What we learn making Sidekick, and what people build with it.
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28 AUGUST 2026
InDesign has no idea what a score is. Claude engraves a four-page Schubert song with LilyPond, places it page by page, and makes it look like it was typeset with the rest of the book—margins, running heads, and the same font as the body text.
28 AUGUST 2026
Vector equations in a PDF are just outlines—unsearchable, silent to screen readers. But PDF has a proper mechanism for math, and Claude can automate all of it: ActualText at placement, Formula tags after export.
18 JULY 2026
Accessible PDFs need alt text on every image—and InDesign's AI now stamps 'AI generated' placeholders on your client photos. Sidekick lets Claude audit and fix the alt text across a whole document, describing only what's actually visible.
07 JULY 2026
Claude has always verified its work with snapshots—hidden in the tool accordion. Now it can present results inline, right in the conversation.
29 JUNE 2026
Until now, Claude saw your InDesign page as a whole-page glance—fine for 'did it move,' not for 'is this exactly right.' Sidekick can now render sharper views, zoom into any part of a page, and inspect a single element on its own.
07 JUNE 2026
Your client revises the scope, the spreadsheet changes, and now you're re-typing a pricing table by hand. Sidekick lets Claude update it from the Excel file—new prices, new rows, same branding.
04 FEBRUARY 2026
How Claude converts LaTeX formulas into SVG graphics and places them in InDesign with proper baseline alignment.
20 JANUARY 2026
How a twenty-minute conversation with Claude became the start of a reusable skill for fixing Dutch typographic errors.
16 JANUARY 2026
Two ways to automatically find and mark broken hyperlinks in your InDesign documents using Sidekick.
08 JANUARY 2026
How to install and configure Sidekick for use with Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line interface for Claude.
07 JANUARY 2026
Sidekick can now read font metrics directly, enabling precise positioning of objects relative to text and mathematically accurate layouts.
06 JANUARY 2026
Introducing the Sidekick blog where we'll share product updates, tutorials, and use cases for AI-powered InDesign automation.
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