Release notes axaio MadeToPrint

The complete list of features, bug fixes and changes of the latest versions can be found here:

General

• Compatibility with Adobe InDesign Server 2024

Bugfixes

• Resolved a crash when running twice in the same InDesign session
• Fixed a bug where MadeToPrint was unable to find Output Jobs in when manually starting the auto mode
• Fixed a bug where the current document was closed after processing in MadeToPrint Standard processing
• Improved handling of new InDesign feature “hidden spreads”

General

• Compatibility with Adobe InDesign 2024

New Feature

• Support hidden spreads in parameter overrides (in InDesign 2024)
• New preflight option to check for missing plugins
• New option in layer mode where you can choose to include layers whose “printable” is set to “false”
• New preflight option to check for missing fonts or links independently
• Jobticket can now contain the actual script code in <preprocess-javascript-data> / <postprocess-javascript-data> instead of path to script
• Input job ticket can now be in JSON format
• Result job ticket can be JSON when requested in the input ticket (<ticket-outformat>)
• New Token “MadeToPrintJob”

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where MadeToPrint got stuck in switch mode when processing documents with linked InDesign documents
• Fixed a bug where Jobticket mode in MadeToPrint Server did not output the preflight report
• Parameter Overrides for Page Orientation always used Portrait Mode
• Fixed a bug in Preflight when processing Books
• Fixed a bug where the auto mode could not be started
• Fixed a bug where books could not been processed with documents that need conversion
• Fixed a bug where MadeToPrint crashed in trial mode

Improvements

• Optimised Installed in a way that it does not remove other axaio plugins
• When creating a book in Auto mode (from folder), ignore hidden files and check if files are valid InDesign files
• Files that got stuck in hotfolder (e.g. because crashing InDesign Server), are now moved to error folder (if one is provided)
• In Jobticket mode, the result xml will contain missing layer names in <content><message>
• Scope of preprocess scripts (run per job, layer, page) is now configurable via job ticket

UI enhancements

• Parameter overrides does allow more than eight overrides per out put job
• Parameter overrides is integrated into setup panel (no separate dialog anymore)
• Couple of minor UI enhancements

General

• Compatibility with Adobe InDesign 2023

New Feature

• There is a new feature in layer processing to remove non visible layers from the PDF if only a subset of InDesign-layers are processed

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where links needed to be updated after packaging a layout with MadeToPrint: copying the ID package to the final destination does not change the modification date of the links
• Fixed a bug where metadata was not reachable when working in Woodwing mode
• Fixed a bug that leads to only one instance running in multi instance processing
• Fixed a bug where pdf post process variables could not be saved

Improvements

• “Show page box” does now also work with layer combinations and single layer output
• Enhanced integrated InDesign preflight runs only on the page range that is actually exported
• New version of pdf post processing engine supports additional PDF profiles
• Smaller improvements in the UI and on internal processing

Caution When processing books, there is a bug when processing books from older InDesign versions as well as needing to update the book document paths. This bug will be adressed in the next release.

New Feature

• Allows to package/collect layout data before output

Bugfixes

• Improved book processing:
  • Create single page output from book input
  • Search missing links in additional folders had no effect in book mode
  • Process books from older InDesign versions
  • Run pre-process scripts on all book documents
• Package creation on fileserver volumes/shares did not work properly
• Package creation from IDML input did not work properly
• Package creation in Woodwing mode lead to a crash of Auto mode
• Document Links were read only in Woodwing mode
• Saving modifications to source document did not work for some documents
• Some tokens did not work as expected
• Post processing did not fully work on M1 machines
• Preflight should run for each layer combination

Improvements

• Some minor UI optimizations
• Cleanup of temporary files improved
• Resolution options for JPG export now allow 2400 dpi
• Update pdfEngine to version 13
  • Transfer hyperlinks from placed INDD or PDF documents
  • Additional default profiles, e.g. convert to PDF/X6

General

• Compatibility with Adobe InDesign 2022
• Native support for Apple Silicon (ARM/M1) for MadeToPrint for InDesign 2022

