From cpr at emsoftware.com Tue Jan 1 17:17:47 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Tue Jan 1 17:27:54 2008 Subject: [Em General] InCatalog 4-5.2.5 beta 1 for InDesign CS2/CS3 Message-ID: <2096474C-3B30-4AD3-932D-6394773EC7E5@emsoftware.com> Well, it's mighty late in December, the 32nd, to be exact, but we're very happy to announce that InCatalog is now available for InDesign CS3 (as well as CS2--we're dropping support for CS). Please visit for details, and please send us feedback, positive or negative. Thank you and (might as well admit it:) Happy New Year. ;-) Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Tue Apr 1 14:47:29 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Tue Apr 1 15:03:11 2008 Subject: [Em General] InData, InCatalog, and Xtags for InDesign CS3 released Message-ID: <2B9C54FA-220B-433C-8A44-AFD9551532BF@emsoftware.com> Dear folks-- It's been a long, long time since we started down this road, but today, officially, all our plugins for InDesign are released, and support both InDesign CS2 and CS3--and, no, this isn't an April Fools joke. InData 4/5, InCatalog 4/5, and Xtags for InDesign 4/5 are now available from their respective download pages: Thank you for your business, and thank you for your patience with us. Keeping up with both "motherships" is challenging for a small company like ours, given 3 major products on two motherships on two platforms and the product improvements we've been adding (we only have 2 engineers (Chris Roueche and John Whitney); I only play an engineer on TV ;-). However, instead of asking forgiveness after the fact, we're now going to be aggressive about getting new releases out as close as possible to the official mothership releases. (As evidence of our good faith, we're already testing some of our QuarkXPress 8 XTensions in- house, well ahead of the latter's release.) To celebrate the CS3 releases and to reward your patience, we're offering a 10% discount across the board on our online store for the next month, using the checkout coupon code "cs3release" (expires May 1, 2008). You can use this coupon both for plugin upgrades and new licenses, but please don't spread it around-- this is just a way of saying "thank you" to our faithful customers on these announcement lists. Speaking of upgrades, if you've already paid for one of our plug-ins within the past 12 months, your upgrade will be free (heck, if it's 12 months and 19 days, we're not going to quibble). Just email sales@emsoftware.com with the details of your previous order, and we'll send you back your new-style serial. (These new products require new serial numbers.) We're also working on upgraded manuals for InData and InCatalog, to be available in the next few weeks. Xtags already has a greatly-upgraded manual with this release. Believe it or not, Em Software is now in its 18th year in business. That's gotta be some kind of record for a small software business like ours, but we're just thankful to be here and hope we can continue to be of service to you! Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From announce at emsoftware.com Thu Jun 19 04:33:52 2008 From: announce at emsoftware.com (Angelica Jeffries) Date: Thu Jun 19 04:33:59 2008 Subject: [Em General] Dear announce@emsoftware.com Savings ...3 Days Only Message-ID: <20080619071325.4536.qmail@fw.permlink.ru> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emsoftware.com/pipermail/announce/attachments/20080619/b9d13828/attachment.html From cpr at emsoftware.com Fri Aug 15 14:07:54 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Fri Aug 15 14:10:26 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xtags 8.x beta now available Message-ID: <6C2E3BE2-BE14-4B19-9CFB-12DDDF4DBAC6@emsoftware.com> We're happy to announce that Xtags 8.3.2 beta 11 (continuing in a serious of previous 6/7 betas) is now available, along with the corresponding 6/7 versions: . We'll be releasing the first Xdata 8.x beta early next week, and the Xcatalog 8.x beta a little later. (We have more work to do on the latter.) As ever, your feedback, positive or negative, is greatly appreciated! (Please send to support@emsoftware.com, as usual.) Thanks & Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Tue Aug 19 12:26:57 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Tue Aug 19 12:29:43 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xdata 8 beta now available Message-ID: <9AEC5CE4-1DB4-4CD8-86B7-A2149FAD74A6@emsoftware.com> We're happy to announce that Xdata 8.3.1 beta 13 (continuing a serious of previous 6/7.3.1 betas) is now available, along with the corresponding 6/7 versions: . As ever, your feedback, positive or negative, is greatly appreciated! (Please send to support@emsoftware.com, as usual.) Thanks & Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Wed Sep 3 14:15:00 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Wed Sep 3 14:18:50 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xcatalog 8.3.1 beta 4 (first 8.x beta) now available Message-ID: <9FD88BC4-F396-421E-8F4B-6C73BAD4C6C6@emsoftware.com> We're happy to announce that Xcatalog 8.3.1 beta 4, the first XPress- capable 8.x beta, is now available from . Please see the release notes there for details. The main addition is 8.x support, but we've also revamped its UI for 8.x, and now support palette sets (that first appeared in XPress 7-- yes, we're late ;-). Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Thu Sep 4 13:07:49 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Thu Sep 4 13:11:41 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xtags 8.3.2 released Message-ID: <244C9BAD-5FA1-451D-9F3E-8A73B0343E63@emsoftware.com> We're very happy to announce that Xtags 8.3.2 is now officially released and available for download (6 & 7.3.2 as well): . This is a free upgrade (what were we thinking!?! ;-) if you're already using the latest Xtags 6 or 7. You can simply install the new version and keep working--you're not even prompted for a new serial number. (We tried to make it as painless as possible.) Otherwise, you can upgrade at our usual great discount (62.5% off the full-product price): . The history page gives all the details, but here are some highlights of the release: * QuarkXPress 8.x support (as well as 6.x and 7.x) * Massive (10X) speed-up when importing unanchored boxes (almost back to XPress 4.x speeds! ;-) * Box background blend support * Rotation, skew, runaround and various flags supported in "version 2" anchored boxes (&tb2, &pb2, &nb2) * Support for shrinking-to-fit text boxes horizontally as well as vertically, and for shrinking-to-fit multiple column text boxes * Support for box background and frame opacity settings (7 or 8 only) * New "none" box creation tag * and dozens more smaller enhancements and bug fixes Cheers! --Chris Ryland / President / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Wed Sep 10 15:03:54 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Wed Sep 10 15:08:11 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xdata 6/7/8.4 released Message-ID: <9C34EA79-67C7-4641-886A-FAC7CDB2478B@emsoftware.com> We're very happy to announce that Xdata 6/7/8.4 is now available from our web site with full QuarkXPress 8.x support, and with some major new, long- awaited features, including * tables, including auto-fitting; * anchored text boxes, including auto-fitting in various ways; * background blends in anchored boxes (text and picture); * new format() function that provides powerful Excel-like number formatting; * per-import preference settings and more. We're also surprised to announce that this is a free upgrade from Xdata 7. If you already have a serial number of the form starting "ED...", then you can download this version of Xdata and use it without even re-entering your serial. Otherwise, you can upgrade to this latest version via our online store, at , for 63% off the full retail price. It's been a while since we've added serious new features to Xdata, and we're hope you're pleased with the results! Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Fri Sep 19 13:22:42 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Fri Sep 19 13:27:33 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xcatalog 6/7/8.3.1 released Message-ID: <9734C635-76A2-43C7-88E1-AA83CE7B6943@emsoftware.com> We're happy to say that Xcatalog 6/7/8.3.1 is now officially released and can be downloaded from: and the change history (minor changes only, other than 8.x support) viewed at: . This completes our QuarkXPress 8 upgrade cycle, with Xtags 8.x and Xdata 8.x already shipping. We're also happy to announce that this is a free upgrade if you already have an up-to-date 6/7 serial for Xcatalog, so download away! Otherwise, you can buy the upgrade from our online store at: . We almost made our commitment to get the 8.x upgrades out within 30 days (I think it was 35 days ;-) of the QuarkXPress 8.0 release. So we're getting better at keeping up with Quark! Thanks for your continued support and interest. Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Fri Nov 21 19:58:45 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Fri Nov 21 19:58:47 2008 Subject: [Em General] Xtags for InDesign, InData, InCatalog, InFlow updates Message-ID: Just a note to let you know we've released a whole set of plug-in updates to address some common problems (e.g., with Vista registration), and add some minor features. In particular, we've finally laid to rest one incredibly annoying problem with InData (the dreaded [P1] You can't change character styles error). And, we've fixed some long-standing problems with bold/italic font toggling tags in Xtags, and added full layer support. Xtags for InDesign 4-5.1.1 InData 4-5.1.3.3 InCatalog (Pro) 4-5.2.5.2 InFlow 4-5.2.0.2 Use them in good health & Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com From cpr at emsoftware.com Fri Dec 5 10:05:13 2008 From: cpr at emsoftware.com (Chris Ryland) Date: Fri Dec 5 10:05:17 2008 Subject: [Em General] InDesign CS4 betas of all our plug-ins Message-ID: <8D3973B3-EE4D-4F51-946A-24688B2DD8A6@emsoftware.com> We're happy to announce that we have released InDesign CS4 betas of all our plug-ins (packaged for all of CS2/CS3/CS4), which can be found as: InData: http://emsoftware.com/products/indata/beta InCatalog: http://emsoftware.com/products/incatalog/beta Xtags: http://emsoftware.com/products/xtags/beta/indesign InFlow: http://emsoftware.com/products/inflow/beta These betas should be fairly stable, because the programming interface changes in CS4 were minimal (for our needs). So we expect a short beta period. These beta releases will honor up-to-date serial numbers (CS2/CS3) so you can just download, install, and go. The final CS4 release of each will require a new CS4 serial number. If you've bought or upgraded to the CS2/CS3 versions in the past year, your upgrade will be free. Otherwise, you can purchase an upgrade at 63% off the retail price. If you upgrade from an older version now (before the beta is finished), you have our standard year's upgrade protection, so your CS4 serial will not cost you anything. We'd love to get your feedback on these betas. Please email support@emsoftware.com with any questions or problems. Thanks for all the help over the years & Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com