Rorohiko Product Catalog

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. APID ToolAssistant PL is a helper plug-in. You can use most of the free tools from Rorohiko Workflow Resources without purchasing a license.

By itself, it does not ‘do’ anything apparent – instead it assists other plug-ins to do their job.

When you want to use any third-party (non-Rorohiko) tools which are built around APID ToolAssistant PL, purchasing a license becomes a must.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® and Adobe® Illustrator®. CalculatedFields PLVD treats a page item's name as an Excel-style formula - name an item "=TODAY()" or '=CONCATENATE("v", 3)' and it evaluates the formula and writes the result into the item, or reshapes the item itself for DOM formulas like "=SETBOUNDS(...)". Frames named "@Name" or "#Name" act as input or named fields other expressions can reference. Built-in functions live in an editable sidecar you can extend.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher.

This tool allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image. It works best for JPEG and TIFF images. As far as we know, complex, multi-layered Photoshop images don’t always work – so you might want to stick to JPEG or TIFF.

You can try out Color2Gray PL for free for 20 days. After that, a license is required to keep using it.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® Illustrator®. CompExporter VD batch-exports Adobe® Illustrator® artwork variants driven by comma-separated category:value tags in layer names. It ships with LayerTagger, a companion script to set, rename, reorder and validate those tags on the currently visible layers.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. Crawler.ID2MD PL converts Adobe® InDesign® documents or books into the Markdown format.

Use the download and install buttons to try out the software for 30 days without purchasing an activation. After the trial period lapses, you can purchase an activation.

More info: https://www.docdataflow.com/crawler-id2md/

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher

Avoid digging through scattered Adobe® InDesign® panels for info - this tool displays important information about your Adobe® InDesign® document right where you need it, in your work area. No need to disrupt your train of work and move your mouse all over the place to bring some palette or indicator into view.

You can try out FrameReporter PL for free for 20 days. After that, a license is required to keep using it.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. Automatically assign hyperlinks throughout the whole Adobe® InDesign® document.

Can add links to Adobe® InDesign® text or images, based on GREP-based pattern matching on text, file path, assigned styles, or fonts.

The trial is fully functional but pauses for confirmation every 50 links. The licensed version runs uninterrupted.

More info: https://www.rorohiko.com/gryperlink

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher

This tool gives you a floating library-palette filled with images that are automatically retrieved from one or more folders.

ImageLibraryLoader PL is a free tool, but we're always grateful for any donations to help with support and maintenance.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher

This simple tool offers an alternative method to using the layers palette for moving objects between layers.

It also has an optional feature to nudge all items on the layer throughout the whole document or across the current spread.

LayerLifter PL is a free tool, but we're always grateful for any donations to help with support and maintenance.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher

This tool helps you quickly select a bunch of similar items that are scattered all over a page or a spread. Instead of having to shift-click-click-click to select a number of scattered frames of the same type, you can now select a single frame, and then use the Select All Similar function (preferrably via a keyboard shortcut) to select all the other similar frames in one go.

LikeFindsLike PL is a free tool, but we're always grateful for any donations to help with support and maintenance.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher.

This tool helps anyone who needs to lay out structured, repetitive documents, for example, paper forms. It allows to automatically coordinate adjustments to the positioning and size of multiple page items that are scattered over the layout.

You can try out MagnetoGuides PL for free for 20 days. After that, a license is required to keep using it.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® Photoshop, Adobe® InDesign®. A Scripts panel, styled after the built-in Adobe® InDesign® Scripts panel. Browse and run scripts from the app's own Application/Community/User script folders, from Documents/Adobe Scripts/<App>/, and from any extra folders you add. Double-click a script to run it (ExtendScript, plus UXPScript in Adobe® InDesign®); double-click any other file to open it; right-click to reveal in Finder/Explorer. Free, fully functional.

