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Typefi Designer release notes

Toni Gonzales
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Typefi is committed to continually improving Typefi Designer by resolving bugs and implementing new features. In this article, you’ll find our latest Typefi Designer release notes. Please contact us if you have any feedback or run into any issues. We’re happy to help.

Adobe InDesign support

Typefi supports Adobe InDesign releases on a rolling, three major version schedule, meaning Typefi Designer 8.10 now supports:

  • InDesign 2023 (v18)
  • InDesign 2022 (v17)
  • InDesign 2021 (v16.3 or later)

If you are running InDesign 16.2 or earlier, you must use Typefi Designer 8.7.1 or earlier; otherwise, InDesign will not open. For more information about our end-of-support policies, see Typefi Product Support Lifecycle.

System requirements: Typefi Designer system requirements

Typefi Designer 8.10

Released 22 March 2023

The Typefi Designer 8.10 release fixes a regression in Typefi Designer 8.9 where Typefi Designer may ignore soft styles, like italics, regardless of your Create InDesign document/book → Advanced → Soft Styles settings. 

The Designer 8.9 regression only affects Typefi Workgroup and Desktop installations. While there are no material differences between Typefi Designer 8.9 and 8.10, this update will ensure you aren't missing italics or other soft styles in your output.

We recommend Typefi Desktop users update to Typefi Designer 8.10 and Typefi Workgroup users update to Typefi Designer Server 8.10 at your earliest convenience.

The Designer 8.9 regression does not affect Typefi Designer customers using Typefi Cloud.

Known issue

Adobe InDesign 2023 (v18.0 or later), when used as a composition engine for Typefi Desktop, may experience a rare crash when closing documents at the end of a job. Currently, we do not recommend using InDesign 2023 with Typefi Desktop. Instead, we recommend using InDesign 2022 (v17) or InDesign 2021 (v16.3 or later). We've filed a bug report with Adobe and will update Typefi Designer known issues when they respond. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Typefi Designer 8.9

Released 17 January 2023

Take advantage of the latest release of Adobe InDesign.

Typefi Designer 8.9 adds support for Adobe InDesign 2023 (v18), which was released on 18 October 2022.

New! Smart Guides help make AutoFit relationships easier.

  • Smart Guides help you create AutoFit relationships by snap-aligning to the anchor point of the target frame. Now, while you define the child anchor, you will see a dashed line that is the same colour as the layer colour from the parent anchor to the mouse pointer. If the mouse pointer intersects with the geometric bounds of another object, then the object is highlighted using the object's layer colour. If the mouse pointer is within the snapping tolerance of an anchor point, the dashed line snaps to the anchor point. You can specify the snapping tolerance by setting the AutoFit Preferences. Smart Guides are on by default.

Watch AutoFit Smart Guides in Action!

 

    Improvements

    • Added additional menu items to the About plug-ins panel in Designer and AutoFit.
      • What’s new goes to the latest Designer or AutoFit release notes.
      • Help, Guides & Tutorials goes to the Typefi Design or Working with Typefi AutoFit section in our help centre for step-by-step guides.
      • Report a bug goes to the submit a support request form.

    Fixes

    • Fixed several issues related to scripting:
      • Fixed a bug where doc.typefiFieldInstances.length returned the wrong number of Typefi Fields in a document. It now returns the correct number of Typefi Fields.
      • Fixed a bug where app.documents[0].typefiFieldInstances.everyItem().getElements()[0].constructor.name incorrectly returned TypefiElementInstance, instead of TypefiFieldInstance.
      • Fixed a bug where typefiFieldInstance.remove() did not update the text in the InDesign document.
      • Fixed a bug where the index property typefiFieldInstances returned an error instead of the field's instance index. Now, app.documents[0].typefiFieldInstances[0].index correctly returns the field instance's index.
    • Fixes for AutoFit relationships:
      • Fixed the orientation of AutoFit anchors to display the top-right and top-left parent-child relationship.
      • Fixed an issue that caused InDesign to crash when creating an AutoFit relationship outside the existing frames.
    • Fixed a known issue where copying an auto-sizing text frame caused InDesign shut down if Pastebot was enabled.
    • Fixed an issue where the Adobe Arabic Bold and Adobe Arabic Italic fonts were not being applied.
    • The macOS uninstaller no longer presents you with the message: "Not authorised to send Apple events to Finder." Now, you can successfully uninstall Typefi products.

     

    Typefi Designer 8.7.3

    Released 11 March 2022

    InDesign 2022 support

    Typefi Designer 8.7.3 adds support for Adobe InDesign 2022 (17.x).

    Typefi Designer 8.7.3 only supports InDesign 16.3 or later. If you use InDesign 16.2 or earlier, you must use Typefi Designer 8.7.1 or earlier, otherwise InDesign will not open.

    macOS Monterey compatibility

    Typefi Designer 8.7.3 adds compatibility with macOS Monterey (12.x) and retires compatibility with macOS Mojave (10.14).

    Improvements

    • Typefi Designer plug-ins are now installed in the Plug-ins/Typefi/Designer folder.

    Known issues

    • Saving a Typefi-ready template (.indd) as IDML does not retain the Section and Element Fields used in the Section or Element. You must manually add the Fields back to their corresponding Section or Element. (Open the Typefi Section or Element Options panel, click the Fields tab and select the Fields.) We apologise for the inconvenience and will provide an update in an upcoming release.
    • Typefi AutoFit relationships disappear. In InDesign 16.2 or earlier, Typefi AutoFit relationships disappear when running a job. The workaround is to group the AutoFit parent-child elements or upgrade to InDesign 16.3 or later. For more information, see Typefi Autofit relationships disappear.

    Typefi Designer 8.7.2

    Released 9 September 2021

    Native Apple processor support

    Typefi Designer 8.7.2 now runs in native mode on Apple computers using the Apple silicon M1 chip, for faster performance than earlier generation systems.

    Improved security

    The macOS installer for Typefi Designer 8.7.2 is signed and notarized. Now, when you install Typefi Designer, you will no longer see this Gatekeeper warning:

    "TypefiDesigner.pkg" can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information.

    Gatekeeper is an Apple technology that performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer's signing certificate is revoked.

    For more information, see Safely open apps on your Mac.

    Known issues

    • Saving a Typefi-ready template (.indd) as IDML does not retain the Section and Element Fields used in the Section or Element. You must manually add the Fields back to their corresponding Section or Element. (Open the Typefi Section or Element Options panel, click the Fields tab and select the Fields.) We apologise for the inconvenience and will provide an update in an upcoming release.
    • Typefi AutoFit relationships disappear. In InDesign 16.2 or earlier, Typefi AutoFit relationships disappear when running a job. The workaround is to group the AutoFit parent-child elements or upgrade to InDesign 16.3 or later. For more information, see Typefi Autofit relationships disappear.

    Typefi Designer 8.7.1

    Released 18 February 2021

    InDesign 2021 support

    Typefi Designer 8.7.1 adds support for Adobe InDesign 2021 (16.0–16.2) and retires support for InDesign 2018 and earlier.

    Please wait to upgrade to InDesign 16.3 until we release a compatible version of Typefi Designer. If you've already upgraded to InDesign 16.3, install the previous version of InDesign (InDesign 16.2) instead.

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

    macOS Big Sur compatibility

    Typefi Designer 8.7.1 adds compatibility with macOS Big Sur (11.0) and retires compatibility with High Sierra (10.13).

    Typefi Designer 8.7.0

    Released 17 April 2020

    InDesign 2020 support

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

    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.

    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

    Improvements

    • 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

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