Product updates, tutorials, and use cases for AI-powered InDesign automation.https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/chatgpt-indesign/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/chatgpt-indesign/How to connect the ChatGPT desktop app to Adobe InDesign with Sidekick: the setup, the two settings people miss, and what it looks like when ChatGPT designs a spread.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/accessible-math-pdf/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/accessible-math-pdf/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.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/multi-page-score/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/multi-page-score/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.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/alt-text-audit/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/alt-text-audit/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.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/show-dont-tell/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/show-dont-tell/Claude has always verified its work with snapshots—hidden in the tool accordion. Now it can present results inline, right in the conversation.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/looking-closer/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/looking-closer/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.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/excel-pricing-tables/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/excel-pricing-tables/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.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/math-equations-indesign/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/math-equations-indesign/How Claude converts LaTeX formulas into SVG graphics and places them in InDesign with proper baseline alignment.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/session-to-skill/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/session-to-skill/How a twenty-minute conversation with Claude became the start of a reusable skill for fixing Dutch typographic errors.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/broken-links/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/broken-links/Two ways to automatically find and mark broken hyperlinks in your InDesign documents using Sidekick.Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/claude-code/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/claude-code/How to install and configure Sidekick for use with Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line interface for Claude.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/font-metrics/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/font-metrics/Sidekick can now read font metrics directly, enabling precise positioning of objects relative to text and mathematically accurate layouts.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/hello-world/https://sidekick.eastpole.nl/blog/hello-world/Introducing the Sidekick blog where we'll share product updates, tutorials, and use cases for AI-powered InDesign automation.Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT