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What's new in DocsFlow 3.14.1

Mar 6, 2024
  • This patch improves character style mapping.

New in DocsFlow 3.14 (Oct 11, 2023)

  • Adds support for InDesign 2024.
  • Discontinues support for InDesign 2021. While we’ll no longer fix problems in or add features to discontinued versions, we will otherwise provide normal support indefinitely. Download links for final-version installers for older versions of InDesign that we no longer support can be found in the sidebar of DocsFlow’s Release History page.

New in DocsFlow 3.13.2 (Oct 5, 2023)

  • Fixes a problem that could cause the occasional link update to fail with a KeyError message.

New in DocsFlow 3.13.1 (Aug 24, 2023)

  • Fixes a problem where the PDF auto-export preferences could mysteriously start out as enabled after updating from an older (pre-3.11) version of DocsFlow.
  • Fixes a problem where a link update could lose a hyperlink that’s applied to (and used only by) a single page item.
  • Fixes a rare problem where destinations aren’t shown in the Export to Google Docs dialog.

New in DocsFlow 3.13.0 (May 18, 2023)

  • Changes:
  • Adds automatic PDF export of a linked DocsFlow story to Google Drive when its link or the linked file is updated. Automatic PDF export is controlled by settings in the new PDF Export on Update group in DocsFlow’s new Preferences panel.
  • When a Link is Updated – when selected, DocsFlow automatically exports a linked story to Google Drive when the link is updated with a Link Update.
  • When a Linked Google Docs Document is Updated – when selected, DocsFlow automatically exports a linked story to Google Drive when the linked document is updated with an Update Linked Google Docs Document or created by an Export to Google Docs….
  • Use PDF Preset – selects the PDF style for the automatic export. Because this setting is stored in the current document and Adobe’s PDF presets are stored on each machine, be sure that the selected preset will be available on any machine that the document will be opened on.
  • Note that a PDF is never automatically exported when a Google Docs document is first placed.
  • PDFs created by an automatic export contain only the document pages on which the linked story is present. PDFs are created “next to” the Google Docs document (so, in the same folder as the linked item) and are given the same name as the linked file with a “.pdf” extension. For example, if the linked Google Docs document’s location is production/May Newsletter, then a PDF named May Newsletter.pdf will be exported to the active account’s production folder.
  • Exposes DocsFlow’s PDF preferences to scripting on the application and document objects as properties on the docsflowPreferences object.
  • exportPDFAfterLinkUpdate / bool / read-write / If true, exports of a PDF of a story’s pages automatically when its link is updated. The default is false.
  • exportPDFAfterLinkedDocumentUpdate / bool / read-write / If true, exports a PDF of a story’s pages automatically when its linked document is updated. The default is false.
  • pdfStyle / string / read-write / The name of the PDF preset to use for exports. The default is the application’s last-used preset, else the first preset in the list.
  • Adds Export Story PDF to Google Docs and View Story PDF in Google Docs to most DocsFlow menus.
  • Adds scripting support for Place from Google Docs… on the Application and Document objects as
  • void placeWithDocsFlow(fileName [, showingOptions][, linking][, replacing][, applyingGrid])
  • with parameters
  • fileName / {File | Array of Files | string | Array of strings} / The File for a local Google Drive file, the URL, or the Google Docs documentID of one or more documents to place from the active account
  • showingOptions / bool / If true, displays the Import Options dialog (optional, default is false)
  • linking / bool / If true, creates a DocsFlow link for the document (optional, default is true)
  • replacing / bool / If true, replaces the selected item (optional, default is true)
  • applyingGrid / bool / Whether to apply grid format for placed story (optional, default is false)
  • which loads a Google Docs document into the place gun like File > DocsFlow > Place from Google Docs…, and on Page, Spread and Master Spread objects as
  • array of any placeWithDocsFlow(fileName [, placePoint][, destinationLayer][, showingOptions][, linking][, autoflowing])
  • with parameters
  • fileName / {File | string} / The File for a local Google Drive file, the URL, or the Google Docs documentID of the document to place from the active account
  • placePoint / Array of Measurement Unit (Number or String) / The point at which to place the placed document (optional, default is [0,0])
  • destinationLayer / Layer / The layer on which to place the imported text (optional)
  • showingOptions / bool / If true, displays the Import Options dialog (optional, default is false)
  • linking / bool / If true, creates a DocsFlow link for the document (optional, default is true)
  • autoflowing / bool / If true, auto-flows the placed text (optional, default is true)
  • which imports the Google Docs document into a new text frame at the specified location and returns as the placed document’s Story.
  • Adds scripting support for Export to Google Docs… on text-ish objects as
  • void exportWithDocsFlow(name[, destinationFolder][, showingOptions][, linking])
  • with parameters
  • name / string / The name for the exported document
  • destinationFolder / string / The parent folder ID for the exported document (optional, default is My Drive)
  • showingOptions / bool / If true, displays the Export Options dialog (optional, default is false)
  • linking / bool / If true, creates a DocsFlow link for the exported document (optional, default is true)
  • Invoking this method exports the entire associated story as a Google Docs document and returns as the URL of the new Google Docs document. Note that an export always creates a new document and never overwrites an existing document, even if an existing document has the same name.
  • Adds scripting support for Update Linked Google Docs Document on Link objects as
  • Link updateLinkedGoogleDocsDocument()
  • which returns as the updated Link.
  • Adds a Change Tracking setting to DocsFlow’s Import Options dialog’s Advanced Options for Updates panel. Select None to disable change tracking during a link update, which, if not needed, can improve the stability and speed of link updates with large files. Otherwise, select All InDesign Changes and Latest Incoming Changes, the default, so the updated story will contain changes encountered during the update (viewable with Window > Editorial > Track Changes or Edit > Edit in Story Editor).
  • Fixes a long-standing problem with slow PDF exports. A document with many links to Google Docs documents or just one link to a large Google Docs document no longer takes what was sometimes a long pause before generating a PDF.

New in DocsFlow 3.12.1 (Mar 16, 2023)

  • Fixes a problem introduced in the 3.12 release that showed the Unlink All Google Docs Documents entry mislabeled as a second Update All Linked Google Docs Documents in the Links panel’s menu.
  • Provides a confirmation dialog when Unlink All Google Docs Documents is selected.
  • Changes the ordering of folders in the Place Google Docs Documents and Export to Google Docs dialogs from “ASCIIbetical” to natural (which is alphabetical but with case ignored and multi-digit numbers treated as a single value such that a folder named “a12” is listed after one named “a2” instead of before).
  • Fixes a display problem where DocsFlow’s frame badges didn’t always redraw to add (or remove) the red “+” symbol when a story’s content status changed (the Story Status field in the Links panel).

