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InCatalog for InDesign

£333.00 – £9,000.00 + VAT

InCatalog for InDesign can help you automate the publishing, updating, and versioning of projects ranging from one-page advertising flyers displaying a handful of products, to thousand-page industrial products catalogues detailing tens of thousands of products.
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SKU: N/A Categories: Adobe Plug-ins & Extensions, Automated Output, Em Software, Output Tools, Print, Prepress & Publishing, Software Category, Workflow Tools, Workflow, Production & Automation Tags: Adobe, Automate, Automation, Book, Booklet, Catalog, Data, Database, Directory, Document, Export, InDesign, Mail, Mailing, Merge, Output, Productivity, Publish, Publishing, Template, Templates, Workflow
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Praise for InCatalog for InDesign

 I cannot say enough about these tools. They have given me the freedom to pitch to clients with confidence that I have a solution right from the start. I still see redundant tasks eating away at designer’s creativity. If I could say, there is only one problem, the product works so well that it intimidates people. I have been asked several times during presentations ‘what will happen to our design team.’ I simply reply, you will now have the time to design with passion. 

-David M Bey, Creative Director at designismylife

 As you know, we’ve been working with Em Software for many years now, and have implemented InCatalog, InData, and InFlow in a wide range catalogue and retail advertising environments. Sure, this kind of thing is a day at the office for you, and for us, but I have to tell you that it NEVER gets old seeing the faces of those who typically spend weeks and months searching, gathering, re-keystroking, and tracking all of the content that is now automated directly to the page for them, upon seeing it for the first time. It drops jaws every time! 

-Jeff Kazanow, Partner at Onus LLC

 First, I love your porgramme. I have been designing a 100-page catalogue for the past 8 years, and started using InCatalog several years ago. Since our catalogue has more than 1,600 parts, your porgramme has saved us almost a week’s worth of production time (if not more)! 

-Jonathan Y., at InCatalog User

 Well, according to the raw data here it’s working like a charm! This is really, really cool, your plugin [InCatalog] has taken a job that once took 6+ days and now takes 6 minutes! You have temporarily restored my faith in technology. This plugin really is going to “revolutionise” our catalogue production process and save me from endless hours of tortuous monotony. Thank you again. 

-Matt Richards, at Lark in the Morning

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Description

If you work with a database and InDesign, why not allow them to interface directly? Chances are you’ve been spending countless hours getting data back and forth “the hard way.”

InCatalog is a Plug-in to Adobe InDesign that enables you to link document elements (both text and graphics!) to corresponding database elements, and gives you the power to update in both directions (document from database, database from document). You can also make locale-sensitive versions (e.g., changing prices or swapping languages), and more.

Using InCatalog for InDesign, you can work with delimited ASCII text files created from any database, spreadsheet, or other application, on-line using FileMaker Pro under Mac OS, or on-line using any ODBC-accessible database under Mac OS or Windows (Pro version only).

As a Plug-in to InDesign, InCatalog becomes a seamless part of the InDesign publishing system, once installed. InCatalog runs inside InDesign, under its own menu.

With InCatalog, you can:

Solve version control headaches

Be sure that your document shows the latest info and prices in your database, and that your database shows last-minute changes you’ve made to your document.

Update in both directions

Make changes in either the document or the database, and push the changes in the other direction with no extra work. (No need for intermediate steps such as report creation and extraction.)

Enjoy flexible data sources and destinations

Use off-line simple delimited text data “snapshot” files, on-line FileMaker Pro (and Runtime) databases under Mac OS, and on-line SQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and Access, using ODBC under Mac OS and Windows (Pro licence).

Use transparent data linking

Use the intuitive linking palette to establish links between any database element and any document text element (from a single character to a phrase to a paragraph to a whole story) or any picture element.

Forget about links affecting the printing process (they don’t affect any page layout), but view links on the screen (if you choose) so you can see what you’re doing.

Move links between documents and libraries transparently, for ease of building new documents from old document elements with links intact.

Update interactively as you work

Use the linking palette’s interactive update capability to update the current single link, whole frames/stories, whole groups, or the current spread, even update automatically each time you make a change.

Greatly speed up creation

With pre-linked modules in libraries, drag a module, fill in a key value in one link, and watch the Plug-in fill in the whole module automatically.

Use one-step batch updating

With just one menu selection, make sure all linked document elements match their corresponding database elements.

Work with multiple documents and data sources/destinations

Use multiple open documents and use multiple data sources and destinations for complex jobs, even per-document, switching among them as needed.

Get automatic price styling

Define any number of price styles per publishing project using full tagged text for arbitrary formatting, apply those styles per-link, and have prices fully styled as part of the automated update.

Use powerful key linking options

Select different strategies for obtaining a link’s key field value direct from the link, direct from the linked contents, indirect from another direct link in the current group, or indirect from linked text before or after the current link.

With grouping and indirect keys, build whole modules that require only one key to be set to fully link everything in the module, or build lines or paragraphs of multiple links that are controlled from a single item.

Use tagged text

Enable tagged text support on any link, to capture the full InDesign Tags or Xtags document formatting for any data element.

Use multiple picture placement options

Update graphics, automatically resizing them to fit their destination frame in various ways, or to be left sised as-is.

Be flexible in graphic file naming

Point InCatalog to your picture folders, using aliases/shortcuts in your project control folder. Enable “fuzzy lookup,” which even finds linked graphics files that have filename prefixes or file types/suffixes not given by the data.

Automate with scripting

Script all updating operations for powerful workflow automation.

Enjoy full Unicode support

Use the full Unicode character set in various encodings, for all data files and ODBC connections.

InCatalog comes in two versions, normal and Pro. The only difference is that the Pro version is ODBC-capable, able to talk to any database server that is ODBC-accessible.

System Requirements

Mac OS®

Software

  • InDesign CS5
  • InDesign CS5.5
  • InDesign CS6
  • InDesign CC
  • InDesign CC 2014
  • Same Mac OS requirements as the installed version of InDesign

Windows®

Software

  • InDesign CS5
  • InDesign CS5.5
  • InDesign CS6
  • InDesign CC
  • InDesign CC 2014
  • Same Windows OS requirements as the installed version of InDesign

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Categories: Adobe Plug-ins & Extensions, Automated Output, Em Software, Output Tools, Print, Prepress & Publishing, Software Category, Workflow Tools, Workflow, Production & Automation.
Tags: Adobe, Automate, Automation, Book, Booklet, Catalog, Data, Database, Directory, Document, Export, InDesign, Mail, Mailing, Merge, Output, Productivity, Publish, Publishing, Template, Templates, Workflow.

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