This software is a plug-in designed for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy CS/CS2, enabling users to have full authority over text length. With this tool, users can have complete flexibility over their text content.
The Overset Manager is an Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy plug-in that provides comprehensive control over text overset and length. It allows you to count, display, edit, and print overset text, giving you complete control over the text's production security. It's an essential tool for those dealing with text-intensive files regularly.
With Overset Manager, you can easily identify whether a file contains overset and the affected text threads. Additionally, you can show or hide overset frames for selected or all text flows on the page to improve visibility. The plug-in also enables quicker access to a specific overset frame from the Overset Manager palette for editing.
The simultaneous alert when printing or exporting a document containing overset text, helps prevent costly mistakes. Overset Manager is designed with user preferences in mind. Users can determine the background color and the position of the overset frames relative to the master frame. This can be placed comfortably, e.g. at the top right side of the document, where even lengthy overset text is visible. Alternatively, placing overset text frames the left of the original text frame is relevant when using right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
By counting placeholder text, Overset Manager enables determining the exact text length required to fill the text thread, providing precise instructions to the editor. Multiple measurements are possible, including characters, words, lines, and manuscript lines, including a decimal value of 5.5 to calculate the standard words needed to fill the text frame. The length of manuscript lines is set in the Overset Manager preferences.
The plugin allows measuring text length in various ways, including the current selection, text columns or text threads, and separately displaying the quantities of text that fit in the text frames and overset text. The Overset Manager palette assists this by measuring the current selection against the remaining underset text, ensuring that the copy fitting is precise. If a text frame isn't full entirely, an estimate of the number of missing lines is displayed.
Overall, Overset Manager complements Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy by providing unparalleled control over text overset and length, improving production security and eliminating costly mistakes.
With Overset Manager, you can easily identify whether a file contains overset and the affected text threads. Additionally, you can show or hide overset frames for selected or all text flows on the page to improve visibility. The plug-in also enables quicker access to a specific overset frame from the Overset Manager palette for editing.
The simultaneous alert when printing or exporting a document containing overset text, helps prevent costly mistakes. Overset Manager is designed with user preferences in mind. Users can determine the background color and the position of the overset frames relative to the master frame. This can be placed comfortably, e.g. at the top right side of the document, where even lengthy overset text is visible. Alternatively, placing overset text frames the left of the original text frame is relevant when using right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
By counting placeholder text, Overset Manager enables determining the exact text length required to fill the text thread, providing precise instructions to the editor. Multiple measurements are possible, including characters, words, lines, and manuscript lines, including a decimal value of 5.5 to calculate the standard words needed to fill the text frame. The length of manuscript lines is set in the Overset Manager preferences.
The plugin allows measuring text length in various ways, including the current selection, text columns or text threads, and separately displaying the quantities of text that fit in the text frames and overset text. The Overset Manager palette assists this by measuring the current selection against the remaining underset text, ensuring that the copy fitting is precise. If a text frame isn't full entirely, an estimate of the number of missing lines is displayed.
Overall, Overset Manager complements Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy by providing unparalleled control over text overset and length, improving production security and eliminating costly mistakes.
What's New
Version 6.0: N/A