How to Update Adobe CS5 plugins:
Today, we're going to learn how to update those Adobe InDesign CS5 plugins,
but first of all, what is a plugin?
Well, we read here the InDesign plugin modules are software programs developed by the Adobe Systems and
other software developers, third-party software developers, working in conjunction
with Adobe
to add features
to Adobe software.
A number of importing,
exporting,
automation and special effects plug-ins come with your program,
and automatically are installed in the plugins folder.
Let's go look at that over there, in the Adobe Applications folder, right now.
Okay, so on this Mac here in the Applications folder,
and I cruise into Adobe InDesign CS5,
and inside Adobe InDesign CS5, you see several folders,
one which is the plugins folder just mentioned in the
Help page on the Adobe.com site.
So, if you click on this Plug-Ins folder,
Once again, we're in CS5, the CS5 Plug-Ins folder.
We see, inside of there, several different subfolders.
So, how do we get
third-party plug-ins? How do we add
features and functions to Adobe InDesign, without plugging into Adobe
themselves?
Let's go check that out. Okay, I'm over here
at a third-party developer for CS5 plugins called Markzware,
markzware.com
and we make several plugins and xtensions for InDesign
and other DTP applications: Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.
We cruise on into one
particular Adobe
InDesign CS5
plugin
which is Q2ID.
We can there read that Q2ID imports Quark files into InDesign. It'll open Quark
files in InDesign.
So, this is a very handy
CS5 plugin.
So, we can buy that now
and, once we get this product,
we'll install it and show you how it looks in
the Adobe CS5 Plug-Ins folder.
Here's an example of an Adobe
InDesign CS5.5 plugin.
You see the .InDesignPlugin gives it away as an Adobe InDesign CS5 plugin,
in this case.
We see different versions
of InDesign plugins, as well.
Let's look add this into our InDesign folder
under the Plug-Ins and Filters folder and see how that works. Okay, so, now we've added or used
the third-party developer's installer to install the plugin,
and, in this case, we'll go under Filters in the Plug-Ins folder,
and we'll see in there are several other plugins. You'll notice that they all have the
.InDesignPlugin extension.
And you'll see that one of those
is the one we just showed you from Markzware Q2ID v5.5
plugin for CS5.5,
and this plugin will now show up within our Adobe InDesign CS5
application.
So, that is
how you can update Adobe InDesign CS5 plugins, by simply reinstalling
a version of that plugin, in this case, we get a fresh install.
Alright, how does it look inside InDesign?
How does this update of Adobe InDesign CS5 plugin look once we've launched Adobe InDesign?
Let's go check it out.
So, here we are within InDesign,
where you will
see updated
Adobe InDesign CS5 plugins and where you'll need to install them.
It really depends on the manufacturer.
InDesign CS5 plugins can be built to work in the background with InDesign.
Markzware, in this case, adds a Markzware menu item up top in the InDesign menu
item.
So, you see this
updated InDesign CS5 plugin shows up right within InDesign.
Alright, everybody.
This has been the how-to
update
InDesign CS5
plugins.
I hope it's been helpful.
It's quite a simple process. You simply must just go to the developer,
to Adobe's webpage,
and find the updated version of that plugin.
And basically, generally do a fresh install or update
or reinstall the plugin.
Plugins are very useful. They can help you enhance Adobe InDesign incredibly,
saving you even more time and money.
This is David Dilling from Markzware on
how to
update
Adobe InDesign CS5 plugins.