GreenLight Version History

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 2025.0.2

1. Amendments to Create Cover dialog
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   • Page count removed from create cover dialog
   • RRP price added to create dialog
   • Page count and spine width removed from the suggested filename when prompting to save a newly generated cover
2. New check ISBN artwork matches stated ISBN
3. New check Filename matches stated ISBN‍
4. New check RRP on page matches stated RRP‍

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

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
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   • 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
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   • 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

2. New Export command Show / hide info for proofing
3. 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.
4. 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 GreenLight 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. New check ISBN artwork matches stated ISBN
2. Amendments to Create Cover dialog
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   • RRP price added to create dialog
   • Integration with Teacup BarcodeMaker for auto updating professionally styled barcodes
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

New in 2024.0.17

1. SIDD connections updated in the Import image descriptions tool

New in 2024.0.16

1. Brand new users are now registered correctly after sign up
2. Trim objects extend to bleed check now unlocks and unhides objects when necessary in order to reveal them
3. Improvement to SIDD connections for larger MasterPlan clients using the Prepare images for description tool

New in 2024.0.15

1. Trim objects extend to bleed check now unlocks and unhides objects when necessary in order to reveal them

New in 2024.0.9

1. Bug fix for a recently introduced export location error
2. Progress bar has more useful and less sarcastic messages

New in 2024.0.8

1. Better support for amending covers first made from GreenLight pre 2023.1
2. Quarter bound jacket elements now remain separated to allow for bleed to be applied on front cover, back cover and quarter bound spine artworks
3. Version information now links to User Pages‍
4. Improved method for tracking time based licensing for GreenLight PRO
5. Reading Order and Image Descriptions tools updated from CircularFLO 2024.0.6

New in 2024.0.0

1. Tested and updated for InDesign 2024 and macOS 14 Sonoma
2. Internal user data now linking to newly update site
3. Licensing checks move to post January 2024.0 method