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Auto resizing of images in Indesign - it's called Sizewyse
Would anyone be interested in the following (OSX only until April '06):
When you place an image, or images inside InDesign, no matter what the size in pixel dimension, DPI or file format, software automatically goes out to Photoshop and resizes the pixel dimension, resamples the DPI and saves out as a native PSD file, and crops out excess image data (hidden by frame), and counter rotates the files, and much more. You can imagine that if you placed an image in a page at 7%, rotated it 3 degrees, that it would be a pretty big .ps file if there were several of these over a page, spread or long document. The sotware even resolves duplicate files and will not touch master/archive stock images if the images are in a directory that is listed as a protected directory.
It also has an option to remove all unused colours in the Indesign file, and from any placed Illustrator files, including converting all spots to process in InDesign and Illustrator, and even gives a message at the end of processing to let you know if there are RGB images placed.
We use this software on every single job we do (about 45,000 pages per year) and it saves us a truckload of time. We wrote the software, and it will be avilalbe for commecrial release in December. I would appreciate feedback on what this may be worth to companies who process truckloads of images, and how beneficial it would be.
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