[Em Beta] Xtags for InDesign 3/4.0.2 beta 2 available

[Chris Ryland]

We're happy to announce that Xtags for InDesign 3/4.0.2 beta 2 is now  
available, with the following feature additions and bug fixes:

* Added compatibility with our InData product such that XPress Tags- 
bearing data may now be imported by InData (versions 3.1.3b2 and  
4.1.3b2 or later).

* Fixed a problem where shrinking an anchored frame to fit its  
picture with a tag like <&pb((346,S),(300,S),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"foo.tif") 
 > was giving the contained image a non-zero vertical offset such  
that the top of the image was being cropped. Now the frame is  
properly resized and the vertical offset is left at zero unless  
otherwise specified.

* Shrinking a frame that strokes its path with the [None] swatch to  
its contents no longer leaves a small gap between the picture and the  
right and bottom edges of the frame.

* We've changed the <\!s> tag so that it generates a space with the  
no-break attribute applied rather than injecting a single "hard"  
space character since the latter turned out to be non-justifiable  
(and therefore differed from Xtags for QuarkXPress).

* All flavors of line-ends (DOS, Unix and Mac) are now handled properly.

* Unicode text files may now be imported so long as they begin with  
the appropriate byte order mark (BOM) to signal their Unicode-ness.  
For example, a UTF-8 encoded tagged text file would need to begin  
with the three character sequence 239 187 191 (that's character #239,  
character #187 and character #191).

* Added support for old-style Mac font names (platform font names) in  
order to improve compatibility with tags generated by QuarkXPress or  
previously targeted to QuarkXPress. PostScript font name handling was  
improved as well.

You can download this beta at no charge from

<http://www.emsoftware.com/products/xtags/beta/indesign/>.

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com