New in DocsFlow 3.12 (Mar 2, 2023)

  • Changes:
  • Adds First Line Indent to the list of source options for mapping a paragraph style in the Import Options dialog.
  • Adds Advanced Merge Options to the Import Options dialog that can be accessed with a new Advanced Options for Updates… button in the main dialog.
  • Adds the ability to freeze the existing formatting of table rows and/or columns in Advanced Merge Options to prevent styling from wandering during an update.
  • Fixes a problem that could cause InDesign to quit unexpectedly when updating a link containing a table with more than 55,000 cells.
  • Fixes a problem with the License dialog when showing a license that has expired.
  • Fixes licensing maintenance and stability issues.

New in DocsFlow 3.11.1 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Fixes problems with link status updating that could cause long pauses or result in a rate limiting message.
  • Fixes drag and drop for legacy Google Drive for desktop files.

New in DocsFlow 3.11.0 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • Adds support for InDesign 2023.
  • Moves all product licensing to subscriptions. For licensing information, please see InDesign 2023 plugins released.
  • Discontinues support for InDesign 2020. While we’ll no longer fix problems in or add features to discontinued versions, we will otherwise provide normal support indefinitely. Download links for final-version installers for older versions of InDesign that we no longer support can be found in the sidebar of DocsFlow’s Release History page.
  • Improves compatibility with InDesign’s Quick Apply.
  • Adds support for ignoring overrides on bullet characters with a new Bullet Character checkbox in the Preserving Overrides list on the Paragraph tab of the Import Options dialog.
  • Freezes the font Google Docs uses by default with bullets because their bullet characters don’t exist in most fonts.
  • Preserves font selections made in InDesign for linked documents when those documents are edited by Google Docs for the first time.
  • Discards italic-off and bold-off overrides when Preserving Overrides: Font Style is unchecked in the Import Options dialog’s Character tab.

New in DocsFlow 2.13.0 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2018.
  • Changes:
  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2018. The CC 2018 plug-in requires a valid DocsFlow CC 2018-level license. For licenses purchased within the past 9 months (since January 1, 2017, to keep it simple), we’ll be sending automatic upgrade emails as part of Em’s “major upgrade protection” policy. If your license is older than that, please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license.

New in DocsFlow 2.12.0 (Oct 4, 2017)

  • This release improves browser-based drag and drop and fixes updates of spanned table cells:
  • Improves drag and drop support with Google Chrome (on macOS, mainly) by handling dropped text that is really just a Google Drive URL.
  • Fixes progress bars for drag and drop that were sometimes a bit reluctant to show.
  • Fixes a problem where drag’n’drops of non-DocsFlow URLs weren’t being ignored.
  • Fixes a problem where spanned cells in a table could cause an update to fail.
  • Warns more aggressively about conflicts with deleted space characters.

New in DocsFlow 2.11.0 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • Adds a Relink to Google Docs… entry to the DocsFlow Links panel menu and enables re-linking in general of existing DocsFlow links.
  • Adds drag-and-drop support for Google Drive documents to the Place Google Docs Document dialog. Dragging a URL from docs.google.com or files from a Google Drive folder will select those items in the dialog’s list of documents. Dropped items not found in the list (maybe they’re from a different Google account) are quietly ignored.
  • Fixes a problem introduced in the 2.10.5 release where some shared folders aren’t displayed and the contained files are displayed at the top-level of the Place Google Docs Documents dialog
  • Adds Set Default Import Options from Link… to the Links panel’s DocsFlow menus so that the import settings used to place a Google Docs document can be viewed and used with the next Place from Google Docs.
  • Displays items in the Export to Google Docs dialog in a way that’s more like the Place Google Docs Documents dialog.
  • Enables Export to Google Docs… for already-linked stories.
  • Changes the Export to Google Docs dialog to use the current document’s title as its default name instead of always using “Untitled document.”
  • Fixes the Export to Google Docs dialog to display with the last-used folder already selected.
  • Fixes a problem where switching user accounts from the Export to Google Docs dialog would result in a “no active login” error.
  • Adds support for Books and a Set Import Options entry to the Book panel’s menu so that common Place from Google Docs settings (like style mapping) can be shared by all chapters (documents) in that book.

New in DocsFlow 2.10.5 (Jun 14, 2017)

  • This release improves stability, enables InDesign’s Missing Plug-ins alert, and addresses connectivity issues:
  • Fixes a problem where stray mouse clicks after starting a Place, Update or Relink could cause the operation to fail or the application to shut down.
  • Causes InDesign to show a Missing Plug-ins alert when a document containing placed DocsFlow links is opened and the DocsFlow plug-in isn’t installed.
  • Fixes potential loss of formatting after updating a linked Google document.
  • Fixes a problem where using multi-column features in a Google document could truncate the import.
  • Fixes a problem where documents in the trash could be shown in the Place dialog.
  • Fixes access to Google Drives that have more than 100 folders containing documents.
  • Fixes the login process for machines that have non-standard localhost configurations.

New in DocsFlow 2.10.4 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • Works around a UI bug introduced with InDesign’s CC 2017.1 update, where showing the Import Options dialog could cause the application to shut down, by using a vertical tabs control in the dialog in place of the old-style horizontal tabs control. In this situation, vertically-oriented tabs provide an effective alternative to ScriptUI’s standard-but-broken tabbedpanel control, seem to be easier to navigate, and, in our opinion, are better looking.

New in DocsFlow 2.10.3 (Apr 5, 2017)

  • This release fixes style mapping, supports list continuations, and improves stability:
  • Fixes the mapping of table cell and border colors to InDesign styles.
  • Adds support for list continuations in placed documents.
  • Fixes a problem where using Google’s “Suggesting” mode could cause InDesign to shut down.
  • Fixes a problem that was adding an empty paragraph after every page break in placed documents.
  • Reduces memory used during an Export to a fraction of what was required before.
  • Fixes a problem that could leave a frame badge on a story after an Unlink.
  • Fixes a problem with Update Link and Relink that could corrupt the updated story and produce the dreaded “missing base snapshot” error.

New in DocsFlow 2.10.2 (Feb 28, 2017)

  • This release improves stability and fixes issues with exporting images to Google.
  • Changes:
  • Fixes a bug where updating a table with spanned cells could cause InDesign to shut down.
  • Fixes a problem that was limiting the number of images exported to a Google Document.
  • Fixes support for crop settings on exported images.

