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HurryCover 2.0
A Book Cover Manager
for InDesign CS4 / CS5 / CS6 / CC
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Overview
1 . Description
HurryCover allows you to create perfectly sized book covers or
dust jackets which you can easily re-adjust the dimensions, the
spine, the back and/or front flaps whenever you want. If your
document needs to be updated according to new measurements,
HurryCover automatically moves the layout components the
required distance and ensures that guides and fold marks always
fit the correct dimensions.
MAIN DIMENSIONS
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HurryCover supports usual InDesign measurement units: agates,
ciceros, centimeters, inches, millimeters, picas. You can instantly
switch from one to another. See Advanced tips and features, §2.
In addition, HurryCover lets you edit a set of metadata (title,
author, description, keywords) and add page details in the slug
area—such as finished width, spine thickness or contact name.
This way you can be sure that your client and/or the printer have
all reliable information directly shown in the final export.
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You can download a free tryout version of HurryCover at:
http://ww.indiscripts.com/blog/public/scripts/HurryCoverTry.zip.
It offers most of the features of the PRO release, but it makes
impossible to update a document (the Update button remains
grayed out).
• Mac OS X 10.6 or later,
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3 . TRY vs. PRO version
2 . System requirements
or Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 (x86 or x64 editions).
• 800×600 pixel screen-resolution or greater.
• Adobe InDesign CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6 or CC.
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We strongly encourage you to install and test the TRY version
before you purchase the PRO license of the product. Always
make sure that your system meets the requirements.
The main dialog of
HurryCover has a
very similar lookand-feel in both
Mac OS and Windows
environments. The
following languages are
available (depending on
your InDesign locale):
• English (default)
• French
• German
• Spanish
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Getting started
1 . Before you install
2 ) You see there two main folders: Application and User. Rightclick the User folder and pick “Reveal in Finder.”
HurryCover entirely resides in a single file: HurryCoverPro.jsx.
When you download the file from your private link, however,
it is originally zipped.
3 ) You should now see a Scripts Panel folder. Drag HurryCoverPro.jsx
into there. Congratulations, HurryCover is now installed!
The first step is to unzip the .zip file so you can place
HurryCoverPro.jsx at the desired location (see below).
3 . Installing in Windows
As a precaution before you go on, save your working files and
restart InDesign in a clean session.
2 . Installing in Mac OS X
1 ) In InDesign, open the Scripts panel as follows:
• CS4: Window > Automation > Scripts.
• CS5, CS5.5, CS6 or CC: Window > Utilities > Scripts.
1 ) In InDesign, open the Scripts panel as follows:
• CS4: Window > Automation > Scripts.
• CS5, CS5.5, CS6 or CC: Window > Utilities > Scripts.
2 ) You see there two main folders: Application and User. Rightclick the User folder and pick “Reveal in Explorer.”
3 ) You should now see a Scripts Panel folder. Drag HurryCoverPro.jsx
into there. Congratulations, HurryCover is now installed!
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MAC OS X
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4 . Installing
an update
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6 . Running HurryCover
from the Indiscripts menu
MARKS AND GUIDES
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simply download the new package from your private link,
then marks
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unzip and install the file HurryCoverPro.jsx over the previous
Crop one,
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The new version is instantly
functional, and your global settings
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done,
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in the User folder,
2 ) Look for HurryCoverPro.jsx
then double-click on it.
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1 ) In InDesign,
display the Scripts panel via:
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• Window > Automation > Scripts (CS4), or
• Window > Utilities > Scripts (CS5, CS5.5, CS6 or CC).
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the InDesign’s menu bar,
Author:
simply click the Indiscripts-menu button as shown in the below
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the dialog box.
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PASTEBOARD
BLEED AND SLUG
Contact:
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INDISCRIPTS MENU
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CLICK
Update
Tired of continually
digging into the
Scripts panel?
Make HurryCover
available in a
dedicated menu!
Create
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Getting started
7 . Create your first cover!
• Typically, if you are preparing a standard
dust jacket, the jacket is wrapped around
the case bound book and the turn-in thickness is correlated with the thickness of the
cover material.
• By cons, gatefold soft covers (i. e. “French
flaps”) only require a small adjustment
thickness between the flap and the cover.
Basically, HurryCover allows you to build the complete template
of a book cover, or a dust jacket, with perfectly measured areas
for front and back cover, spine, optional flaps, bleed and slug. In
addition, HurryCover creates all convenient guides, crop and
fold marks which you want to have in your layout.
1 ) Run HurryCover.
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2 ) In the main dimensions panel, type in the dimensions of the
finished width, spine and height:
Finished width.
Cover’s spine.
Height.
Finished width refers to the width of the front cover—which is
also the width of the back cover.
