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hC HurryCover 2.0 A Book Cover Manager for InDesign CS4 / CS5 / CS6 / CC U s e r M a n ua l hC 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 PASTEBOARD BLEED AND SLUG 34p0 1p3 48p0 2p6 1p3 12p0 50p0 4p6 FLAPS METADATA Title: MARKS AND GUIDES 22p0 Spine/flap marks Description: Crop marks NOTE 22p0 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. AG hC CM IN MM PC PT Update Create NOTE [email protected] Close HurryCover PRO 2.017 Licensed to: [email protected] 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, H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l CI Contact: On master page 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. Keywords: Guides Page details 1p0 My New Jacket Author: 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 1 hC 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! WINDOWS MAC OS X DRAG INTO DRAG INTO RIGHT-CLICK RIGHT-CLICK CLICK H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l CLICK 2 MAIN DIMENSIONS 34p0 1p3 2p6 1p3 50p0 4p6 MAIN DIMENSIONS 4 . Installing an update FLAPS BLEED AND SLUG 48p0 12p0 METADATA PASTEBOARD 6 . Running HurryCover from the Indiscripts menu MARKS AND GUIDES 34p0an update of the product is available, 1p3 If you are notified that simply download the new package from your private link, then marks Spine/flap 22p0 2p6 1p3 unzip and install the file HurryCoverPro.jsx over the previous Crop one, marks i.e. at the same location. 22p0 50p0 Guides 4p6 Page details The new version is instantly functional, and your global settings 1p0 On master page are all preserved. FLAPS MARKS AND GUIDES AG CI CM IN MM PC PT 22p0 Title: hC 16p0 Keywords: You can now run HurryCover going into: METADATA Contact: Indiscripts > HurryCover PRO [email protected] Title: Spine/flap marks Update Once the installation done, switch back to InDesign.Page You details can Licensedisto: [email protected] 1p0 run HurryCover from the Scripts panel as follows: On master page HurryCover PRO 2.016 hC Licensed to: [email protected] in the User folder, 2 ) Look for HurryCoverPro.jsx then double-click on it. H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l Author: Create Description: Close Keywords: Guides 1 ) In InDesign, display the Scripts panel via: AG CI CM IN MM PC PT • Window > Automation > Scripts (CS4), or • Window > Utilities > Scripts (CS5, CS5.5, CS6 or CC). My New Jacket To have HurryCover available in48p0 the InDesign’s menu bar, Author: simply click the Indiscripts-menu button as shown in the below 12p0 Description: screenshot, then close the dialog box. 5 . Running HurryCover from the Scripts panelCrop marks HurryCover PRO 2.017 hC Getting started PASTEBOARD BLEED AND SLUG Contact: [email protected] INDISCRIPTS MENU TURNED OFF CLICK Update Tired of continually digging into the Scripts panel? Make HurryCover available in a dedicated menu! Create Close INDISCRIPTS MENU TURNED ON 3 hC 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. NOTE 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: MAIN DIMENSIONS 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. 2p6 50p0 FLAPS MARKS AND GU Spine/flap 22p0 Crop mark 22p0 Guides Page deta 1p0 AG CI CM On master IN MM PC PT BLEED AND SLUG hC HurryCover PRO 2.017 NOTE 22p0 By default, the marks offset is linked to the bleed. Again, you can unlink these values1p0 by turning off the link button (to the right of the field). hC CI CM IN MM PC PT HurryCover PRO 2.017 Licensed to: [email protected] PASTEBOARD Licensed to: [email protected] 1p3 1p3 4p6 METADATA Title: MARKS AND GUIDES Author: Spine/flap marks Description: Crop marks AG H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l 22p0 BLEED AND S 34p0 50p0 Bleed. 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 Keywords: Guides Page details Contact: On master page Update Create 4 2p6 1p3 50p0 4p6 FLAPS MARKS AND GUIDES Spine/flap marks 22p0 12p0 Getting started Title: Description: Keywords: Guides Page details 1p0 CM Update IN MM PC PT A new InDesign document is then created having the following areas, guides and elements: HurryCover PRO 2.017 hC BACK COVER Close FOLD MARKS (SPINE AND FLAPS) SPINE BACK FLAP Create HurryCover’s guides and marks are placed on a reserved layer, HC_GuidesAndMarks, to let you safely work on your own layer(s). CLICK Licensed to: [email protected] SLUG AREA BLEED AREA TURN-IN CUSTOM CROP MARKS [email protected] FRONT COVER TURN-IN CI Contact: On master page 5 ) Finally, click Create to generate the cover template. AG My New Jacket Author: Crop marks 22p0 hC METADATA FRONT FLAP FOLD GUIDES PAGE DETAILS H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l 5 hC Managing your cover 1 . Adjusting size(s) MAIN DIMENSIONS 34p0 1p3 48p0 2p6 1p3 12p0 1 ) Open an InDesign document that was created with HurryCover. NOTE HurryCover 2.x cannot manage documents built with 50p0 HurryCover 1.x (2007). To make a document compliant with the current product, see AdvancedFLAPS tips and features, §7. 