priint:comet plugins
Priint:comet plugin is an interface between a data source and InDesign for the purpose of automated production of price lists, industrial catalogues, creative publications. From a single user Desktop solution to a scalable, decentralized Enterprise publishing solution.
Advantages at a glance:
- Simple, intuitive working method
- Support for all layout types
- Fully automated page generation
- Powerful table module
- Automated page creation with subsequent manual revision
- Support for incremental page make-up with subsequent structure update
- Support for Drag & Drop
- Bidirectional updating between the content source and Adobe® InDesign®
- Support for a digital correction workflow
- System support for change management
- Automated generation of language variants
- Interfaces to more than 30 content systems
- Easy integration in existing data sources
- API for the implementation of customer-specific functions
Features
- Support for ODBC databases, XML files and web services (SOAP)
- Definition of placeholders which link individual elements to objects in the database
- Bidirectional database interface
- Template management for automatic page creation
- Templates support left, right and neutral pages
- Templates can span multiple pages
- Generation of indexes and tables of contents
- Navigation areas make it possible to search for documents, product data, texts, images
- Full support for InDesign® tables
- Powerful table wizard including support for pivot and matrix tables
- Definition of make-up rules for fully automated page layout
- Incremental updating of existing pages
- Incorporation of manual changes to layouts
- Simple visual creation of table templates
- Script capability
- Versatile display of information from other systems (materials management systems, product databases etc.)
- Support for Adobe® InDesign® as of CS4 (MAC / Win)
- Support for Adobe® InDesign® Server
- API provided
Adobe® InDesign® Server Interface
Eploiting InDesigns Server performance: The InDesign interface allows for high performance creating and updating of substantial publications via the Adobe InDesign server (single-/multiple instances)
Technical Features:
- Support for single and multiple InDesign server instances
- Server and task monitoring
- Time controlled batch jobs
- Direct control of InDesign server instances
- Load distribution
- Distribution of job types to dedicated InDesign server instances
- Support for multiple InDesign servers