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash in Job Set dialog

Features

• ExtendScript: Added a method to log to MadeToPrint.log in scripts that are used in MadeToPrint Jobs:

  app.theMadeToPrintObject.log("This is a new line in MadeToPrint.log");

Bug fixes:

• MadeToPrint InDesign Server was sometimes unable to load

Improvements:

• pdf export presets in Output Job also recognize global presets

bug fixes:

• InDesign crashed on book export if as output format “Interactive PDF” was chosen
• Solved Issues with output paths when mixing xml jobticket mode and document auto mode
• When exporting single pages from an InDesign book, only pages for first document got created
• Scripts did not run when exporting an InDesign book
• ePub export works as expected
• Book export did not work as expected for some features
• When document in jobticket was unavailable/empty, MadeToPrint Auto ran into a loop


 improvements:

• Renaming and unification of different terms in the UI (e.g. “Printer” is now “Output”)
• License registration now also possible without administration permissions
• Improvements in Installer for finding default install path
• Preflight report file can now also be placed into the destination folder
• System temp folder will be used for packaging
• Links of layouts from Woodwing Enterprise packages were read only

• Compatibility with Adobe InDesign 2021 for Standard & Auto version
  

• Bugfix: MadeToPrint crashed when set was empty
• Bugfix: Preflight report was missing when only running InDesign preflight
• Bugfix: Token sequence editor removed existing text when inserting token
• Bugfix: PageRange from jobticket xml was not recognized
• Bugfix: Checkbox “View PDF after export” was ignored (always true) in book mode
• Bugfix: InDesign Server crashes when document contained a placed InDesign document
• New: Jobticket and Switch mode can now handle InDesign books
• New: Document name for “Embed external content” is taken from external file name (was MTPdoc only)
• New: New MadeForLayers version integrated (layer functionality)
• New: When running a job set its name is also logged to MadeToPrint.log
• New: Configuration names can handle UTF-8 characters

• New: XML Jobtickets can now work with relative paths in <document>, <output-path>, <scripts…>, etc.
• Bugfix: When working with books, preflight report was not found
• Bugfix: In some constellations, missing preflight reports stopped auto mode
• MadeToPrint uses the system temp folder for temp files [Windows]
• Importing of a Set also imports the associated Printjobs (when .joboptions files are next to the imported set)
• Tokens can be used Parameter Overrides values
• Temporary book name when processing complete folders with multiple files is now name of the folder

• New: Parameter Overrides for JPG export
• New: MadeToPrint Server UI can edit, delete, duplicate configurations
• New: InDesign menu entry to go directly to the editing mode (Plug-Ins → MadeToPrint Jobs → Define)
• Job list in edit mode selects jobs better
• Dialogs are no longer “hidden” behind the main window
• In batch processing, the radio buttons were reversed

• Feature: new Token SCRIPTLABEL
• MadeForLayers updated

• Feature: when running sets, using the page ranges from the included settings can be used
• Bugfix with single page output when using jobtickets
• Bugfix in token engine when filename contains ”(_)”
• MadeForLayers updated
• New version of pdf post processing engine (version 10)

• New MadeForLayers included, with display of processing steps meta data
• Feature: Jobticket mode has a new optional key <singlepageoutput> to change the single page setting of the MadeToPrint job
• Feature: Jobticket mode has now more information about the processing instance in the out xml ticket

• New option: “do not create destination folder”, destination folder will not be dynamically created but must exists before export
• Create seperate pages also for export to INDD
• Fixed a bug when importing configurations into MadeToPrint Server
• When creating Packages there is now an option to export IDML and PDF as well (CC 2014 and up)
• Batch mode takes also IDML files

• New: processing steps meta data are written to the PDF when set up in MadeForLayers
• New: new token - SUBPATH (returns the sub path of the document in Batch mode)
• Fixed an issue in Parameter overrides
• cmd+c doesn't close dialogs anymore, but rather inserts text as expected
• After package creation the “locked” attribute is removed from folder

The new version 2.7.306 includes a new feature, optimizations and bug fixes:

