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Smart Packager

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[Windows][Mac][InDesign]

Package only the pages or sections you actually need. If you don’t know the exact page number, you can simply choose it by appearance — the panel also supports page previews. Create two PDFs at once, for example one for print and another for preview. You can also automatically create a ZIP from the final package or save your favorite output folders for quick access. Smart Packager offers all this and much more.

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Smart Packager
price
7 €

* Prices do not include payment processing fees charged by the Gumroad platform.

What it does

16 features

What it does that native Package cannot

  • Packages only the pages you pick: from a list, by range, by section, the current page or the current spread. Native Package only ever takes the whole document.
  • Your original stays untouched. Everything happens on a working copy.
  • Spreads stay intact. Pages are never reshuffled or joined. If that were about to happen, packaging stops by itself.
  • A PDF from the selected pages only — two of them if you like. Press and proof (_proof), each with its own preset.
  • Placed INDD files are packaged too, each with its own PDF, however deep they nest.
  • A separate package for every spread. A whole leaflet split spread by spread in one click.
  • A ZIP right after packaging, with every file checked before it finishes.
  • A tidy pasteboard. Objects off the pages are removed from the package and left alone in the original.
  • Links checked up front. You see the missing images before packaging starts.
  • Presets for the printer, for design or for the archive, each recalled by a single choice.
  • Favourite destination folders: up to eight, one click each.
  • A smart package name. It is proposed from your selection, and nothing gets overwritten.
  • You see what is going on: the step, the counts and the time. Packaging can be interrupted.
  • A safe ending. An unfinished output is obvious at a glance. The source document is saved and closed only when everything went through without an error.
  • Page previews. You can pick pages by how they look.
  • It packages unsaved edits too. The document is packaged exactly as you have it open.

Changelogv1.4.0

1.4.02026-10-06

Changed

  • Runs on InDesign 18.5 and newer (previously InDesign 2026 only).
  • New plugin ID: com.zalesky.smartpackager. Remove the previous version before installing; settings, trial and license activation start fresh under the new ID.

Fixed

  • Settings: the favorite folders section is readable again; the note and the folder list are no longer squeezed into a thin scrolling strip.

1.3.15

  • First version.