WoodWing has become one of the first to announce Adobe CC-compatible versions of its plug-ins… and yes, you can acquire them by subscription.
A new version of the Smart Styles productivity plug-in also includes new features, in addition to compatibility with InDesign CC and InCopy CC. WoodWing says it will also provide a new version of its Enterprise multichannel publishing system this year, supporting Creative Cloud products.
Users of Smart Styles can drag a formatted object into its library panel and then apply the same formatting to other elements. Smart Styles CC features include support of Liquid Layout rules and actions applied to buttons, both of which speed up the creation process in digital publishing. It also makes use of the QR code features offered by InDesign CC.
Additional options have been added when resizing text frames with columns, and there are extyra export options for Alt text, Tagged PDF, EPUB and HTML.
President Erik Schut says Adobe’s decision to offer its Creative Suite applications in a subscription model is a major change in how their products are sold and upgraded: “For a number of years, we have also offered the option to use all our software in a subscription model.