New in DocsFlow 2.10.1 (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • Fixes a problem where the df link icons could linger on the frames of stories Unlinked with no DocsFlow plug-in installed.
  • Allows the import of Google documents containing badly-formed bullet lists.
  • Fixes a problem where tracked changes weren’t showing the user who created them.

New in DocsFlow 2.10 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • This release adds support for just-released InDesign CC 2017, improves drag’n’drop, and addresses a few issues with exporting:
  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2017. The CC 2017 plug-in requires a valid DocsFlow CC 2017-level license. For licenses purchased within the past 9 months (since February 1, 2016), we’ll be sending automatic upgrade emails as part of Em’s “major upgrade protection” policy. If your license is older than that, please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license.
  • Adds an alert for when drag’n’drop is used and DocsFlow isn’t signed in to a Google account.
  • Displays the Import Options dialog if a document is dropped with the Alt/Option key held down.
  • Fixes a problem where certain style mappings could cause an Export to fail.
  • Fixes a problem with character styles sometimes not being applied in exports.
  • Sets non-zero (2cm, Google’s default) margins for initial Google Docs exports.
  • Fixes a problem where collapsing ending paragraph returns could leave multiple returns.
  • Exports lists that are more consistent with InDesign’s lists.
  • Fixes a problem where incorrect font names could be exported from packaged InDesign documents that use document installed fonts from the package’s Document Fonts folder.

New in DocsFlow 2.9.6 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • This release fixes Export and Unlink and includes a number of stability improvements:
  • Fixes a long-standing problem where exporting an already-linked story could leave the story with multiple links or, when used with WordsFlow installed, result in slow story updates and document bloat.
  • Allows placing and updating shared, view-only Google documents.
  • Fixes the Unlink menu for links touched by InDesign’s Find Missing Links Before Opening Document feature with no DocsFlow installed.
  • Fixes a problem that could prevent an unsuccessful Place or Export from reporting the error.
  • Removes trailing paragraph returns when the Collapse all empty paragraphs import option is used.
  • Fixes a problem that could prevent stories containing Graphic-style table cells from updating.
  • Works around an InDesign bug that could cause an update of a story containing lots of conditional text to shut the application down.
  • Fixes a problem with updating, where inserted text was incorrectly being assigned the paragraph style of adjacent deleted text.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story containing cross-references could cause InDesign to freeze.

New in DocsFlow 2.9.5 (Aug 3, 2016)

  • Fixes progress bars during long imports and exports.
  • Fixes a problem introduced in the 2.9.1 release that could cause InDesign to shut down when placing, updating, or relinking a story making use of a font with a short name (three characters or less, like “Sen”). (InDesign CC or later only)
  • Works around an InDesign bug where deleting an imported story containing out-of-date cross-references was causing InDesign to shut down.
  • Fixes a problem introduced in the 2.9.1 release that caused an “Unhandled exception (ParseError)” error when using a font with a character special to xml (like &) in its name.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story with a table containing a graphic cell with mixed content caused InDesign to shut down.
  • Fixes a situation where DocsFlow wasn’t adhering to its “InDesign wins styling changes” update policy.
  • Fixes a rare problem that caused some updates to fail with an “Unhandled exception (KeyError)” error.
  • Fixes a problem where an update could lose a non-rectangular frame’s applied object style.

New in DocsFlow 2.9.4 (Apr 6, 2016)

  • Fixes a problem introduced with the 2.9.1 release that could occasionally cause InDesign to shut down when placing, updating, or relinking a story.
  • Works around an InDesign crash when updating or relinking content containing tables (Excel files/sheets) with text threads visible.
  • Fixes a potential crash when showing the Place Google Docs Documents dialog after switching to a different Google account.
  • Addresses a long-standing problem where Unlink could become disabled if the Google Doc document’s location (its uri) happened to change.

New in DocsFlow 2.9.3 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Fixes the Edit menu to display Undo Import rather than Undo Link Text Files after importing a Google Docs document. (InDesign CC and later only)
  • Fixes a problem where deleting tables in a story could prevent the story from being updated.
  • Works around a Google Drive problem where placing or updating a document could sometimes result in a “Download link is missing” error.
  • Fixes a problem introduced with the 2.9.1 release where placing or updating a document could sometimes cause InDesign to shut down.
  • Fixes a problem introduced with the 2.9.1 release where a Place might need to download the Google Docs document more than once.
  • Fixes a long-standing problem where an uncommunicative Google server could result in a modified link’s status being shown as unmodified. Now, when no response is received from Google, the link status is marked as “pending” instead of being left as-is.

New in DocsFlow 2.9.2 (Feb 24, 2016)

  • Fixes a problem where network issues could cause folders to disappear from the listing in the Place Google Docs Documents dialog.

New in DocsFlow 2.9.1 (Feb 22, 2016)

  • Provides a warning when a Place that would normally create a link doesn’t (due to the active tool and/or selection).
  • Fixes link status updating that could be slow or delayed when switching back in to the InDesign application.
  • Fixes a problem where the status icons on the Links panel weren’t always updating properly (were sometimes getting stuck marked as Offline, for example).
  • Fixes a problem introduced with the 2.8 release that could cause the application to shut down during PDF and IDML exports.
  • Addresses an issue that could make opening a document with many DocsFlow links be very slow or appear to hang.
  • Fixes problems with the listing of very large Google Drives due to server overload.
  • Fixes a problem where exported images could be the wrong size or shape.
  • Fixes a limitation when exporting grouped items to Google Documents that caused their contents to be ignored.

New in DocsFlow 2.9 (Dec 3, 2015)

  • This release improves support for embedded images, broadens our definition of “empty paragraph”, and addresses issues with updating and exporting stories:
  • Adds an Export images back to Google Docs option to the Import Options dialog for controlling the export of embedded images.
  • Gives embedded images in linked stories unique names so that they won’t conflict when exported from the InDesign document.
  • The Collapse all empty paragraphs import option now considers a paragraph with only whitespace in it to be empty.
  • Works around a condition which could produce a KeyError alert instead of opening the Place from Google Docs dialog.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story would fail if any style group names contained a colon.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story could fail if a hyperlink contained any footnote references.
  • Fixes a problem where exporting a story would fail it was in linked, anchored text frames in a group.
  • Fixes an issue that could prevent a story from being exported if [Basic Paragraph] was based on a custom style.

