Xinet Client Utilities and Plug-ins

Xinet Client utilities and plug-ins are automatically installed when installing the client software on a local computer. Clients, with direct access to the server, can install Xinet Plug-ins directly from the server onto their workstations. Both the Mac OS X and Windows installers are available on the MacFiles server.

For full installation instructions, see Installing Xinet.

For a full description for each plug-in, see About Xinet Client Extensions and Plug-ins.

For a list of Third-Party Software, see the section in the Installation Guide, Preparation/Libraries for Xinet on Linux Server.

Version 19 Utilities and Plug-ins

The following table outlines the utilities and plug-ins installed with our Xinet client software in an environment for Xinet version 19.0.

Plug-in	OS X	Windows
Annotator ID for Adobe InDesign	CS6*, CC*, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017	CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017
Picture Wrangler ID for Adobe InDesign	CS6*+, CC*, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017	Not Available
Xinet Metadata ID for InDesign (formerly Xinet Text Indexer ID)	CS6*, CC*, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017	CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017
Xinet Support ID for Adobe InDesign (formerly WebNative ID)	CS6*, CC*, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017	Not Available
WebNative Helper for Firefox (WebNative Archive has been removed from the 19.0 distribution.)	45 (ESR) *	Not Available
Xinet Contextual Menu for Firefox	45 (ESR) *	Not Available
Xinet Contextual Menu for Safari	5.1 and above	Not Available
Xinet Contextual Menu for Chrome	35.0 and above. (Available on the Chrome Web Store at https://chrome.google.com/webstore.)	Not Available
Xinet PPDs	Not Applicable	Not Available

You will find our Windows plug-ins for Adobe InDesign CC 2014, Adobe CC 2015 and Adobe CC 2017 at https://creative.adobe.com/addons. Mac OS X client software is available on the MacFiles volume (the installer is called Xinet Client.mpkg).

(*) Xinet 19 is the last version of Xinet to support a number of plug-ins, as marked by an asterisk ( * ) above. For a complete list of end-of-life announcements, see the 19.0 release notes.

(+) PictureWrangler for Adobe InDesign CS6 requires AFP mounts and does not work over SMB. (Other versions will work over SMB)