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Typefi Designer release notes

Laura Powers
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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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