There is a alternate version ('OT') for use with Adobe® InDesign®, Adobe® Illustrator®, Adobe® Bridge, Adobe® InCopy® and Adobe® After Effects®, also available in PluginInstaller.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®, Adobe® Illustrator®, Adobe® Bridge®, Adobe® InCopy®, Adobe® After Effects®, Adobe® Premiere® and Adobe® Bridge®. A Scripts panel, styled after the built-in Adobe® InDesign® Scripts panel. Browse and run scripts from the app's own Application/Community/User script folders, from Documents/Adobe Scripts/<App>/, and from any extra folders you add. Double-click a script to run it (ExtendScript, plus UXPScript in Adobe® InDesign®); double-click any other file to open it; right-click to reveal in Finder/Explorer. Free, fully functional.

There is a alternate version ('NT') for use with Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® InDesign®, also available in PluginInstaller.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. SizeLabels PL is a script. You can download and install it with PluginInstaller.

It looks at all the frames in your document, adds a small text frame next to each frame it finds, and sets the content of the added text frame to the size of the associated frame.

There are a number of optional 'Pro' features which can be purchased. After installing SizeLabels PL you can try out the additional 'Pro' features for 30 days. After 30 days, the script will continue to work, but the 'Pro' features will not be accessible any more.

More info: https://www.rorohiko.com/sizelabels

For use with Adobe® InDesign®.

Fix broken image links. SmartRelink PL hunts down the missing files, shows you what it found in a simple text report, and relinks only what you approve.

One Undo takes it all back.

Donationware.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. SmokeWordStacks PL is a free script to identify and highlight word stacks in documents. Word stacks occur when identical words are repeated in a vertical sequence across lines of text, which can be distracting and visually unappealing in layout design.

This script helps designers quickly find these repetitions, ensuring a cleaner and more professional-looking document.

SmokeWordStacks is free and fully functional. Donations are welcomed. To donate, use PluginInstaller to purchase one or more 'seats' for this script.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher

StoryParker PL is a tool that helps you cope with cluttered pages.

Every page item can be temporarily ‘parked’. You can put it aside, somewhere on the pasteboard, and quickly move it back to where it came from later.

You can try out StoryParker PL for free for 20 days. After that, a license is required to keep using it.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. StringsAttached PL is a free script.

It currently generates chords for guitar and ukulele, including baritone ukuleles and guitaleles.

It will scan the text of an Adobe® InDesign® document for references to chords, like (C), (Em7), (F#maj7)... and will replace these with chord diagrams .

It can also search for chord names and transpose both the names and the diagrams higher or lower, as desired.

More info: https://www.rorohiko.com/stringsattached

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. Style-O-Matic PL reads text frames in an open document, finds frames that contain a [style-o-matic] config section, parses the markup rules defined in that config, then scans a story and applies character styles wherever it finds matching markup tokens. The result is that text like:

This is **bold** and this is *italic* and this is <code>monospace</code>. …becomes properly styled text, with the markup tokens removed, in one script run. Style-O-Matic PL is free and fully functional. Donations are welcomed. To donate, use PluginInstaller to purchase one or more 'seats' for this script.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher

If you’re publishing a newspaper, magazine, newsletter… this will enable you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly into an Adobe® InDesign® document – for example, for your ‘Puzzle Page’, or to generate whole booklets with Sudoku puzzles.

You can try out the Sudoku Generator PL for free for 20 days. After that, a license is required to keep using it.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® and Adobe® Illustrator®.

SuperGroups PLVD lets a single group hold items that belong on different layers. Normally, everything in a group has to sit on the same layer, which gets in the way when you keep things like prices, SKUs, die lines or production notes on their own layers so you can hide them in one click.

Build your group as usual and mark which items belong on which layer. SuperGroups then spreads the group out across those layers, and can pull it back together into a single group whenever you want to move, copy or reuse it.

SuperGroups PLVD is a free tool, but we're always grateful for any donations to help with support and maintenance.