3 ) If necessary, activate the flaps panel by clicking its check box,
then type in the width of the front (resp. back) flap as well as the
turn-in thickness:
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4 ) In the bleed and slug panel, type
34p0in the width
of the bleed area, the crop marks offset, and the
total room of the slug area: 2p6
Offset FLAPS
applied to the marks.
Slug.
Turn-in thickness.
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Front flap’s width.
Back flap’s width.
By default, the front and back flap widths
are linked. However, HurryCover allows you
to unlink these values by turning off the link
button (to the right of the field). This way you
can treat flaps separately. Also, any field of
the FLAPS panel can be individually set to 0
in order to remove the corresponding area.
MAIN DIMENSIONS
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Guides
Page details
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A new InDesign document is then created having the following
areas, guides and elements:
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FOLD MARKS (SPINE AND FLAPS)
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HurryCover’s guides
and marks are placed
on a reserved layer,
HC_GuidesAndMarks,
to let you safely work
on your own layer(s).
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BLEED AREA
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1 . Adjusting size(s)
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1p3
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1 ) Open an InDesign document that was created with HurryCover.
NOTE
HurryCover 2.x cannot manage documents built
with
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the current product, see AdvancedFLAPS
tips and features, §7.
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and/or the bleed and slug panel.
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2 ) Run HurryCover. Note that the dialog 22p0
box then displays the
current dimensions of your document.
4 ) Click Update.
UPDATE
PASTEBOARD
BLEED AND SLUG
SPINE
Proceed as follows:
SPINE
What makes HurryCover really powerful is that you can edit the
specific size of any area of your document after it was created
and laid out. For example, if you need to increase the spine width
of a book jacket due to a “last minute technical adjustment,”
HurryCover will save you from recalculating all the related
measurements. Even better, HurryCover will automatically and
accordingly reposition the elements of your layout to make free
room for the new spine width.
A typical use of
HurryCover is changing
the spine width
of the final jacket
with no effort and
perfect accuracy.
You could resize as
well the finished
width, flaps, etc.
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2 . Adding / removing spine
MAIN DIMENSIONS
HurryCover supports templates with zero-width spine, which
simply means “no spine.” Therefore, you can very easily add or
remove this area by editing the spine field.
2 ) Click the 1p3
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right of the back flap field.
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icon (or manually select the field) to edit
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enter the new width (‘0’ is allowed).
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• Click the check box of the flaps panel to globally enable or
disable the flaps, as shown below:
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any area is modified,
HurryCover repositions
the objects in order
to maintain the
distance to their
“reference edge.”
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4 ) Finally, click Update.
4 . Automatic repositioning
The underlying rule is that HurryCover attempts to preserve the
distance to the most inner edge of the area the object belongs to.
If the object overlaps multiple areas—as illustrated by the gray
rectangle which meets both the front cover and the front flap—
then again the reference edge is assumed the most inner one.
HurryCover has been designed to update your layout the most
accurate way, considering the relationship between the cover
template and the graphic elements of the document.
Suppose you have a rectangle within the bounds of the front flap.
HurryCover will regard that rectangle as owned by the flap and
will try to maintain its position relative to the fold. Thus, if you
resize any area of your template (spine width, front cover, and/
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The above rule only applies to left-sided or right-sided objects. If
an element is located within the book spine area and/or overlaps
the central axis of the cover, then it will remain in place.
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5 . Smart resize
In addition to automatic repositioning, HurryCover can readjust
the width of every individual element (rectangle, oval, triangle,
polygon, text frame…) whose visible bounds fit two vertical edges
of the cover areas.
NOTE
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Smart resize mechanism is enabled by default. You
can disable this feature from the ADVANCED SETTINGS
panel. See Advanced tips and features, §4.
UPDATE
The figure below shows how some simple objects are processed
when their bounds match various reference edges.
In order to prevent unwanted modifications, the Smart resize
feature is restrictive. The following conditions are all required:
• The frame of the object must be very close to each reference
edge, according to a “snap zone” internally set to 0.5 pt.
• The object must be an individual page item (i.e. groups are
ignored).
• The object must belong to a non-locked layer.
NOTE
Automatic repositioning and Smart resize mechanisms also apply to:
• hidden objects,
• objects that belong to an hidden layer,
• individually locked objects.
So only locked layers are globally ignored.
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The marks and guides panel provides a set
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of check boxes that let
you turn on/off custom
printer’s marks, guides and page details:
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marks”) are custom solid lines added for
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the printer
determine where to fold the paper.
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When Smart resize is in
action, every individual
element that fits two
vertical edges of the
cover is automatically
resized on Update.