4p6 Spine/flap marks panel, the flaps panel, 3 ) Change any size in the main dimensions1p0 and/or the bleed and slug panel. Page details 16p0 NOTE AG CI Title: Author: Description: Crop marks Keywords: Guides Contact: [email protected] On master page IN MM PC PT Update HurryCover PRO 2.016 CLICK CM hCin theLicensed The Update button is only enabled PRO version. to: [email protected] H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l METADATA MARKS AND GUIDES 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. Create Close 6 hC Managing your cover 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 48p0 34p0 2p6 1p3 12p0 0 3 ) Enter the new width of the spine. CI CM Keywords: Create AG CI CI CM AG hC CI CM IN MM PC PT HurryCover PRO 2.013 Licensed to: [email protected] METADATA Title: Ja REMOVING THE Contact: BACK FLAP Update m Create MARKS AN Spin 22p0 Crop 0 Guid [email protected] 1p0 Create AG CI hC Bo 2p6 FLAPS Keywords: Guides REMOVINGPage THEdetails On master page FRONT FLAP Author: 50p0 Description: Crop marks 16p0 Th Author: Spine/flap marks 0 Title: Contact: Update 4p6 FLAPS 3 ) Choose one or more of the following actions: H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l 12p0 IN MM PC PT PRO 2.017 hC HurryCover Licensed to: [email protected] MARKS AND GUIDES 1p0 the front flap, then enter the new width (‘0’ is allowed). Page details FRONT FLAP 48p0 WIDTH 34p0 On master page 1p3 AG On master METADATA ty Keywords: BLEED PASTEBOARD MAIN DIMENSIONS Guides 1p3 1p0 2p6 2 ) If necessary, unlink the flaps by clicking the link button to the right of the back flap field. icon (or manually select the field) to edit Spine/flap marks BLEED AND SLUG 16p0 34p0 FLAP WIDTH BACK 12p0 Page detai HurryCover PRO 2.017 hC Description: Licensed to: [email protected] Crop marks 22p0 Licensed to: [email protected] MAIN DIMENSIONS IN Close MM PC PT CM MARKS AND GUIDES 50p0 1 ) With your document active in InDesign, run HurryCover. 1p3 [email protected] 1p0 4p6 Update HurryCover PRO 2.017 By the same logic the flaps (front and/or back flap) can be separately added or removed by editing their respective width. 16p0 Contact: FLAPS 3 . Adding / removing flap(s) Crop mark 48p0 Guides 1p3 On master page 50p0 IN MM PC PT MARKS AND GUI PASTEBOARD Spine/flap 22p0 Description: 0 Page details AG My New Jacket Author:AND SLUG BLEED Crop marks 34p0 Guides 1p0 hC • Click the Title: FLAPS MARKS AND GUIDES 22p0 50p0 REMOVING SPINEMETADATA MAIN DIMENSIONS Spine/flap marks 22p0 4 ) Click Update. 4p6 ADDING SPINE FLAPS icon (or manually select the spine field). BLEED AND S 34p0 50p0 1 ) With your document active in InDesign, run HurryCover. PASTEBOARD MAIN DIMENSIONS BLEED AND SLUG CM ClosePC PT IN MM HurryCover PRO 2.013 Licensed to: [email protected] 7 Page On m hC Managing your cover • Click the or anything else), the object keeps its place in the flap—as illusPASTEBOARD trated by the orange rectangle in the figure below. icon (or manually select the field) to edit MAIN DIMENSIONS BLEED AND SLUG the back flap, then enter the new width (‘0’ is allowed). 34p0 1p3 48p0 2p6 1p3 12p0 50p0 4p6 • Click the check box of the flaps panel to globally enable or disable the flaps, as shown below: FLAPS TURNED OFF FLAPS METADATA Title: MARKS AND GUIDES 22p0 Author: Spine/flap marks Description: Crop marks 16p0 Keywords: Guides Page details 1p0 AG hC CI CM When the width of any area is modified, HurryCover repositions the objects in order to maintain the distance to their “reference edge.” Contact: [email protected] UPDATE On master page IN MM PC PT Update Create Close HurryCover PRO 2.013 Licensed to: [email protected] 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/ H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l NOTE 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. 