Easier way using InDesign for catalogus / magazine?

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    • #85054

      Hi everyone,

      my name is Janick van Megroot and I work at a big music company in Holland. Each year we make a magazine / catalogus for our customers.
      We have a magazine with 124 pages, products, reviews interviews etc. But I have to make the magazine in 5 languages and in the future 8 languages.

      I am not really an InDesign expert and this is the way I work:

      I get the product numbers of the copywriting department for every category. I have to save the image from our website to my computer. Place it in InDesign and then copy the title + price + productnumber of the product into InDesign. And if I have 24 products on each page its a lot of work… Specially when I have to do it in 5 languages. It’s killing me.

      I want to know if there is a better and faster way? Is this with XML and does it has to connect with our website server or something? Is there a plug-in?
      I really dont know. Maybe someone can tell me how I can do this a lot easier instead of copying every product into InDesign 24 times x 8 languages… :)

      thanks in advance.

      Janick van Megroot

    • #85134
      Design Dept
      Participant

      are you using layers for each language?

      • #85191

        Im using new indesign files for each language yes.

      • #85220
        Ari Singer
        Member

        He meant to ask if you’re using different layers for each language, not different InDesign files

      • #85229

        No im not. Im copying the indesign files and replace all the titles of the products!

    • #85195
      Tim Hughes
      Member

      Your problem seems to be collecting the copy to use in Indesign, not really an Indesign problem.
      Perhaps going to the source of the info being input to the website may be the best option.
      Once you have that information/copy placing and styling it in Indesign is quite straightforward.

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