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• Crop marks are basically similar to the InDesign’s built-in
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crop marks. (They help the printer determine where to trim
the paper.) The benefit of using HurryCover’s crop marks is
that they have the same offset, weight and length as spine/
flap marks. (If you prefer to use InDesign’s crop marks in
the print out, turn off Crop marks in HurryCover and click
Update.)
NOTE
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Fold and crop marks always go outside the page boundary.
The applied offset is specified in the
field,
which by default is linked to the bleed offset
 .
Unlink those fields to specify a different offset. (However, keep in
mind it is not recommended to have marks offset less than bleed.)
Marks’ weight and length can be globally set from the ADVANCED
SETTINGS panel. See Advanced tips and features, §4.
• Guides are InDesign’s guides for spine and flaps.
Depending on your settings, HurryCover automatically
creates guides to delineate each separate area of your cover,
including the “turn-in” between the front (resp. back) cover
and the front (resp. back) flap.
• Page details refers to an information block placed at the
bottom of the page over the bleed area. It brings together all
size details (Flat size, Finished width, Spine, Flaps, Turn-in)
as well as the Contact field (see below Adding/updating metadata) and the last-modified date of the document.
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Both printer’s marks and page details use the [Registration]
swatch. Also, outlines are used for page details so that
no additional font is added in the document.
• On master page (not available in InDesign CS4) tells
HurryCover to place any marks, guides and extras on a
master. This way you can manage multiple variants of your
cover from a single document—since updating the master
will instantly update every child page.
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On master page is disabled in CS4 due to an InDesign
issue related to rotated spread views.
All marks, guides and extras managed by HurryCover are placed
on a separate layer, HC_GuidesAndMarks, which is locked.
Although you can rename this layer to your liking, be
careful not to remove it.
7 . Adding / updating metadata
Metadata is a set of background information about a document,
such as title, description, author name, or keywords applied to it.
This dataset is stored using the XMP standard, which facilitates
the exchange of metadata between applications.
Using well worded metadata helps you streamline your workflow
and organize your documents. When you export your artwork
out of InDesign (PDF, IDML…) the metadata travels with the file.
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This makes it easier for your document to be found and properly
identified. For example, it may be important for your studio—
and/or for your clients—to make visible which designer worked
on a certain document.
4 ) In the Description field, enter a short description or subject. This
will match “Description” in InDesign’s File Information, and
“Subject” in Acrobat’s Document Properties.
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Use the Metadata panel to add (or edit) such background
information:
1 ) If necessary, activate the panel by clicking its check box.
2 ) In the Title field, fill in a title for the document. This will match
“Document Title” in InDesign’s File Information, and “Title” in
Acrobat’s Document Properties.
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3 ) In the Author field, enter the author’s name, if relevant. This
will1p3match “Author” in both InDesign’s
File Information and
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Title:
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Author:
Jan Tschichold
Description:
Book jacket (v. 1.2)
Keywords:
typography, jacket
Contact:
[email protected]
HurryCover does not support multi-line descriptions.
5 ) In the Keywords field, enter a comma-separated list of keywords.
This will match “Keywords” in both InDesign’s File Information
and Acrobat’s Document Properties.
6 ) HurryCover provides an extra field, Contact, which is not an
actual XMP structure and therefore is not stored in metadata.
Use it to make a name, e-mail address, phone number, or any
additional data, visible in the page details block at the bottom
of the page.
8 . Restoring the previous state of the document
If anything goes wrong once you click Update, you can globally undo all modifications processed by HurryCover. Just press
Cmd Z, or go into Edit > Undo HurryCover. The document is
then restored to its previous size and state.
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Advanced tips and features
1 . How do I change the size of the pasteboard?
You can also temporarily override the current unit as you enter a
value. For example, even if the unit block is set to PT (points), you
can type a new value like “4mm” to specify millimeters. In such
case, the field is changed into “11.34pt” as soon as you validate.
To specify how far the pasteboard extends out from the slug
area, simply enter values for Horizontal pasteboard margins and
Vertical pasteboard margins:
Horizontal pasteboard margins. (Disabled in
InDesign CS4.)
Vertical pasteboard margins.
2 . How do I specify units of measure?
Most of the fields in HurryCover require a unit of measure.
By default, all values fit the current horizontal ruler unit set
in InDesign. You can change this at any time in HurryCover
through the “unit block”:
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HurryCover supports most of the notations available in InDesign,
e.g.:
• “1.23i”, “1.23in”, “1.23inches”,
• “123mm”, “12.3cm”, “.123m”,
• “1p6”, “1.5pc”, “1.5pica”, “18pt”, “18points”
• “c6”, “.5ci”, “0.5cicero”
• “12ag”, “12agates”
When a notation cannot be properly parsed, or would result in a
wrong value, a short alert message popups while you are typing:
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Each button switches to a different unit:
• AG to specify Agates
• CI to specify Ciceros
• CM to specify Centimeters
• IN to specify Inches
• MM to specify Millimeters
• PC to specify Picas
• PT to specify Points
When you click a button, HurryCover instantly converts and
displays all values into the selected unit.
