Lightning Brain StoryParker for InDesign helps you cope with cluttered pages. It adds a number of context menus to various page items. Every page item can be temporarily 'parked' - meaning: you can put it aside, somewhere on the pasteboard, and quickly move it back to exactly where it came from some time later. Stories spread over linked text boxes can also be parked all together. The idea is to help you get one or more page items out of the way quickly, for example because you want to reach something that's underneath. Later on, you can move the page items back to their exact original position with a single click. The neat thing is that parked page items 'remember' where they came from - you can 'unpark' them, which causes them to fly back to the exact location they had before you parked them. Parked items are put on the pasteboard, and can be moved around freely from there - any movement while they are parked is ignored and forgotten the instant you unpark them. There is a neat extra trick for text boxes: the context menu you get by right-clicking or control-clicking a text box will also allow you to park the whole story. All text boxes that contain parts of the same 'text flow' or story are parked together.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's working for me now so I am amending my first review. I don't know why it didn't work the first time I tried it. In any event, I think it will be useful once I get the hang of it.
Worked for me
stickman67
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I really like this. Fast, simple, effective, free.
And beats command-clicking through layers of objects.
If it worked
WhiteDog
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It's a nice idea - if it worked, which it does not for me on a dual 1GHz G4 with OS X 10.4.6 and InDesign CS2. I installed the specified items in the InDesign Plug-Ins folder as directed, launched InDesign, opened a document and hit Control-Shift to bring up the contextual menu. Neither with text selected nor with a text box selected did I see any reference to Active Page Items or Story Parker. I tried with two different documents and got the same result - nothing.
