Generate calendars
Choose a date range and starting day to generate a calendar in your document, with supporting table styles, paragraph styles and swatches.
- Custom date ranges
- Supporting styles and swatches
- Consistent calendar formatting
Productivity tools for Adobe InDesign
Highlander Tools for InDesign
Spend less time on repetitive production tasks.
Create calendars, generate colour swatches, turn URLs into hyperlinks and simplify everyday document work with a collection of utilities inside InDesign.
Downloads the CCX installer. See installation steps below.
Examples of the tools included
Practical tools for everyday InDesign tasks
Highlander Tools brings common production utilities together in one plugin. These examples show some of the ways it can help with repetitive document work.
Create colour swatches in bulk
Enter or paste multiple colour values and create the corresponding swatches together, helping you work with supplied brand colours.
- CMYK, RGB, HEX and LAB values
- Multiple swatches in one operation
- Less manual data entry
Generate hyperlinks from URLs
Identify website addresses and convert them into InDesign hyperlinks when preparing interactive PDFs and digital publications.
- Detect website addresses
- Create InDesign hyperlinks
- Reduce repetitive link creation
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Built around production work
Make routine document tasks easier
Designed for designers, marketing and communications teams, bid teams and in-house publishing departments, Highlander Tools helps reduce repetitive editing and improve consistency.
Work directly in InDesign
Use the tools without writing scripts, with utilities for tasks such as generating content, managing swatches, resizing items and cleaning up documents.
Developed by Highlander Training, an independent creative software specialist established in 1995.
Getting started
Download, install and activate
Download the installer
Use the download button to save the Highlander Tools CCX installer to your computer.
Install the plugin
Double-click the downloaded CCX file and follow the installation prompts. Reopen InDesign to access the Highlander Tools menu.
Start your trial or activate
Choose About Highlander Tools from the Highlander Tools menu to start your trial or activate a purchased licence.
Download Highlander Tools
Licence purchasing and activation use our licensing partner, Lemon Squeezy.
Further information
Support and related tools
Need help with the plugin?
Tell us your InDesign version, plugin version and what happened using the plugin support form.
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