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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.

Claude has always verified its work with snapshots—hidden in the tool accordion. Now it can present results inline, right in the conversation.

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.

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.

How Claude converts LaTeX formulas into SVG graphics and places them in InDesign with proper baseline alignment.

How a twenty-minute conversation with Claude became the start of a reusable skill for fixing Dutch typographic errors.

Two ways to automatically find and mark broken hyperlinks in your InDesign documents using Sidekick.

How to install and configure Sidekick for use with Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line interface for Claude.

Sidekick can now read font metrics directly, enabling precise positioning of objects relative to text and mathematically accurate layouts.

Introducing the Sidekick blog where we'll share product updates, tutorials, and use cases for AI-powered InDesign automation.