Smart Catalog CS3

Catalog production is all about being up-to-date, on time and efficient! Use Smart Catalog to produce your catalogs, price lists, and brochures automatically in Adobe InDesign, by linking your documents to an external data source. Updating documents becomes as simple as clicking on the update button.

Producing catalog-type publications often is a cumbersome process. Although the relevant information is likely to be available in a structured way, like a database, the process often consists of lots of manual copy-and-paste work. This is not only a burden for designers who would rather be spending their time being creative, it also leaves plenty of room for errors in the final document.

Not with Smart Catalog Pro! By establishing a link between your structured data and InDesign documents, data can be published fully automatically, and updating your complete document is as simple as pressing the update button. Now, designers can put their creativity into the design of templates; automated processes will fill the templates with relevant data.

Publish new text and pictures automatically Now suppose the data changes. Normally, this would mean manually updating all elements in your document. With Smart Catalog, only one simple update action is required to update all elements automatically! Alternatively, you can also update fields automatically one at a time.

Smart Catalog offers lots of other time-saving features. You can fill entire table rows or columns with data fields at once, and resize image frames or images automatically. It also provides extensive control over the formatting of numbers, and has a reporting feature that shows you the differences between the external data and data in your document.

Use layout libraries and databases Smart Catalog works seamlessly with Smart Layout. This special combination allows you to create a set of layout templates and store them in a library. Creating your catalog now has become a matter of dragging templates from the library, and linking them to the correct products with a single click. All product fields will update automatically.

Smart Catalog CS3 is a useful plugin that extends the functionality of a powerful tool like Adobe InDesign.