Typefi Designer 8.7.0 release notes

Note: The most current version is Typefi Designer 8.7.1 (v8.7.1.1179), released on 18 February 2021.

Released 17 April 2020

We're pleased to announce that Typefi Designer 8.7.0 (v8.7.0.1090) is now available. Typefi Designer 8.7.0 adds support for Adobe InDesign 2020, IDML-based roundtripping, and performance improvements.

If you have any feedback or run into any issues, please drop us a line.

Typefi Designer 8.7.0 system requirements

• Microsoft Windows 10 (v1709 or higher); or macOS Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14), or High Sierra (10.13)
• Adobe InDesign 2020 (15.x), InDesign 2019 (14.x), or InDesign 2018 (13.x)
• 2 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)

Key features

InDesign 2020 support

Typefi Designer 8.7.0 adds support for Adobe InDesign 2020 (15.x) and retires support for InDesign 2017 and earlier.

NOTE Requires Adobe InDesign plug-in version 30 or later

For more information about our end of support policies, see Typefi Product Support Lifecycle.

Full IDML support

IDML (InDesign Markup Language) is an XML-based format that fully describes an InDesign document. In addition to using IDML to export Content XML (supported since Typefi Designer 6), Typefi Designer 8.7.0 now supports complete roundtrip of Typefi markup—Typefi Fields, Typefi Frames, Typefi Elements, and Typefi Sections—in addition to AutoFit parent-child relationships, auto-sizing behaviors, and frame size constraints.

NOTE If you open a Typefi IDML document without Typefi Designer installed, InDesign will ignore any Typefi markup (that is, omit it from the InDesign file created by opening the IDML document).

Typefi Designer 8.7’s full support for IDML provides several vital benefits.

Reduced file size

Exporting to IDML is often recommended to reduce the file size from InDesign documents by removing “cruft” (unproductive, wasteful, doesn’t add value, obsolete, redundant). Prior to Typefi Designer 8.7.0, this would also remove all Typefi Field, Frame, Element, and Section markup from the document, which was painful to re-create.

Backward compatibility

You can save Typefi templates for use in previous versions of Adobe InDesign (CC 2018 or later).

Content reuse

You can reuse parts of an IDML document in different ways.

From a graphic design perspective, IDML is the format InDesign uses for library items, InDesign snippets (standalone document fragments), and InCopy assignments and stories. You can now use Typefi Fields, Frames, and Elements, in addition to AutoFit parent-child relationships and maximum frame height and width constraints, to help rapidly assemble templates and documents with Typefi intelligence built-in.

From a development perspective, IDML is a well-documented XML-based architecture. You can now generate or modify IDML documents, with added Typefi markup, using data from databases or other data sources. You can also reuse parts of IDML documents, or break a document into components to use in a development environment.

Content XML 3.2

Typefi Designer 8.7.0 also adds support for Content XML 3.2, which includes:

• Local overrides for paragraph styles and the appearance of tables and table cells
• The ability to use Typefi Fields in Main Story and Element Content text frames
• Improved page numbering support
• Several bug fixes

Other changes

• In previous versions of Typefi Designer, you only had to add Typefi Section Fields to the Typefi Section definition if you were using Typefi Writer as your authoring tool. Now, if you use an XML-only workflow (that is, you are not using Typefi Writer to author content), you must also add each Section Field to the Section. To add a Section Field, open the Typefi Section Options dialogue, click the Fields tab, and select the checkbox next to the Section Field Name. If you do not add a Section Field to a Section, its value will be omitted in the final output.
• Multiple fixes for AutoFit:
  • Fixed an issue where the Balance Columns checkbox was still selected after selecting Clear Attributes or Clear All
  • Fixed an issue (introduced with Typefi Designer 8.6.1) where text frames with strokes were unexpectedly resized if you changed only the height or the width of the frame
  • Fixed an issue where selecting Clear Attributes or Clear All on a text frame caused the minimum/maximum and height/width settings to break

Notices

Every product has a lifecycle. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it is no longer supported.

For more information about our end of support policies, see Typefi Product Support Lifecycle.

Adobe Creative Cloud notices

Adobe updates and adds new features to the Creative Cloud on an ongoing basis. Both because previous versions are uninstalled by default and because Creative Cloud updates may break compatibility with Typefi, we recommend disabling or deselecting both Auto-updates and Remove older versions for Adobe InDesign. For more information, see Update Creative Cloud apps.

In May 2019, Adobe announced changes to Creative Cloud download availability that limited direct download access to the two most recent major versions of Creative Cloud apps. Concurrent with this change, Adobe either recommends or requires your operating system be no earlier than two versions back. For more information, see: InDesign system requirements, InDesign Server system requirements, and Do my Adobe apps work in macOS Catalina 10.15?.