More info: https://www.rorohiko.com/supergroups

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. Swimmer PL: SWitch IMagER. The script can swap key words with graphic icons and back.

The idea behind Swimmer PL is that a document might contain keywords that sometimes need to be replaced by graphic icons, and while editing can be temporarily reverted back to plain words. E.g. a brochure about crockery might contain terms like dishwasher safe, hand wash, …

The script can search the document for any occurrences of some designated keywords and can replace them with corresponding icon-size graphic images. Afterwards, it can also perform the reverse operation: find all such images and replace them back with the original keywords.

More info: https://www.rorohiko.com/swimmer

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. TableAxe PL

A lightweight tool that lets you: • Split tables by rows or columns. • Merge tables. Stack them below each other or stitch them side-by-side.

TableAxe PL is fully usable without a licence; the only difference is a small reminder that appears when you run the script. If the tool saves you time, please consider a licence. Your support helps keep niche utilities like this alive and maintained for new Adobe® InDesign® versions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. TextExporter PL can export all the stories of an Adobe® InDesign® document into a single file. Supported output file formats:

▪ Rich Text Format (RTF) ▪ InDesign Tagged Text ▪ Text

Download and install to try it out with the 30-day fully functional trial. For continued use, you can purchase an activation.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. This free tool helps you with threading or unthreading of text frames. Works great in conjunction with Adobe® InDesign® Data Merge to collate all imported records into one story.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. This product converts a Personal Activation Code from the previous licensing system into a 1-seat activation for APID ToolAssistant PL. Please enter your activation code into the field provided, and if the code is valid, the price will become 0.00. Note: an activation code can only be converted once.

APID ToolAssistant PL is a helper plug-in.

By itself, it does not ‘do’ anything apparent – instead it assists other plug-ins to do their job.

For use with Adobe® InDesign®. This product converts a Workgroup Activation Code from the previous licensing system into a 10-seat activation for APID ToolAssistant PL. Please enter your activation code into the field provided, and if the code is valid, the price will become 0.00. Note: an activation code can only be converted once.

APID ToolAssistant PL is a helper plug-in.

By itself, it does not ‘do’ anything apparent – instead it assists other plug-ins to do their job.

For use with Adobe® Creative Cloud® apps. Access web sites and FTP servers from ExtendScript without complicated code. JSXGetURL AA adds network connection features to ExtendScript.

It works with any Adobe® Creative Cloud® app that has ExtendScript support.

This version only works on desktop apps - not Adobe® InDesign Server®. It works as a demo, allowing 5 transfers between host app restarts. For unlimited use, you can purchase an activation.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign Server®. Access web sites and FTP servers from ExtendScript without complicated code. JSXGetURL Server PL adds network connection features to ExtendScript.

It works with any Adobe® Creative Cloud® app that has ExtendScript support.

This is the Adobe® InDesign Server® version. It works as a demo, allowing 5 transfers between host app restarts. For unlimited use, you can purchase an activation.

PluginInstaller does not yet support installing this automatically - please use the 'More Info' link below for manual installation instructions.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher: this product converts a Personal Activation Code from the previous licensing system into a 1-seat activation for the Sudoku Generator PL.

If you’re publishing a newspaper, magazine, newsletter… this will enable you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly into an Adobe® InDesign® document – for example, for your ‘Puzzle Page’, or to generate whole booklets with Sudoku puzzles.

Please enter your activation code into the field provided. Note: an activation code can only be converted once.

For use with Adobe® InDesign® 2024 or higher: this product converts a Personal Activation Code from the previous licensing system into a 10-seat activation for the Sudoku Generator PL.

If you’re publishing a newspaper, magazine, newsletter… this will enable you to generate Sudoku puzzles directly into an Adobe® InDesign® document – for example, for your ‘Puzzle Page’, or to generate whole booklets with Sudoku puzzles.

Please enter your activation code into the field provided. Note: an activation code can only be converted once.