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From: Greg_Jagge
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:29

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Hello,
I am trying to see if I can produce a catalog using InDesign CS. I have an application that I build my catalogs in and then it produces an XML document of the items that I have selected. I would like to see if I could take that XML document and flow it automatically into an InDesign document. What I have as of now is the XML flowing into placeholders that I have setup with the tagged information. The problem that I am experiencing is that I may make a catalog that will contain a hundred or more pages. I don�t want to have to setup a page with placeholders for every page that I want to produce. Is it possible to automate the production of the tagged placeholders and the pages? I am also experiencing a problem with tables that I am bringing in. I have the table tags �<aid:table xmlns:aid=�http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/3.0/�>
�, but I would like to format this table with things like column width and table height or font size in a particular cell. Is it possible to format the tables in this way? I am fairly new to the InDesign family and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg

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