New in DocsFlow 2.8 (Sep 4, 2015)

  • This release adds an Update Linked Google Docs Document option to the main menu and fixes a few problems including an uncommon-but-obnoxious application freeze.
  • Changes:
  • Adds Update Linked Google Docs Document to the main DocsFlow menu.
  • Changes all Update Google Docs Document menus to display as Update Linked Google Docs Document.
  • Fixes a problem where placing a Google Docs document or updating a link in an InDesign document containing multiple Google Docs links could cause the InDesign application to freeze. (CC and later only)
  • Fixes a problem that could prevent (moved) text from being exported to a Google Docs document.
  • Displays shared documents whose location can no longer be determined inside an (Inaccessible Folder) instead of in the Place Google Docs Documents dialog’s root listing.
  • Improves the display of the DocsFlow text frame link badge. That it may disappear and reappear randomly at higher zoom levels is a known issue. (CC 2015 only)
  • Works around an InDesign problem which was preventing DocsFlow > Update Linked Google Docs Document from being enabled when the link’s Story Status was showing as modified. (CS5 only)

New in DocsFlow 2.7 (Aug 7, 2015)

  • Introduces custom installers for a simpler and more reliable installation experience. Just find your supported version of InDesign in the list (see DocsFlow for InDesign CS5–CC2015 in the sidebar, over there —>) and then click on the link that’s appropriate for your OS (Mac OS or Windows). Once the installer has downloaded, open the application (.exe, on Windows) or package (.pkg, on Mac OS) and follow the on-screen instructions.
  • Works around an InDesign problem which could, on some machines, cause a licensed DocsFlow installation to revert to a trial plug-in after restarting InDesign. (CC 2014 10.2 and CC 2015, Mac OS X only)
  • Adds Ignore cell inset to the import options dialog.
  • Fixes a problem where documents with copies of images would not export.
  • Fixes a problem where images inside tracked deletions could prevent a story from being exported.

New in DocsFlow 2.6 (Jun 20, 2015)

  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2015. The CC 2015 plug-in requires a valid DocsFlow CC 2015-level license. Please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license from a pre-CC 2015 plug-in or to see if you qualify for a free upgrade.
  • Abandons Adobe’s Extension Manager CC application as the preferred means of installing CC plug-ins. Because Adobe has deprecated Extension Manager, and, more importantly, because the latest Extension Manager update appears to break installation with zxp files altogether (not that it was ever all that reliable), we have decided to move away from Extension Manager and zxp-based installs. While we work on creating our own, custom installers, we will be providing our CC plug-ins as manual installations. What this means is that you will need to select the download link in the sidebar that’s appropriate for your OS (Mac OS or Windows), expand the downloaded zip file, and then drag files out of the archive and drop them your InDesign app’s Plug-ins folder (for which you’ll need administrative privileges). Step-by-step installation instructions are included in the readme within the archive.

New in DocsFlow 2.5.1 (Jun 13, 2015)

  • Fixes a problem where a successful browser login might be ignored.
  • Improves the handling of login cancellations and retries.

New in DocsFlow 2.5 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • Requires at least Mac OS X 10.6 for InDesign CS5 & CS5.5 installations. (Mac OS X only)
  • Requires all sign-ins to be secure, via a browser. Google no longer supports the less secure, direct-style sign-ins, so we have removed that as an option from DocsFlow’s Sign In to Google Docs dialog.
  • Includes pictures when exporting to Google Docs. (We couldn’t before because of a bug in Google Docs which now seems to be fixed.)
  • Renames the Incoming folder to Shared with me in the Place Google Docs Documents dialog, to better match what’s shown by Google Docs.
  • Allows exported text to use the ToBindingSide and AwayFromBindingSide paragraph justification settings.
  • Fixes a problem where signing in could fail with a SSLHandshakeError exception.
  • Fixes a problem where non-breaking and discretionary hyphens were being converted to spaces when exported to Google Docs. Non-breaking hyphens are now converted to regular hyphens and discretionary hyphens are simply removed.
  • Fixes a problem where messages from failed exports weren’t being shown.

New in DocsFlow 2.4.2 (Mar 12, 2015)

  • This release mainly addresses issues with anchored, linked items causing damage to the parent story’s DocsFlow connection.
  • Changes:
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story containing anchored, linked pictures or text could damage the DocsFlow connection and result in a “missing base snapshot” error.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a DocsFlow story would damage the connection of any DocsFlow-managed stories anchored within that story. With this fix, nested, anchored DocsFlow (or WordsFlow, for that matter) content is now supported. For example, an imported Google Docs sheet could now be anchored within a placed Google Docs document such that both the sheet and the document would be linked and either could be updated.
  • Fixes a problem where a DocsFlow-managed story placed from a snippet, library, or an IDML file would always have a Story Status of “Text Modified”.
  • Fixes a problem where exporting a story with any last-line justification applied could fail with an “Unhandled exception (KeyError)” message.
  • Fixes a problem where the “damaged” DocsFlow frame badge would only display if the story hadn’t been edited.

New in DocsFlow 2.4.1 (Jan 28, 2015)

  • Changes: Fixes the drag’n’drop of documents from a local Google Drive folder.

New in DocsFlow 2.4.0 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Introduces a new, fully functional Pro-product trial mode with a 15-day evaluation period to replace our old feature-limited (single link) demo mode.
  • DocsFlow no longer asks for a license when InDesign is started; instead, DocsFlow now asks for a license only when it is first used. If no license is provided, your 15-day trial will begin. You’ll then have 15 days to try all of DocsFlow’s features in your fully functional, Pro-level trial.
  • Your DocsFlow trial will provide you with an opportunity to purchase (Get License will take you to our online store) and enter a license code once per day. You can purchase or enter a license code at any time during the trial, without re-downloading or re-installing DocsFlow, using the trial’s License… menu.
  • You can check on your remaining evaluation balance at any time by bringing up DocsFlow’s About dialog.
  • Works around a Google Docs bug with numbered lists in exported text where the numbering reset was only affecting the first item.
  • Fixes a problem introduced in 2.3.1 where merged cells within tables could be split for no apparent reason.
  • Fixes a problem where cell styling could be lost during an update in rare situations.

New in DocsFlow 2.3.1 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Improves compatibility with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and fixes problems with the Place dialog and with table updating.
  • Changes:
  • Improves compatibility with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) when signing in with a browser. (OS X only)
  • Fixes a problem where the My Drive folder could wander into the Incoming folder displayed in the Place from Google Docs… dialog, when using non-English Google Drive accounts.
  • Fixes a problem where updating an InDesign story would ignore content that had been added to formerly-empty table cells.

New in DocsFlow 2.3.0 (Oct 8, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Fixes an incompatibility with the just-released InDesign CC 2014.1 update.
  • Works around an InDesign CC 2014.1 change that could cause InDesign to shut down when creating a new document. (CC 2014.1 only).
  • Adds a Google Drive-like Incoming folder to the Place Google Docs Documents dialog’s list for shared items, and restores the My Drive folder for self-owned items when using a direct (non-browser-based) sign-in.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a document containing changed cell colors could fail with an error.
  • Fixes a situation where styling could be lost during document updates.
  • fixes an incompatibility with the just-released InDesign CC 2014.1 update.

