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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 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.