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The SoftCare Overset Manager Plug-in for Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy CS2 or CS3 gives complete control over text length and text overset, enabling the user to count, display, edit, and print overset text. It increases production security by warning if the document contains overset when the user prints or exports a file. SoftCare Overset Manager is the ideal tool for every user dealing with text-intensive files on a regular basis.With SoftCare Overset Manager, see at a glance if a file contains overset and what text threads are affected. Show or hide overset frames for the selected text flow or all text flows on the page. From the SoftCare Overset Manager palette, go directly to a specific overset frame and start editing the text.Additionally, be alerted when printing or exporting a document containing overset text. With its extensive feature set, SoftCare Overset Manager significantly increases the level of production security and helps to prevent costly mistakes.Preferences can be set to determine the background color of overset frames, as well as their position relative to their master frame. Overset frames can be placed comfortably at the top-right corner in the document so that even long overset text will be visible. Alternatively, overset text frames could be placed to the left of the original text frame when using right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.By counting placeholder text, SoftCare Overset Manager enables the user to determine the exact text length needed to fill a text thread in order to give correct instructions to an editor. SoftCare Overset Manager calculates text length by number of characters, words, lines, and manuscript lines. The length of manuscript lines is set in the SoftCare Overset Manager preferences. By setting the preference to a decimal number, e.g. 5.8, it is also possible to calculate the number of standard words needed to fill the text frame.Measure the length of text in the current selection, text column, or text thread, and see values for the text that fits in the text frames as well as for overset text, separately. The SoftCare Overset Manager palette enables the user to measure the current text selection against the remaining amount of overset text for easy and precise copy fitting. If a text frame is not completely filled with text, the palette displays an estimate number of missing lines for under-set text.The text count feature in SoftCare Overset Manager differs from the native Adobe InDesign character count feature. The most important differences are summarized in this table:SoftCare Overset Manager calculates values for text column, text selection or text thread. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 calculates values for text selection or text thread.Using SoftCare Overset Manager a text column or text thread can be calculated even when selecting part of the content with the text tool, as the type of selection is set in the Plug-in palette. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 displays values for the current selection only. If no text is selected, values for the entire text thread are displayed.SoftCare Overset Manager always shows the amount of overset to a text thread, even when counting just part of the fitting text. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 does not allow the user to compare the length of part of a text against the amount of overset.SoftCare Overset Manager shows text length when selecting a text frame with the selection tool. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 shows text length only when the text tool is selected.SoftCare Overset Manager offers preferences for setting the number of characters per manuscript line. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features for calculating manuscript lines.With SoftCare Overset Manager the number of characters per manuscript line can be integers or decimal numbers, e.g., to estimate the number of average words by setting the value to 5.8. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features for calculating manuscript lines.SoftCare Overset Manager counts only line per table row when calculating tables. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 counts at least one line per table cell, e.g., one table row with three columns will return a line count of three (or more, if one or more of the cells contains more than one line of text).SoftCare Overset Manager shows how many lines and tables are included in the overset part of the text . Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 does not recognize lines or tables in the overset text part.SoftCare Overset Manager added a preference to choose the position of the overset frames. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager added a preference for the background color of the overset frames. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager provides a drop-down menu to jump to the overset and yellow background in the palette if overset exists, Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager added warnings about overset in the document before output. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager estimates the number of missing lines for under-set text threads. Adobe InDesign CS2/CS3 offers no features.SoftCare Overset Manager can be used with InDesign or with InCopy. While InCopy provides editors with statistical information and allows to edit overset text in galley and story view, SoftCare brings these important features to the layout view, where the editor can see the exact design as it appears on the InDesign page. The Plug-in can be used with our publishing solutions SoftCare K4 and SoftCare K2.The Plug-ins is available in English, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: SoftCare Software-Service GmbH
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