New in DocsFlow 2.2.2 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • Adapts to recent Google service changes and addresses problems with drag’n’drop and sheets.
  • Changes:
  • Adds browser-based drag’n’drop directly from the “new” Google Drive’s file list when using Chrome on Windows. Direct dragging and dropping from the file list using any other browser on Windows, or any browser on Mac OS X, is not supported yet, but the existing method of dragging an open document’s url works everywhere. (See the user guide for details.)
  • Fixes the display of a duplicate My Drive folder in the Place Google Docs Documents dialog when signed in via a browser (the “OAuth”-based login).
  • Fixes a problem where getting the list of documents for Place from Google Docs… could fail when switching between multiple Google accounts.
  • Fixes a problem where a Google change was preventing drag’n’drops of recently-created sheets to fail.
  • Fixes a problem where a recent Google server change could prevent sheets from downloading when using direct sign-in.
  • Fixes a problem where a document with a very long, linked story (hundreds of pages) could take longer than normal to open.
  • Fixes a problem where stories containing hyperlinks with ampersands in the url would fail to export to Google Docs.
  • Fixes a problem where empty paragraphs were being inserted ahead of frame breaks generated from Google Docs page breaks.

New in DocsFlow 2.2.1 (Aug 21, 2014)

  • Fixes the story status indicator on the DocsFlow link icon so that it now updates immediately when a story is edited.

New in DocsFlow 2.2 (Aug 6, 2014)

  • Adds support for back-saving to older versions of InDesign via IDML, for storing DocsFlow-linked stories in library elements, and for preserving DocsFlow links through drag’n’dropped snippets and when using DocsFlow-linked stories with InCopy.
  • Adds a handy story status indicator to the DocsFlow link icon.
  • When a + appears on the DocsFlow link icon, it means that the associated InDesign story has been modified in some way since it was imported or last updated. (CS6+ only)
  • Fixes a problem where the Export dialog’s column headers weren’t re-sizing with the dialog. (CC/CC2014 only)
  • Fixes a problem where exporting a minimal story to Google Docs might not always work.
  • Fixes a problem where updating after deleting and then recovering table rows or columns might fail.

New in DocsFlow 2.1.2 (Jul 21, 2014)

  • Fixes a problem where running out of memory during a link update could cause InDesign to shut down. Now, the update is canceled and an out-of-memory alert is displayed.

New in DocsFlow 2.1.1 (Jul 16, 2014)

  • Adds support for InDesign CC 2014. The CC 2014 plug-in is a free update from CC that requires a valid DocsFlow CC-level or CC 2014-level (version 9 or 10) license. Please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license from a pre-CC plug-in or to see if you qualify for a free upgrade.
  • Improves support of Google Drives containing many, many folders.
  • Fixes a problem where unnamed colors could be lost during an update.
  • Fixes a problem where an import error might not be reported.
  • Fixes a problem where canceling the Import Options dialog would result in an error alert.

New in DocsFlow 2.1.0 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • Improves ODF support, adds support for exporting InDesign’s various story breaks, and improves overall stability.
  • Changes:
  • Allows the placement of ODF files during direct (username and password) sign in sessions.
  • Exports InDesign column-, frame-, and page-breaks as Google Document page-breaks.
  • Works around a newly introduced Google server bug which causes an error (KeyError: ‘ownerNames’) when trying to retrieve the Drive’s contents.
  • Works around an InDesign bookmark problem that could cause a crash during a (later) PDF export.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story containing a picture could damage the story’s Google Document link, resulting in a “damaged link” alert or a “base snapshot missing” alert.
  • Prevents the loss of footnote changes in InDesign when a large portion of the footnote has been deleted in the linked Google Document.
  • Prevents line-break characters from being replaced in InDesign and appearing as changes in the Story Editor.

New in DocsFlow 2.0.11 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Fixes a packaging problem that could cause updates of DocsFlow with Extension Manager to fail, or could cause Extension Manager to install DocsFlow incorrectly, such that it would be listed in Extension Manager but then be missing from InDesign. (Mac only)

New in DocsFlow 2.0.10 (Mar 6, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Fixes a problem where the link status of a GDrive document placed via File > Place or drag’n'drop wouldn’t update, leaving the link saying it was up-to-date even after the linked Google Docs document had been modified.
  • Fixes a rare problem that could prevent a story from being exported.

New in DocsFlow 2.0.9 (Feb 22, 2014)

  • Removes a limitation on the number of Google Docs documents displayed in the Place dialog.
  • Fixes a problem introduced in 2.0.8 where an update could cause a table row or column that had been deleted in InDesign to reappear for no reason.
  • Fixes a problem where an update could introduce an empty cell to the right of spanned table cells.
  • Fixes the export of documents containing embedded indexes.
  • Fixes the export of forced line breaks.
  • Adds notification for a rare situation where an InDesign action can damage a DocsFlow-based story’s link.

New in DocsFlow 2.0.8 (Jan 22, 2014)

  • Replaces references to Original in all DocsFlow menus with Google Docs Document. So now, for example, you’ll find entries like Visit in Google Docs and Update Google Docs Document rather than the previous (and sometimes indeterminate) Visit Original and Update Original. We hope this change makes using these DocsFlow features easier to find and more obvious to use. As an aside, please note that the difference between Visit in Google Docs and Edit in Google Docs is that, like InDesign’s own Edit Original, Edit in Google Docs will attempt to automatically update the link when you next return to InDesign, whereas Visit will not.
  • Fixes a problem where the size of a placed Google Docs document would always display as 0 bytes in the Links panel’s Link Info section.
  • Fixes a problem where using Update Google Docs Document on a link that was created by exporting the story to Google Docs could cause the link to disappear.
  • Fixes a problem where the link status after an Update Google Docs Document could be incorrect.
  • Fixes a problem where an Update Google Docs Document of one link would leave all links to that same Google Docs document showing as up-to-date. Now, when there are multiple links to the same Google Docs document, only the one used to update the Google Docs document is marked as up-to-date; remaining links are left marked as modified.
  • Fixes a problem where Update Google Docs Document could fail when exporting a story using nested styles.
  • Works around some occasional Google Revisions service failures that were sometimes preventing documents from being updated.