8 hC Managing your cover 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 My Title 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. My Title MAIN DIMENSIONS 34p0 1p3 2p6 1p3 50p0 4p6 The marks and guides panel provides a set FLAPS of check boxes that let you turn on/off custom printer’s marks, guides and page details: 22p0 • Spine/flap marks (also referred 22p0 to as “fold marks”) are custom solid lines added for 1p0 the flaps and spine. They help the printer determine where to fold the paper. hC CI CM IN MM PC PT HurryCover PRO 2.017 Licensed to: [email protected] PASTEBOARD BLEED AND SLUG 6 . Using marks and guides AG H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l When Smart resize is in action, every individual element that fits two vertical edges of the cover is automatically resized on Update. METADATA Title: MARKS AND GUIDES Author: Spine/flap marks Description: Crop marks Keywords: Guides Page details Contact: On master page Update Create 9 hC Managing your cover • Crop marks are basically similar to the InDesign’s built-in NOTE 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 NOTE 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. H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l 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. NOTE 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. 10 hC Managing your cover 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. NOTE 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. PASTEBOARD BLEED AND SLUG 3 ) In the Author field, enter the author’s name, if relevant. This will1p3match “Author” in both InDesign’s File Information and 48p0 Acrobat’s Document Properties. 1p3 12p0 METADATA TURNED ON 4p6 MARKS AND GUIDES Spine/flap marks Crop marks Guides Page details METADATA Title: The New Typography 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. On master page Update Create Close 2.016 scripts.com H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l 11 hC 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”: AG CI CM NOTE 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: MAIN DIMENSIONS IN MM PC PT 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. H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l PASTEBOARD BLEED AND SLUG 123m 1p3 48p0 2p6 between 1 pt and 3685 pt. 1p3 12p0 50p0 4p6 The value must be FLAPS METADATA MARKS AND GUIDES Spine/flap marks 3 . How do I save my global preferences? 22p0 Crop marks 16p0 Guides HurryCover Similarly to how InDesign manages preferences, makes a distinction between application-levelPage anddetails document-level 1p0 On master pagecreated settings. When you are updating a document that was with HurryCover, settings visible in the main dialog match that AG hC CI CM IN MM PC PT HurryCover PRO 2.016 Licensed to: [email protected] Update Title: The New Typog Author: Jan Tschichold Description: Book jacket (v. Keywords: typography, jac Contact: me@indiscripts Create Close 12 MAIN DIMENSIONS PASTEBOARD BLEED AND SLUG 34p0 1p3 48p0 2p6 1p3 12p0 specific document and 50p0 take priority over HurryCover’s default 4p6 settings. In this scenario: button applies settings to the active cover. • The Update FLAPS MARKS AND GUIDES • The Create button applies settings to the newly created Spine/flap marks 22p0 cover (the active cover remains unchanged). Crop marks ignores changes and lets the active • The Close button simply 16p0 Guides cover unchanged. 4 . How do I access advanced settings? METADATA HurryCover features a few preferences, referred to as Theadditional New Typography Title: “advanced Author: settings”, which responsible for the overall funcJan are Tschichold tioning of the program. Book jacket (v. 1.2) Description: Keywords: On master page By contrast, if no document is available (or if the active document is not a valid the main AG cover), CI CMthen IN MM PC PTdialog matches the default settings—i.e. preferences—of HurryCover. In this scenario: is disabled. • The Update button HurryCover PRO 2.016 hC Licensed to: [email protected] applies settings to the newly created doc• The Create button 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. H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l typography, jacket To access advanced settings in HurryCover, click the gear icon [email protected] Contact: at the right side of the Close button: Page details 1p0 hC Advanced tips and features 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 13 hC Advanced tips and features 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. H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l NOTE As a general rule, do not place your own guides on the layer dedicated to HurryCover. 14 hC Advanced tips and features 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. H u r r y C o v e r 2 . 0 M a n ua l 15 hC 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 Bonnard, Eduardo Antunes, Norbert Congard, Philippe Theophanidis, Laurent Grolleau, Colin Flashman, Ulrich Döllken, Ian Mac Pherson. 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