The Goal of client version 5.70
This should be a small release to enhance the first releases of both Automated Production and Cross Domain Page Cloning. It also address some issues encountered by sites using some unique workflows.
Most importantly, it ads a stellar new feature to automatically export images for toning immediately after placement.
5.70.00-07 Released 2024.04.24
Page Numbering Resolving Corrected) There was an internal problem with the resolution of the page number. Multiple things triggered it, but the most recognized part was Ad Statuses which could fail to open. This has been corrected. INDESIGN-4267
5.70.00-05 Released 2024.04.23
macOS User Data Folder Redirection) We have one macOS site that has some odd configuration that prevents Adobe InDesign from having access to the workstation’s User Data folder. This in turn was causing a silent warning in the log. We’ve worked around this situation without our ability to directly test their unique configuration. INDESIGN-4268
5.70.00-04 Released 2024.04.09
Template Master Style Improvements) The Template Master BLOX Total CMS > Development > Add Components… function now has the option to add the Snippet Label Components consisting of the Layer, and the Object and Paragraph Styles used by our UXP-based plug-in to export snippets with labels on the pages. Spawn Template will no longer allow the user to choose as a default layer the Snippet Labels layer added with our UXP-based plug-in for snippet export. INDESIGN-4249
5.70.00-03 Released 2024.04.09
New Approach for working around Adobe InDesign/macOS incompatibility) Rather than opening and closing a document to allow certain older versions of Adobe InDesign to work with the macOS menus, we now just create and close an untitled document. This removes the need for the osWorkaround documents. In addition, from testing it appears that once macOS has reached version 13.5 the issue is solved, so we’ll no longer do either action. INDESIGN-4246
5.70.00-02 Released 2024.04.08
Internal Change to log failures of Adobe InDesign to Activate documents) We had a report from a site with an unsupported version of Adobe InDesign. It would occasionally fail to activate documents after opening which was a requirement to run the Ad Statuses functionality. Unfortunately, the logging of the actions couldn’t explain the failure. So we’ve added additional logging. INDESIGN-4118
Cross Domain Clone Improvement) The Cross Domain Clone Page Sharing functionality will now check for assets on pages before continuing. If no assets exist then the cloning Request will not be initiated. If no assets have been properly replicated to the destination domain, the Complete process will not be initiated. INDESIGN-4231
You can find out more about Cross Domain Page Sharing at this link:
This document outlines the basic use of Cross Domain Clone which was added to the BLOX Total CMS client for Adobe InDesign with version 5.69 in February of 2024.
Distributed Production Override adinfo Change) We had one of our many Distributed Production sites file a support ticket indicating that if they recreated an edition using BLOX Total CMS > Documents > Advertising > Create Edition from Edition file... and a page switched from having ads to having no ads that the prior ads would remain for that page. This should be corrected now. INDESIGN-4242
Distributed Production PDF Update to Page Tracker) We discovered that the long-standing policy of not sending updates to PDFs to Page Tracker once a page has reached the last process of the Pages workflow was not followed for Distributed Production-based pages. Thus, a user could open a page that had previously been finalized and cause the PDF to be updated during a Check-In. This can cause Live e-Editions to update inadvertently. This has been changed. Only Output will update the PDF of a Distributed Production page at the final process. This matches the legacy behavior. INDESIGN-4252
New Folio Text Variable for Next Month using AP shortened style) We had a site ask for a Folio Text Variable with an Associated Press abbreviated month for next month. M5 now provides that. You can see a current list of all automatic folio text variables at this link. INDESIGN-4255
This document outlines the Folio Text Variables that will exist even when the site and or user doesn't have access to the standard legacy add-ons for `folioProperties`.
5.70.00-01 Released 2024.04.02
Faster Domain Switching when Opening Documents) We had a site that experienced issues with opening documents using legacy methods, Open by Status is the recommended method, and the domain wasn’t consistently changing. Changes have been made to change the domain to match the document being opened sooner in the process. This is particularly important if the user is also opening a document from a prior version of Adobe InDesign because the earlier methods would fail until the document was forcibly saved to match the current version of Adobe InDesign. INDESIGN-4253
Prior Version
The release notes for client 5.69 can be found here.
