Cut-price automation tools for Quark and InDesign

Posted on 11 Dec 2008 at 08:54

XChange International is offering a huge discount on a QuarkXPress XTension and InDesign plugin that automate the creation of pages from a database of text and images.

The company describes Xdata and InData as “like mail merge on steroids”, capable of building documents at hundreds of pages per hour.

Users employ a plain text scripting language to put any field from their data source in any order in the text flow, force page breaks, generate headers/footers, apply master pages as needed and lots more. Then they can apply the applications’ own typographic controls to style the imported text as required.

That can provide big time savings for producers of publications such as product catalogues, financial and legal reports, conference guides, abstracts, real estate guides, trader and swap magazines, classified advertising, timetables, phone books or directories, course listings and television guides..

“A large number of our users—end users, printers, design studios, etc.—use both applications on a regular basis,” said Greg Stodghill, support services manager at XChange International. “In today’s economy, they are constantly looking for ways to save time and money in production, and both Xdata and InData … pay for themselves with the first use.”

Xdata and InData are normally £500.00 (or $800.00) if purchased separately, but the bundle of both powerful products is being offered for £295.00 (or $475.00) until 31January 2009. For more information go to xchangeuk.com. Demo versions are available.

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