New in DocsFlow 2.0.7 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • Improves how table conflicts are handled during updates, where a table row or column that’s been deleted on one side of the link is now retained (or resurrected) if the text content of any of its constituent cells has been changed on the other. The resulting “zombie” row/column will contain conflict markers to indicate the edited cells.
  • Fixes formatting problems when multiple Google Docs styles are mapped to the same InDesign style.
  • Fixes a problem where merge conflicts could cause an update to fail.
  • Fixes a problem where Update Original followed by a regular Update Link could cause the loss of any Notes in the story.
  • Fixes a problem where a paragraph styled with [No Paragraph Style] could cause Update Original to fail.
  • Fixes a problem where using Update Original with a very long story could cause the update to fail.
  • Fixes a problem where using Update Original with a story containing inline or anchored items could the update to fail.
  • Fixes a problem where using Update Original with a story containing right-justified text could cause the update to fail.

New in DocsFlow 2.0.6 (Nov 2, 2013)

  • Adds support for InDesign CC. The CC plug-in requires a valid DocsFlow CC-level license. Please contact our sales department to purchase an upgrade license or obtain a free upgrade if you purchased DocsFlow on or after January 1, 2013.
  • Enables the export of documents containing cross-references, with cross-references output as plain text.
  • Fixes a problem that could cause updates with many table cell changes to fail.
  • Fixes occasional loss of styling within tables and anchored text frames.
  • Fixes a problem where a document with deleted style groups could cause an update to fail.

New in DocsFlow 2.0.5 (Sep 17, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Splits the product into Pro and no-Pro levels. A Pro-level license is now required to import Google spreadsheets and to use any of 2.0′s new export machinery. See notes above for licensing details.
  • Adds File > DocsFlow > Export to Google Docs… and a variant, File > DocsFlow > Export to Google Docs and Visit…, which adds a visit to the newly created Google Docs document after its export, which sends the selected (and currently not otherwise linked) story to the active Google Docs account and then creates a link to it. A new Export to Google Docs dialog displays the account’s existing documents and folders, allows the selection of a destination folder, and accepts a name for the exported document. This export facility creates a true “poor man’s workflow” where stories can be created and “assigned out” from InDesign to Google Docs, with links that make them ready to receive updates in both directions.
  • Adds a DocsFlow submenu to the Links panel menu that contains the renamed Visit Original Document (was previously Edit Original without Auto Update), which will take you to the original Google Docs document without forcibly updating the link when you return to InDesign.
  • Adds a set of Update Original Document entries to the Links panel menu’s DocsFlow submenu which will export and merge any changes in the InDesign story to the linked Google Docs document. We think this is done in a particularly clever fashion, such that on export to an existing story, DocsFlow performs a three-way merge (just like when updating in the other direction). DocsFlow thus attempts to leave the formatting of the Google Docs document intact, updating only the content, unless your import options are such that Google Docs formatting is obeyed.
  • Adds a full, “tree”-style view of your Google Docs files to the Place with DocsFlow dialog (and to the new export dialogs). The normal InDesign expand-all and collapse-all shortcuts work there for quick navigation (Ctrl/Cmd-click the triangle icon).
  • Allows the placement of multiple documents from the Place with DocsFlow dialog and via drag-and-drop. Each selected or dropped document is loaded into InDesign’s place gun, which can then be used to place each linked document in sequence.
  • Adds a DocsFlow link icon to the frames of all Google Docs-linked stories. The icon will show for newly imported, updated, and exported stories but not, unfortunately, for existing DocsFlow stories.
  • Adds support for the placement of OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODF documents and spreadsheets that are stored in Google Drive.
  • Adds DocsFlow-related entries to a story’s various context menus.
  • Adds conflict markers, displayed as InDesign Notes, to show where DocsFlow resolved a merge conflict that may require additional attention.
  • Works around an InDesign bug where updating a story containing custom-anchored frames would cause InDesign to shut down.
  • Improves the reliability of browser-based (OAuth) connections. Browser-based connections are preferred and allow DocsFlow to provide a faster, more stable Google Docs experience.
  • Improves the resolution of merge conflicts by letting the source text always “win” for content order and the target text always “win” for formatting. For example, when updating an InDesign story from Google Docs, if the same piece of text has been moved in both, then DocsFlow will let the Google Docs text, as the merge’s source, determine the location of the resulting piece of text in the merged InDesign story. Similarly, if both have style changes to the same piece of text, then DocsFlow will let the InDesign story, as the merge’s target, determine how the resulting piece of text is styled. As noted above, a conflict marker (in the form of an InDesign Note) will be inserted at the location of any such conflict.Likewise, when updating a Google Docs document from an InDesign story using Update Original, DocsFlow will let the InDesign text, the merge’s source, dictate conflicting text’s merged position, while the Google Docs text, the merge’s target, will determine how conflicting styles are resolved.
  • Improves character style-level conflict handling.
  • Imports Google Docs’s Normal text paragraph style as InDesign’s [Basic Paragraph] by default.
  • Adds support for “line height” along with an Import Option to disable it.
  • Adds settings for ignoring underline, strike-through, superscript, and subscript character attributes to the Import Options dialog.
  • Removes the option to suppress change mark generation when updating a story.
  • Improves the handling of quote, hyphen, and non-breaking space characters during merges.
  • Fixes a problem where the login dialog would default to a direct-style connection even if the previous connection was via browser.
  • Fixes the mysterious reappearance of replaced styles after updating an InDesign story.
  • Fixes a problem where page breaks added to a linked Google Docs document could be ignored when updating the InDesign story.
  • Fixes a problem where some deletions weren’t being displayed in the Story Editor.
  • Fixes a problem where deleted hyperlinks could cause a merge to hang.

New in DocsFlow 2.0 Beta 4 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • Adds support for the placement of OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODF documents and spreadsheets that are stored in Google Drive.
  • Allows the placement of multiple documents from the Place with DocsFlow dialog and via drag-and-drop. Each selected or dropped document is loaded into InDesign’s place gun, which can then be used to place each linked document individually.
  • Fixes a problem with the Place with DocsFlow dialog where it could sometimes show deleted documents.
  • Fixes a problem where the Login dialog would default to a direct-style connection even if the previous connection was via browser.

New in DocsFlow 2.0 Beta 3 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • Adds support for Pro-level licenses. A Pro license is now required to import Google spreadsheets and to use any of 2.0′s new export machinery. See notes above for licensing details.
  • Adds settings for ignoring underline, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript character attributes to the Import Options dialog.
  • Adds a DocsFlow icon to the frame of all Google Docs-linked stories.
  • Fixes a problem with exported stories where InDesign-only elements (like index entries) were disappearing with the next update.
  • Fixes the Edit Original and Visit Original items within DocsFlow menus so that they’re only enabled for DocsFlow-managed links.

