Solutions · Catalog production
Automate catalog production, from product data to print-ready page
Your catalog is built from product data, not copy and paste. We connect Excel or your ERP to InDesign, plan pages in the browser and pre-build the layouts. Design still happens in InDesign; every version after that is automatic.
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Catalogs from product data
Items, prices and copy are read from your data, allocated to pages and placed in the layout. When a price changes, it changes in one place, not by hand on every page.
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Page planning in the browser
Products are placed on pages by drag and drop. The result goes straight to layout, with no spreadsheet that keeps being reshuffled.
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Every language, every promotion
Language and promotional versions come from the same design. For layer and print versions there's D7versions.
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Page database and approval
Every current page searchable, with change history and online approval for people who don't work in InDesign.
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Automatic export
Print PDFs and previews run in the background on your InDesign Server.
D7catalog · In development
Page planning, catalog assembly and sorting
We're developing D7catalog as a product for page planning, catalog assembly and sorting from a database. Until then, we build the workflow for you as a project.
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Example scenario
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Building catalogs from product data
Before. Product data from Excel or an ERP is placed on pages by hand and transferred into the layout.
After. Data from Excel or your ERP is read in, pages are allocated and layouts prepared, with page management and online approval included.
Building block: Page database with a REST API See the service
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Drag-and-drop page planning
Before. Page allocation lives in an Excel list that keeps being redistributed.
After. Products are placed on pages in the browser, and the result is ready for layout right away.
Building block: Web portals See the service
How is your catalog made today?
Show us a sample. On an initial call we'll tell you which steps can be automated.