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Finding the right plugin

All released versions and release notes for our Adobe InDesign plugin can be found here:

InDesign Plugins

Installing the plugin

1. First find the correct plugin that matches the version of Adpoint installed on your system

2. If you do not already have the latest Anastasiy’s Extension Manager installed, please download and install it from here: Anastasiy’s Extension Manager.

3. Quit any running instances of InDesign

4. Open Anastasiy’s Extension Manager on your PC or Mac and select InDesign in the Adobe Products column:
   

   

5. If there is already an extension called http://com.integrationx.client installed, then select it and click Remove from the menu. You may get prompted to enter your local system password to the accept the removal.

6. Click Install and select the plugin file which was downloaded in point 2 above. This will install the plugin. You may get prompted to enter your local system password to the accept installation.

7. Quit Anastasiy’s Extension Manager 2

8. Open InDesign

Configuring the plugin

1. In ADPOINT, go to the Admin menu and select “Reset InDesign Folder“.
   You will be prompted to select the directory where the plugin will store its files.
   The path must be: [username]/adpoint
   If the ‘/adpoint adpoint’ folder does not exist in the [username] folder please create it.
   Click the Select Folder button once the dialog points to the [username]/adpoint folder.

2. Select any print production order. Open the Actions Menu and select “Open in InDesign”

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3. You will be prompted to let ADPOINT view files in the folder assigned above.
   Click the View files buttons to accept.

4. You will also be prompted to save changes.
   Also accept this by clicking the Save Changes button.

5. Now the connection between ADPOINT 7.11 HTML and InDesign is established

Using the InDesign plugin from ADPOINT X1

The InDesign plugin for ADPOINT X1 is used to open print orders in InDesign. It works with orders that have already been opened in InDesign and where an InDesign document exists as well as orders where an InDesign file does not exist yet.

Launching ADPOINT and InDesign applications

1. Launch ADPOINT in your Chrome browser and log in

2. Launch InDesign

Opening InDesign documents from ADPOINT

1. In ADPOINT, find the order that you want to open. Open the Actions Context Menu and select “Open in InDesign”

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   From time to time, you may experience the following warning is shown:

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   This is a warning that ADPOINT requires access to files that are stored locally on your local drive.

   Please accept this by clicking “Edit files”.

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2. The InDesign document now opens in the InDesign application where it can be edited
   

3. In the InDesign application the plugin is controlled through the plugin panel:
   

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Features of the plugin

The buttons on the plug in panel works as follows:

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