New in DocsFlow 1.6.1 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Fixes a conflict, when DocsFlow was used with our WordFlow plug-in, that could cause InDesign to shut down.
  • Changes how conflicts are resolved during story updates such that InDesign style changes that conflict with style changes made in the Google Docs document now “win.”
  • Fixes updating to retain the previous style on replaced text.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story could lose the style on the story’s last paragraph.
  • Fixes a crash when collapsing neighboring paragraphs containing only page breaks.
  • Fixes a rare problem where a style remnant within a change mark could cause a crash.
  • Trims empty trailing table columns/rows when updating tables.
  • Improves the reliability of table updates in the presence of row/column insertions.
  • Fixes a problem where updating would ignore a change to a cell’s style-mapped background color.
  • Fixes a problem where the paragraph style inside a table could leak into the containing paragraph.

New in DocsFlow 2.0 Beta 2 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Fixes a problem where page breaks added to a linked Google Docs document could be ignored when updating the InDesign story.
  • Fixes a problem where mapped styles exported with a story could clobber each other.
  • Fixes a problem where updating to Google Docs could fail with an alert if the linked Google Docs document had just been changed.

New in DocsFlow 2.0 Beta 1 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Adds File > DocsFlow > Export to Google Docs… and a variant, File > DocsFlow > Export to Google Docs and Visit…, which adds a visit to the newly created Google Docs document after its export, which sends the selected (and currently not otherwise linked) story to the active Google Docs account and then creates a link to it. A new Export to Google Docs dialog displays the account’s existing documents and folders, allows the selection of a destination folder, and accepts a name for the exported document. This export facility creates a true “poor man’s workflow” where stories can be created and “assigned out” from InDesign to Google Docs, with links that make them ready to receive updates in both directions.
  • Adds a DocsFlow submenu to the Links panel menu that contains the renamed Visit Original Document (was previously Edit Original without Auto Update), which will take you to the original Google Docs document without forcibly updating the link when you return to InDesign.
  • Adds a set of Update Original Document entries to the Links panel menu’s DocsFlow submenu which will export and merge any changes in the InDesign story to the linked Google Docs document. We’re particularly proud of this feature, because on export to an existing story, DocsFlow performs a three-way merge (just like when updating in the other direction). DocsFlow attempts to leave the formatting of the Google Docs document intact, updating only the content, unless your import options are such that Google Docs formatting is obeyed.
  • Adds a full, “tree”-style view of your Google Docs files to the Place dialog (and to the new export dialogs). The normal InDesign expand-all and collapse-all shortcuts work there for quick navigation (Ctrl/Cmd-click the triangle icon).
  • Adds DocsFlow-related entries to a story’s various context menus.
  • Adds conflict markers, displayed as InDesign notes, to show where DocsFlow resolved a merge conflict that may require additional attention.
  • Improves the reliability of browser-based (OAuth) connections.
  • Adds support for “line height” along with an Import Option to disable it.
  • Trims empty trailing table columns/rows when updating tables.
  • Changes how conflicts are resolved during story updates such that InDesign style changes that conflict with style changes made in the Google Docs document now “win.”
  • Removes the option to suppress change mark generation when updating a story.
  • Fixes a conflict, when DocsFlow was used with our WordFlow plug-in, that was causing a crash.
  • Fixes a crash when collapsing neighboring paragraphs containing only page breaks.
  • Fixes updating to retain the previous style on replaced text.
  • Fixes the mysterious reappearance of replaced styles after updating an InDesign story.
  • Fixes a rare problem where a style remnant within a change mark could cause a crash.
  • Fixes a problem where updating a story could lose the style on the story’s last paragraph.
  • Fixes a problem where updating would ignore a change to a cell’s style-mapped background color.
  • Fixes a problem where the paragraph style inside a table could leak into the containing paragraph.

New in DocsFlow 1.6 (Mar 22, 2013)

  • Improves the handling of text differences where only the case has changed.
  • Improves greatly the handling of tables, table movement, row/column movement, and cell movement and spanning during updates.
  • Fixes a problem which was causing the Track Changes panel to display random time stamps after an update.
  • Addresses an issue where index entries could, in rare instances, be lost during updates.
  • Addresses an issue where updating a document containing cross-references could cause InDesign to shut down.
  • Fixes a problem where table cell attributes could be lost during an update.
  • Fixes a problem where updating with common changes in both the InDesign story and the linked document could cause InDesign to shut down.

New in DocsFlow 1.5 (Feb 4, 2013)

  • Adds support for placing Google Drive documents and spreadsheets via both drag’n'drop and the File > Place dialog.
  • Adds access to the document’s default import options via File > DocsFlow > Set Import Options. You can now use this dialog to preset your import options and style mappings before using drag’n'drop to place your Google Docs-based documents and spreadsheets.
  • Adds support for cross references and bookmarks within imported stories.
  • Adds conversion of Google Docs page breaks to InDesign frame breaks.
  • Adds support for drag’n'drop from Google Apps accounts.
  • Improves the quality of tables and document updating.
  • Prevents update failures in some uncommon situations.
  • Fixes a problem where InDesign styling was being removed if styles were lost in the external document.
  • Fixes a problem where errors resulting from a drag’n'drop operation weren’t being displayed in Mac OS X.

New in DocsFlow 6/7/8.1.4.8 (Nov 14, 2012)

  • Fix the loss of a story’s Google Docs connection when the story is copy’n'pasted or duplicated.
  • Fix a problem with paragraph collapsing and blank lines in notes and footnotes.
  • Improve the handling of large content changes.
  • Work around an InDesign problem that would lose index entries during updates.

New in DocsFlow 6/7/8.1.4.7 (Oct 25, 2012)

  • This release supports placing public documents even when not in the user’s account, and fixes a slew of minor bugs.
  • Changes:
  • Improve support for linking to public Google Docs documents.
  • Fixed multiple problems with footnotes.
  • Fixed an issue where spurious spaces were sometimes added to the text, especially inside footnotes.
  • Fixed a bug where empty table cells could lose their text style during a merge.

New in DocsFlow 6/7/8.1.4.6 (Oct 5, 2012)

  • This patch release addresses Mac OS X 10.7 & 10.8 installation issues and improves link handling.

New in DocsFlow 6/7/8.1.4.5 (Aug 29, 2012)

  • Fixed a problem where spreadsheets could no longer be imported.
  • Fixed a problem where a paragraph’s space before and space after settings were being ignored.
  • Fixed problems with color style mapping.

