Advice on Automating Retail Catalog Creation

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3 total messages Started by noob_for_life Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29

#978

Author: noob_for_life
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29

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I was asked to use InDesign's XML import capabilities to automate the population of spreads in a retail catalog (picture boxes, accompanying copy, etc). So, I am rapidly learning how to do this. All of the content (or, in the case of images, pointers to content) will reside in a database.

One question: Does anyone have advice on standards for the structure of the InDesign document or advice on where I could look for such standards?

Thanks much!

Re: Advice on Automating Retail Catalog Creation

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Author: loic_aigon
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:07

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Hi
Strongly recommend buying and reading the great book :
 A designer's guide to adobe Indesign and XML.
There are a lot of integration examples in it.
Loic

Re: Advice on Automating Retail Catalog Creation

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Author: E_G_R
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:19

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Hi:

Don't forget the InDesign Tagged Text option, especially if you also control the database.

egr

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