• New: new token – EQUAL
• vjoon K4 ticket mode – after processing the document, the folder in IN folder is also cleaned up
• Better handling of parallel job processing (lock files enhanced)
• Better handling of sections in page label
• Parameter Overrides feature – printerMarksOffset for PDF has correct data type now
• “Locked” InDesign files are ignored in IN folder when they can not be processed
• Warning dialog in auto mode did sometimes crash
• MadeToPrint InDesign menu does not remove MadeForLayers nor MadeToCompare menu item
• Order of pages is now exactly as in page range
• Editing the name of a job does no more select another existing job automatically when having the same name

The new version 2.7.304 includes additional features, optimizations and bug fixes:

• PostProcess variables can be filled with Tokens
• Parameter Overrides dialog stays on top after showing help
• Stability for book processing improved
• Parameter Overrides: XML tickets can read “enums”, values shown in help dialog
• Parameter Overrides does not keep old values anymore
• Package is checked after creation, check for existence of InDesign file

The new version 2.7.303 includes additional features, optimizations and bug fixes:

• New MadeToPrint Server UI with the option to import and change MadeToPrint configurations
• When using a time limited/subscription license the MadeToPrint Server UI now shows the remaining time
• Post process scripts are executed, even if there was a preflight error
• More options in the page range feature, e.g. sections
• Several smaller bug fixes in the MadeToPrint UI handling

• Compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2015
• PDF Export for documents with large objects on master page is much faster
• K4 ticket mode can process packages (for new K4 font feature)
• Several bug fixes for drawing lines (page box feature)
• Imposition did not work for some configurations

For all versions:

• Preprocess scripts can be executed per scope: job, page or layer
• After installation settings from an previous InDesign version can be imported
• When copying/moving files to a server the operation is repeated in case of failure (e.g. temporary loss of server connection)
• Book export: Layers can be exported separately
  
  

MadeToPrint Standard

• MadeToPrint-Jobs can be run via InDesign Shortcuts (First ten print jobs are listed in menu, can be ordered by rating)
  
  

MadeToPrint Standard & Auto

• Compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2014
  
  

MadeToPrint Auto & Server

• Scanning of files for multiple jobs is much faster
  
  

• Parameter Overrides: PDF/X-4:2010 can be chosen for Standard Compliance (is PDF/X-4:2007 for ID 5 - ID 7.0)
• Preflight report file is UTF 8
• Overwriting output files improved
• JPEG export handles transparency for correct output
• TokenEngine: Token result can now contain apostrophe or quotes
• SwitchMode: MTP_ID_Pre_StatusInfo.txt contains the right information
• Fixed a problem with truncated file names for overwritten files on certain operating systems

Features:

• new export mode “PDF (Interactive)”
• New tokens: FIRSTPRINTSPREADNUMBER, LASTPRINTSPREADNUMBER, GENERATEDFILESSEQCOUNT, GENERATEDFILESCOUNT, GENERATEDFILESEQNUMBER, GENERATEDFILENUMBER
• Server JavaScript editMtpAutoJob() has additional parameter for priority, needs Server UI 2.5.285.

Bugfixes:

• When Distiller is used, MadeToPrint waits until the PDF file is readable
• K4 Tickets were not processed

Changes:

• Preflight panel closed before processing, did crash sometimes [WIN]

Features:

• hotfolder can have priority. Higher priority hotfolders are processed completely before other hotfolders are scanned.
• PNG export can now use smoothing options
• TIFF export can now use smoothing options
• layer handling: Print layer views by name
  
  

Bugfixes:

• fixed bug in external library, which caused some installation to export false PDFs
• order of pages is exactly as in the page range string
• page range from jobticket can also be used for jobsets
• infobar preview is shown in InDesign CC on Mac again
• scaling and moving of page content when using Infobar works again
  
  

Changes:

• better handling of distiller processes
• better handling of PDF post process
• pdfToolbox version is updated [pdfEngine 7.0.1 (252)] (more PDF profiles to choose from)
• K4 MetaData can now be accessed in K4 v6
  
  

General:

• enhanced stability and speed