New in DocsFlow 6/7/8.1.4.4 (Aug 22, 2012)

  • Fixed a problem where pasting text into a linked story could cause styling to be lost with the next update.

New in DocsFlow 6/7/8.1.4.3 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • Fixed a problem where updating a document containing line breaks could fail with an error message.
  • Improved the speed of document updates.

New in DocsFlow 7/8.1.4.2 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • Fixed a problem where the “Normal Text” style couldn’t be mapped.
  • Fixed a problem where documents removed in Google Docs were still showing in DocsFlow’s Place dialog.
  • Improved the handling of documents with images.

New in DocsFlow 7/8.1.4.1 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • Added support for InDesign CS6.
  • Added links for images within imported documents. This allows FPO (“for position only”) graphics within placed documents to be easily re-linked to their higher-resolution production files.
  • Improved the reliability of updates.
  • Fixed a rare hang that could occur during an update.
  • Fixed a problem where the wrong style was sometimes applied during an update.
  • Fixed a problem where headers were sometimes being incorrectly mapped to “Normal”.
  • Fixed a problem where “Right Indent” and “First Line Indent” properties were being lost.

New in DocsFlow 8.1.4 Beta 2 (Jun 12, 2012)

  • Improved the reliability of updates.
  • Fixed a rare hang that could occur during an update.
  • Fixed a problem where the wrong style was sometimes applied during an update.

New in DocsFlow 6/7.1.4 (May 2, 2012)

  • Added support for browser-based authentication (OAuth 2) in the redesigned Sign In dialog.
  • Added an Edit Original without Auto Update menu item which behaves like InDesign’s own Edit Original but without Edit Original‘s automatic update afterwards. Meaning, it will start you off editing the link, but any changes you make while editing will not automatically be taken when you return to InDesign. Note that this action remains available for any kind of link, not just DocsFlow links.
  • Added a shift-key modifier to the Links panel’s Edit Original button. When a Shift key is held down and the Edit Original button is pressed, the link is edited as if Edit Original without Auto Update had been selected.
  • Added support for the Google Docs ruler’s First Line Indent and Right Indent settings.
  • Improved the speed with which the Place From Google Docs dialog displays. Improved it rather drastically, actually.
  • Improved the management of documents containing many GDocs document links.
  • Fixed a problem where canceling an operation could cause a long pause.
  • Fixed a problem where copying a placed story would make it un-updatable.
  • Fixed a problem where updating with a GDocs document containing empty comments could fail.
  • Fixed an issue with the Links panel menu where the Relink File Extension option wasn’t being disabled for Google Docs links. (CS5+ only)

New in DocsFlow 6/7.1.3.1 (Apr 16, 2012)

  • Makes staying signed in while working with documents containing many GDocs document links much more possible, and also addresses problems with mis-mapped styles, paragraph spacing and dates in spreadsheets.

New in DocsFlow 6/7.1.3 (Mar 20, 2012)

  • Added support for drag-and-dropped GDocs spreadsheet URLs (you must be logged in to GDocs from DocsFlow to the same account from which you’re dragging).
  • Added an Ignore font family, font size, and font color checkbox to the Import Options dialog, which, when selected, prevents undesirable or hard-to-detect type changes from creeping into a placed document.
  • Added support for mapping the “Title” and “Subtitle” Google Docs paragraph styles.
  • Added progress bars for long imports.
  • Improved the speed of document imports and merges.
  • Improved support for very long documents.
  • Improved style mapping for imports and merges.
  • Improved support for numbered lists.
  • Improved support for spanned table cells.
  • Fixed a number of document import and merge issues.
  • Fixed a problem where a bookmark at the top of the GDoc would cause the import to fail.
  • Fixed a problem that prevented colons from being used in style names.

New in DocsFlow 6/7.1.2.1 (Jan 14, 2012)

  • Fixed a problem which could cause a crash when switching back to InDesign after using Edit Original to access a Google Docs document.
  • Fixed a problem where acquiring the Google Docs document list could cause a crash while attempting to display the Place Google Docs Documents dialog.

New in DocsFlow 6/7.1.2 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Added support for placing spreadsheets. (Pro only)
  • Added support for drag-and-dropped GDocs document URLs (if you’re already logged into the same account in DocsFlow as you’re logged into in Google Docs).
  • Added support for deeply-nested styles and style groups.
  • Added support for table border and cell background colors.
  • Added ability to map text colors to character styles.
  • Added mapping for table, cell and object styles.
  • Added [Default] preset to Import Options dialog.
  • Improved merging of text and inline tables.
  • Expanded error alerts to contain more information about the failure.
  • Fixed a problem where colors weren’t being imported properly. (CS4 only)
  • Fixed a problem where tabs, tab positions and some types of spaces were being lost during placement.
  • Fixed a problem where some documents wouldn’t show in the Place dialog.
  • Fixed a problem where a copied story would no longer update properly.

New in DocsFlow 6/7.1 (Sep 27, 2011)

  • Added support for Adobe InDesign CS4, available as a separate, CS4-specific download.
  • Greatly improved support for tables import and merging.
  • Added footnote style mapping with a new Footnotes entry in the Import Options dialog’s Paragraph Styles tab.
  • Improved link status synchronization around application switch-ins and Google Docs login changes.
  • Improved the handling of the most recently used import options, which now travel with the document. New documents also start out with the default set of import options.

New in DocsFlow 7.0 (Sep 6, 2011)

  • First stable release.

New in DocsFlow 7.0 Beta 4 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • Improved style merging for text insertions on the Google Docs side, where the surrounding style was manually applied in InDesign (a fairly common case).
  • Fixed and improved support for hyperlinks.
  • Fixed problems with the updating of stories placed into pre-existing text frames.
  • Fixed a problem where updating a document containing comments could cause InDesign to crash.
  • Fixed a problem where the updating of the Link panel’s modified status would stop working until InDesign was restarted.
  • Fixed a problem where the “Collapse all empty paragraphs” option was being ignored.
  • Fixed a problem with the Place dialog where the document list wasn’t refreshing when the user account was changed.

New in DocsFlow 7.0 Beta 3 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • Added an Import Options dialog with general options and style mapping, invoked by selecting the checkbox of the same name in the Place from Google Docs dialog.
  • Improved the import and merging of lists and pictures.
  • Fixed the handling of shared Google Docs.
  • Improved the stability and quality of imports and merges.

New in DocsFlow 7.0 Beta 2 (Jul 26, 2011)

  • Improved the stability of content merges during updates.
  • Auto-generated styles now use long names (“Paragraph” instead of “p”). (Real style mapping will be introduced in beta 3.)
  • Fixed the handling of document-side insertions that were being moved during updates.