InData Features and Benefits

Automatic publishing using a "template" for your records

Inside your InDesign document, use bracketed names to identify each incoming field (e.g., <<address>>), and style each field with appropriate text and paragraph attributes. Interleave static and dynamic text and pictures, include, exclude, and move fields around as desired.

Ease with power

InData is easy enough to use for simple jobs, and powerful enough for the toughest projects.

Accepts pre-sorted tab- or comma- delimited data files

Create exports from your Mac OS or Windows database, spreadsheet applications (Excel), or downloaded from your corporate information systems.

No limits on your data

Use as many fields and records, with each being as long as needed, within the overall limits of InDesign documents.

Sophisticated picture importing and sizing

Import related graphic images (of any type supported by InDesign) into picture frames anchored in the incoming text (flowing with the text). You can size the image to the picture frame or the frame to the image using one of several sizing options.

Variables

Calculate and store information for later use in the prototype, or for use in later records.

Conditional statements

Create more sophisticated record templates that apply different formats to a field, based on its or another field's value. With this feature, for example, you can print heads and subheads only when they change, or generate a page break, given a change of value indicating a new section or subsection.

Repeat loops

Loop over data elements (character or words or lines), looking for particular information, or even repeat whole portions of the prototype.

Automated headers and footers

Create multiple, independent "dictionary-style" headers and footers on each page or spread, with sophisticated controls over the header/footer contents.

Multiple master pages

Based on incoming data, use different page layouts by applying master pages.

Scriptable

Script InData under Mac OS and Windows for automation of repetitive single jobs, as well as large, complex jobs involving multiple imports in multiple documents.

Supports InCatalog

You can build your templates with InCatalog links embedded. Later, using InCatalog, you can update fields in place from updated data, or extract any document updates to your data.

Full Unicode support

InData can read the full Unicode character set (that InDesign supports), in various encodings (which are auto-detected at input time) including UTF-8.