GreenLight PRO Prerelease

Circular Software apps are regularly tested and updated. GreenLight PRO users are invited to test and use the next version of GreenLight in advance of the general release.

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GreenLight PRO 2025.0

Coming in 2025.0.12

  1. Reading order tools updated in sync with CircularFLO 2025.0.5

New in 2025.0.9

  1. Reinstated Book Name and Project ID (book code) in the Book Info dialog appearing for all documents
  2. New commands Create Document and Amend Document added, aimed at quickly setting up internal pages
  3. New Create menu added to split from the creation and amend commands from Run menu
  4. Tools menu moved to right in menu bar after the Create and Run menus

New in 2025.0.8

  1. Improvements when pulling metadata from older Greenlit internal files
  2. Reinstated the Book Name and Project ID (book code) to the Book Info dialog
  3. Better support for updating older Greenlit cover files
  4. Fix to continue to make translation file sets on documents with locked layers
  5. Text is not overset check now gives more info when locating overset text on hidden text frames

New in 2025.0.7

  1. Add Special Finishes offered as an extra option when creating new covers. If checked, user then chooses which special finsihes to add from a list
  2. New command Run menu > Add Special Finishes to introduce spot colours and layers at any part of the process
  3. Create / Alter Cover command split into Create Cover and Amend Cover to allow new covers to be created when existing ones are open

New in 2025.0.1

  1. Amendments to image descriptions tools and reading order tools
  2. Auto define reading order tool now ignores empty frames, unsassigned frames and text on a path
  3. Toggle printing of image descriptions commandnow includes reading order
  4. Add / update image descriptions tool now respects when images that are already marked as decorative in InDesign
  5. Add / update image descriptions tool is better at marking anchored objects
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GreenLight PRO 2024.1

New in 2024.1.14

  1. New method to detect and reset mismatched reading order and image description IDs
  2. Amendments to image descriptions tools and reading order tools
  3. Auto define reading order tool now ignores empty frames, unsassigned frames and text on a path
  4. Description package spreadsheet method updates
    • Exporting existing descriptions out from InDesign
    • Support for regions on export and import
    • Positional PDFs now showing regions & reading order markers
    • Positional PDF overlays the images / regions with their IDs
    • If a PDF preset named GreenLight_Positional_PDF exists for user's InDesign then it is preferred when exporting Positional PDF
  5. Toggle printing of image descriptions commandnow includes reading order

New in 2024.1.12

  1. Amendment to Links are present and up to date check to accommodate CMS images with no link info present
  2. Tested with macOS 15 Sequoia
  3. Added new Export command Toggle printing of image descriptions to choose whether to exporting image description markers when proofing
  4. Added new Export command Remove alt text codes. This helps users of the GreenLight image description tools when exporting to for PDF and reflowable EPUB directly from InDesign.

New in 2024.1.11

  1. New Fresh Page tools Tools menu command and panel

    • Introduce Core Styles to document syncs with a live list of Paragraph, Character and Object Styles the Fresh Page Cores Styles
    • Create Language Shift styles adds selected languages as extra character styles
    • Create Font Style styles adds all existing names for fot styling in the document as extra character styles
    • List all text styles on pasteboard creates a single text frame containing all Paragraph & Character styles in the document, ready for exporting to Word
    • Create style mapping import preset saves a Word Import mapping preset matching the structure of the Word and InDesign document
    • Apply current styling to existing style to streamline the application of the Cores Styles to existing documents
    • Sort all style panels to quickly alphabetically sort Paragraph, Character and Object Styles panels
The Fresh Page Tools panel as described above
  1. New Export command Show / hide info for proofing
  2. Remove alt text codes to remove the extra codes used by CircularFLO. This helps users of the GreenLight image description tools when exporting to for PDF and reflowable EPUB directly from InDesign.
  3. All Accessibility Tools in GreenLight now operate without the need for CircularFLO to be present on the Mac

New in 2024.1.9

  1. Added Lamination and Spec Levels to Cover creation and amendment dialogs
  2. Added Lamination and Spec Levels to GreenLight Cover Panel
  3. Removing unneeded rows from GreenLight Cover Panel to save space e.g. removing Brass and Case overhang for Paperbacks
  4. Altering SPOTUV to SPOT UV to better suit CPI. Amended in cover templates, in Spots are layered and overprint check, in PDF Exporting and updated the File Creation Policy

New in 2024.1.7

  1. When pushing out GreenLighjt PRO settings to new installs GreenLight now checks that colour settings files have arrived and, if not, opens the folder in Finder with more info on how to fix folder permissions
  2. Cover info panel better positioned and labels are no longer running to two lines
  3. Folder opening after export to reveal PDFs improved
  4. Combine PDFs command updated

New in 2024.1.5

  1. Book Info is now shown in a new Book Info Panel on the pasteboard to the left of the first spread
  2. Book Info is initially set using the same Add / Amend Book Info command
  3. Data in the Book Info Panel is live and can be amending directly in the panel or with the Add / Amend Book Info command
  4. Adaptation to Correct layer naming and structure (Final) & Document is named correctly to expect MONO section identifier and Book Info Panel

New in 2024.1.2

  1. Amendments to Create Cover dialogs
    • RRP price added to create dialog
    • Integration with Teacup BarcodeMaker for auto updating professionally styled barcodes
  2. New check ISBN artwork matches stated ISBN
  3. New check Artwork price matches stated price
  4. Speed increase when starting the greenlight process
  5. Extra panel added for info specific to printed inside covers
  6. Special finishes list in GreenLight Book Cover Panel is updated when the GreenLight process runs
  7. Rewrite of the cover creation and update process to cater for more alignment and positioning options for imprint elements