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• • January 20, 2016 at 4:34 am #80935
    xtl4000

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    Hi all,

    I’m new to this forum and I’m already loving it .
    I have a question, and I appreciate your help.

    I have a 3 catalogs to do that after I need to translate them in 16 languages. >Imagine a clothes catalogue style. so 48 loooooong catalogs

    I have the 3 templates with the text + images fields, singles pages, double pages …. but now I need to put the data in.

    Is it possible to use data merge to do this? Can I define the text field where the data will be merged?
    I.e. 1st page text field is upper right, 2nd page text field down left, and so on…
    Until now I found how to import all the data to blocks into indd, but not to a specific place.

    Do you have any suggestion? I really appreciate your help on this.

    I try to find more about easy catalog , but I don’t know is fits my needs… I just saw that was great to cars catalog…. well a catalog that every product image and description looks the same.
    It’s not my case…. Every page as kind of a different style…

    Thank you so much in advance!
    Kind regards,

  • January 20, 2016 at 8:50 am #80941
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    You can only think of datamerge as an easing tool but not something that will layout the catalog in a blink. Datamerge does best with static layouts such as letters, business cards and so on.

    EasyCatalog is on the contrary a really powerful and smooth catalog plugin. It doesn’ t have to fit a specific and repetitive layout. You can bring conditional processing and actions that can allow you a deep level of flexibility.

    Loic

  • January 20, 2016 at 11:15 am #80953
    xtl4000

    Member

    Hi Loic,

    Thank you so much for your reply…

    mmmm! is there anything “similar” but for free?

    I know, maybe I’m asking to much…

    Kind regards,

  • January 20, 2016 at 4:03 pm #80958
    Anonymous

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    You can still consider learning XML import. It’s free…

  • July 20, 2016 at 10:48 am #86623
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    I know you’re concerned about price; who isn’t? But if you look at the amount of time saved by using a more robust program, you usually can recoup the cost of the software fairly quickly. Your management would understand the ROI of that logic.

    Even if your pages are seemingly different at first glance, you may still be able to automate them in a way that will still save you time in your production cycle. It’s helpful to see about where your worst pain point is, solve that, move on to the next, and so on.

    Although I’m not the technical wizard with EasyCatalog, the company I work for is the US representative of the software and offers consultation on it. If you have any questions about this, you can contact us through our website at https://www.avatardps.com and we can try to help you.

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