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between 1 pt and 3685 pt.
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The value must be
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3 . How do I save
my global preferences?
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ument (the default settings remain unchanged).
• The Close button saves changes as new default settings.
Therefore the easiest way to set your usual preferences is to
proceed as follows:
1 ) In InDesign, close any document window.
2 ) Run HurryCover.
3 ) Enter your preferred settings for future book covers (size, flaps,
options, metadata, etc.).
4 ) Click Close.
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typography, jacket
To access advanced settings in HurryCover, click the gear icon
[email protected]
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at the right side of the Close button:
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Update
Create
GO TO ADVANCED
SETTINGS
Close
The advanced settings panel then shows up. From there you
can both:
• Change the weight and/or the length used for all crop and
fold marks (see Managing your cover, §6);
• Turn on/off Smart resize (see Managing your cover, §5).
ADVANCED SETTINGS
Marks weight:
0.25pt
Marks length:
18pt
ADVANCED
SETTINGS window.
• Click Reset to restore
the defaults.
• Click OK to validate
your choices.
Smart resize
Reset
OK
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5 . How do I deal with recurring works?
When you prepare book covers or jackets for a series, it may be
convenient to establish a template for this series, then to reuse
it as a starting point for each specific document. This way you
don’t have to constantly re-create standard artworks, layout and
contents—e.g. flap structure, backgrounds, shared logos, frames,
barcode area, and so on.
As HurryCover manages InDesign templates as well as regular
documents, it’s easy to streamline such workflow:
1 ) Run HurryCover.
2 ) Enter your preferred settings for the series (size, flaps, options,
metadata, etc.).
3 ) Click Create to generate a fresh preformatted template.
Once you have a prepared template, you can start a new cover
from that template whenever you want:
1 ) In InDesign, go into File > Open.
2 ) Locate and select your template.
3 ) Select Open Normal (Mac OS) or Normal (Windows), then click
Open.
4 ) Run HurryCover, adjust the cover to your needs, then click
Update.
5 ) Save the document with its own name.
6 . Can I add extra guides in my jacket?
You may want to manage additional ruler guides for margins,
hinges, gutters, safety zones, etc. As HurryCover has been
designed to offer a simple and intuitive user interface, we did not
integrate all technical parameters that could be required in your
workflow. However, there is usually no issue in using custom
guides in your document or template. Such guides will just be
repositioned as well as other layout components.
4 ) Feed the template so that it contains the layout of a typical
issue—including layers, grids, guides, placeholder frames, styles,
swatches, graphics, texts, etc.
5 ) Save your document as an InDesign template:
• Go into File > Save As, and specify a location and filename.
• Choose “InDesign CSX Template” for Format (Mac OS) or
Save As Type (Windows), and then click Save.
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NOTE
As a general rule, do not place your own guides
on the layer dedicated to HurryCover.
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7 . How do I make existing documents compliant
with HurryCover?
Since documents which was not originally created from
HurryCover are not supported by the program, you may have
to manually convert old book covers into the new format. Here
are the basic steps involved in this task:
1 ) Open the existing document in InDesign.
7 ) Open the Layers panel. From the flyout menu, select Paste
Remembers Layers.
8 ) Go into Edit > Select All, and copy the selection (Cmd C).
9 ) Activate the destination document.
10 ) Go into Edit > Paste in Place.
2 ) Write down the inner dimensions of the book cover:
• finished width and spine width,
• height,
• bleed and slug,
• flaps and turn-in thickness, if relevant.
3 ) Run HurryCover, then enter all the needed dimensions in the
corresponding fields.
4 ) Click Create.
5 ) In InDesign, go into Window > Arrange > Tile. (So you get both
the source and the destination document visible.)
6 ) Activate the source document. If needed, hide/lock the layers
you don’t want to copy. Also, make sure that all the required
objects are visible and not locked.
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HurryCover
2.0
www.indiscripts.com
A plug-in for Adobe® InDesign® based on Adobe® ExtendScript and ScriptUI. Created
and developed by Marc Autret. Designed by Dominique Chiron and Marc Autret.
User Interface available in English, French, German, Spanish. German localization
provided by Robert Kaltenbrunn. Spanish localization provided by Camilo Umaña.
My very special thanks to Dominique Chiron (doopix.com), Jean-Christophe Courte (urbanbike.com),
Robert Kaltenbrunn (absatzsetzer.de), and Camilo Umaña. I also wish to thank the many people who
have helped improve this product, in particular : Loïc Aigon, Laurent Tournier, Nicolas Pichou, Jean-Marc
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