked for is running: the poll stands still, page previews and document checks refuse to start and stop if they were already walking, and the watchdog does not save. A job waits for whatever the panel had started on its own before it begins, and a second Export or Package while one is running says so instead of running on top of it.
• ·An export that reports success but leaves no file behind is listed as a failure with the path it should have written, rather than counted as done.

Fixed

• ·The progress box shows while a heavy document is being exported. It was written and then the export was started in the same breath, so the panel only drew it when the export was over - which is the moment it is taken down again. Exporting twenty pages of one document now says which page it is on, and a one-document export no longer leaves the bar sitting at nought.

Changed

• ·The Export window opens on the saved settings you used last, so the usual export is the window opening on the answer it had last time. Picking a different one, running one from the panel menu, or saving settings under a name all set which one that is.
• ·The buttons at the bottom of every window - Cancel, Export, Save, Save settings - stay where they are while the content scrolls. A long window used to be one long page, so the buttons went off the bottom and had to be scrolled back to.
• ·Dragging a window taller gives the room to the content: the part that scrolls grows with the window and the buttons stay on its bottom edge. Before, the window grew and nothing in it moved.

Added

• ·The panel hangs itself off InDesign's own File menu: **File > Open Documents Manager**, directly under Open Recent, and clicking it brings the panel up. It is put there every time InDesign starts - a menu item like this does not survive InDesign closing, and the plugin loads with InDesign - so there is nothing to install and nothing to switch on. The same door ZAFLO Recent Files uses.

Added

• ·Export writes JPG, PNG and IDML as well as PDF, and several of them in one run. The formats are tabs in the Export window: tick the ones you want, each with its own folder, its own file name and - for JPG and PNG - its own resolution, quality, colour, anti-aliasing, bleed and spreads.
• ·File names are yours to shape, per format, and a row of ticks under the box puts the words into the pattern: {name}, {suffix}, {page}, {dimensions} (the page size, 210x297mm), {date}, {time}, {format} and {preset}. Nothing has to be typed or remembered, and a tick shows what is in the pattern whether it was ticked or typed. Images are written one file per page, which is why {page} and {dimensions} exist, and page numbers come out as 01, 02, 03.
• ·Fill these in for: Web preview (96 ppi, RGB) or Print (300 ppi, with bleed) sets the image boxes in one go. They stay open to be changed.
• ·Export settings can be saved under a name - Proof, To print - and appear in the panel menu, where they export in one click with no window. Save settings, at the bottom left of the Export window, keeps them without exporting anything; Saved settings at the top fills the window back in from one of them.
• ·Export again repeats the last export without asking, and says what it was: Alt on the Export button does the same.

Changed

• ·The Folder column shows as much of the path as it has room for: one folder while it is narrow, its parent as well when it is wider, the whole path when it is wide. A job where every document sits in a folder called week_39 used to fill that column with the same word five times over.
• ·Columns resize the way the grid in ZAFLO Merge does. The divider between two headings is the thing you take hold of, it thickens into the accent colour under the pointer, and dragging it right widens that column - the divider follows the mouse. Every column has one, Folder included; what takes the space they leave is an empty column after them, so the list never has to scroll sideways - which matters here, because this host puts a sideways scroll back to nought on every repaint. A column can be dragged as wide as the panel can hold: to go wider, narrow another one first.
• ·Pressing the same divider twice fits the column to the longest thing in it, the way a spreadsheet does. Every cell in the column is briefly let go of and measured at the width its own text wants, because asking a cell that ends in an ellipsis how wide it is answers "about as wide as I already am".
• ·Dragging a column no longer flickers. The list is rebuilt every 750 ms to keep up with InDesign, and a rebuild in the middle of a drag put the old width back - so the columns snapped to where they started and jumped forward again on the next mouse move, for as long as the mouse was held down. Nothing repaints the list while a column is being dragged.
• ·A column being dragged is redrawn once a frame rather than once a mouse move, so wide lists keep up with the pointer.
• ·The Export PDF button, menu item and right-click item are now Export.
• ·Settings keeps what is true of every export - what to do about a name already in the folder, and whether to open the folder afterwards. Folders, file names and image settings live in the Export window, beside the format they belong to.
• ·The file names start plain: {name} for PDF and IDML, {name}_{page} for JPG and PNG. Whatever is typed in Name suffix is added after the document's name even when the pattern does not mention {suffix}, so the box works on the plain patterns too; writing {suffix} into a pattern still says where it should go instead.
• ·A word put into a pattern by its tick brings one underscore with it, and only when there is not one there already: nothing comes out as name__01.
• ·A page number in a file name is two digits, so ten pages sort as ten pages rather than 1, 10, 2. A page in a section keeps the name the Pages panel gives it, A-3 or iv.
• ·Every box in a window keeps its width when the cursor lands in it. At a width given as a percentage this host laid a focused field out again and came back with another number, so the boxes jumped as they were clicked into.
• ·A window fills the window it is in, however it is dragged, instead of leaving a band of nothing under the buttons.
• ·A dropdown is the width of the boxes around it, open or shut. It used to run the width of the window and shrink the moment it was clicked.
• ·The tabs in the Export window stand still when a format is ticked: the tick has a place of its own on the tab rather than pushing the name along, and the tab that is open is marked by a line under it instead of a box that changes its size.
• ·Save settings stands a button's gap from Cancel, the same gap Cancel stands from Export.

