InDitect PRO
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InDitect PRO is a plug-in for InCopy/InDesign for professional spell check and dictionary management. It is based on huge dictionaries, complemented by the acknowledged Dieckmann algorithms for best quality. It represents the acknowledged de-facto-standard for spell check and dictionary, using the Dieckmann method.
InDitect PRO is available for InCopy/InDesign CS3 and CS4.
InDitect PRO is available in more than 30 languages at i.t.i.p. GmbH. With InDitect PRO, InCopy and InDesign users can benefit of the extraordinary quality of Dieckmann’s methods for spell check as well as of the sophisticated dictionary management system.
Highlights
Highest accuracy. InDitect PRO uses an internal dictionary with a huge amount of words for each languages. This immense vocabulary is complemented by the specific Dieckmann algorithms for different word endings and compound words.
More error types detected. InDitect PRO recognizes, for example, erroneously capitalized words.
Full InCopy support. InDitect PRO is compatible also to InCopy. That’s why you can accomplish maximum spelling quality using editorial workflow systems as well.
30 languages. InDitect PRO is available in more than 30 languages. It covers all prevalent central-european languages like English, German, French and Spanish, as well as some slavic languages like Polish or Slovak and even some exotic ones like Afrikaans or Bahasa. You can find a full overview of all currently available languages on the reverse side of this paper.
30 years of experience. The German engineer Frank Dieckmann has been developing and refining his methods to find out the right spelling for words. Thanks to close cooperation with leading publishing houses all over the world and constant improvement and development, his methods now have an outstanding quality and meet the highest quality requirements. This has been confirmed in may tests conducted by customers as well as by computer journals.
How it works. InDitect PRO is based on a huge vocabulary in each available language – up to several millions of words being delivered in strongly compressed file. This is complemented by a real highlight: a specific method to recognize word endings and word combinations. In addition to that, users can maintain their own dictionary, for example for special terms or particular company terminology.
Detailed error messages. The actual highlight of InDitect PRO are the number of different kinds of errors and the adjustable quality of the Suggested Corrections list. Unlike other spell check software, InDitect also recognizes, for example, wrong lower case spelling. After having detected a misspelled word, InDitect PRO causes InDesign to flag this word, and makes a certain number of suggestions for correct spelling.
Price
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i.t.i.p. Tip – InDesign
A New Non-Breaking Space Character
You might have noticed that Adobe introduced a second "non-breaking space" character with InCopy/InDesignCS3. The new one behaves in principle like the "old" one, but has no fixed width. This means, it will be stretched or shrunk during the composition, if you use a "justify" paragraph alignment.
The bad news is that they decided to assign the familiar keyboard shortcut "Cmd-Alt-X"/"Ctrl-Alt-X" to the new one! So be aware that your automatically typed "Cmd-Alt-X"/"Ctrl-Alt-X" characters won't have the usual fixed width.
Of course you can change the keyboard shortcuts by using the usual technique: "Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts".
Rudi Warttmann, Adobe Certified Instructor