Fixed

• ·An empty Name suffix is empty. It was read as the clash suffix pattern and handed back a lone underscore, so an image came out as leaflet__3 rather than leaflet_3.
• ·An export whose file name would write every document - or every page - to the same file says so instead of running. A file name left empty puts that format's default back rather than naming everything alike.

Added

• ·Open Set and Save Set show which documents are in the set you pick, so a name a week old no longer has to be remembered.
• ·Save set is in the right-click menu, not only in the panel menu.
• ·The Save Set window opens with the cursor in the name box and lists the sets you already have, so one of them can be written over.
• ·Opening a set asks what to do with the documents already open: save and close them, close them without saving, or leave them alone. It used to be one checkbox that did not say whether closing meant saving.

Changed

• ·Every window is laid out to one rhythm: checkboxes and radio buttons stand on the same column at the same height, rows are closer together, and settings that belong together - All pages and Range - stand together instead of an inch apart.
• ·A hint under a checkbox starts under the words it explains rather than under the box.
• ·Browse stands next to the folder field instead of at the far end of the row.
• ·Text fields and dropdowns follow the width of the window instead of stopping in the middle of it.
• ·Settings puts Open folder in the bottom left corner of the window, level with Cancel and Save.
• ·Radio buttons are InDesign's own: the native control at the size Adobe draws it, filled in the panel's accent colour, with the label centred beside it and the whole row clickable.
• ·An open dropdown covers the form instead of pushing it down, so the window stays the height it was and the buttons stay where they were, however many presets or sets the list holds.

Fixed

• ·Minutes between checks cannot be set to a negative number. The spinner refused one; typing one did not.
• ·Settings opens in front of the panel. It read the data folder from disk before opening, and a window opened after that read rather than straight from the click came up behind the panel.
• ·A window dragged taller uses the whole of the height. It used to keep the height it opened with and show an empty band under the content — most visible in Settings.
• ·Every window that asks for something puts the cursor in its first field. It looked for a class no field carries, so no window ever had a cursor waiting.

Added

• ·Export PDF lets you choose All pages or a page range. The range applies to every selected document, and a document that does not have those pages is listed at the end with the reason.
• ·Export PDF has a Name suffix field: whatever you type is added to the end of every PDF name in that export, for example document_print.pdf. {date} and {time} work there too.
• ·Export PDF has an Overwrite checkbox, for the times when replacing the PDFs already there is what you want. It starts from the Settings choice and applies to that one export.

Changed

• ·The list shows the most recently opened document first, the way File > Open Recent reads. The document you just opened goes to the top and becomes number 1; the others keep their places, and switching between documents never reorders the list.
• ·Pinned documents stay at the top of the list, whatever it is sorted by. A document you open afterwards goes underneath them.
• ·With several documents selected, Go to Page is left out of the right-click menu. Sync Page is the command for more than one.
• ·The panel and the manual speak of documents in general rather than leaflets.

Fixed

• ·Snapshot, Export PDF and Package work in folders whose names contain a space, an accent or a #, on Windows and the Mac. A folder such as "ZAFLO Merge" failed with "Could not find an entry", and a PDF already in such a folder was not noticed, so it could be overwritten instead of getting a suffix.
• ·The preset list in Export PDF is no longer covered by the page range and name suffix fields below it.
• ·Sync Page leaves you in the document you started in. It used to leave you in the last document it visited; Reveal for several documents had the same problem.
• ·Go to Page and Sync Page put the cursor in the page field, so the page can be typed straight away.
• ·Exporting saved and never-saved documents together no longer sends every PDF to the folder picked for the never-saved ones. The Export PDF dialog says that never-saved documents ask where their PDFs go.
• ·Dialogs no longer leave an empty band above their buttons. Export PDF fits in its window without scrolling.
• ·Export PDF exports the pages you chose. It used to take the page range last set in File > Export, so after exporting page 2 of one document by hand, every document exported from the panel came out as page 2 only. Your File > Export setting is left as it was.
• ·The progress box during an export no longer covers the filter field.
• ·Documents InDesign keeps open in the background no longer appear in the list. Updating the link to a placed InDesign file used to add that file to the panel as if you had opened it.
• ·Making page previews no longer changes your own JPEG export settings. The panel used to leave File > Export > JPEG at 72 ppi, low quality and the first page only.
• ·Page previews and the watchdog's auto-save wait a few seconds after InDesign starts, and never open a dialog while they work in the background.

• ·First release.