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- komkrktprod
whats the best program to create an document (catalog) using a grid layout (3x3)?
The information that needs to be included besides the item picture is the title, description, upc, etc...
What I really require is to be able to make revisions quickly...such as removing an image and corresponding information, and then not have to move everything up and over and up and over across multiple (like 200 pages) as the folks I work for are demanding and yet unknowledgeable about how long something like this will take...
Perhaps something with a database or that utilizes a database, to populate the fields of a document...like a report.
MS Access comes to mind but maybe some of you know better...
pls help. this needs to be done yesterday.
- mr_snuggles0
InDesign would be the best, but [no offense] given your question, setting it up properly using style sheets etc, might be a bit beyond your knowledge. To be fair, what your asking is a bit beyond mine too, but I'm lucky enough to have people do this stuff for me...
- komkrktprod0
Thanks. I'm versed well enough in css, and its incarnations in InDesign/QuarkXPress...
styling type however does not solve my original q about populating the document with data quickly without having to blow my brains out over tedious manual revisions.
Since you are so lucky, perhaps you can ask one of your underlings how they would go about achieving such a goal.
appreciative,
kkp
- jysta0
Sounds like your in a bit of a sticky one.
Yes InDesign or Quark is gunna be the weapon of choice. Setup a Master spread and make sure your text boxes are linked. Then link to the top corner of the page. This makes the document automatically create a new page when the text runs over one page.
I would break the content into Header and Content. Linking all the Headings together, and all the content boxes together.
Do Your Styles Sheets!!!
Get text for titles
Get text for contentand lots of end returns :-)
job done/
really important in this situation to make sure everything is setup properly before bringing in any content.
hope thats clear, propably not but difficult one to explain easily on something like NT. :-/
- mr_snuggles0
oh crap, sorry mate, this is web you're talking about?
* takes foot out of mouth
* puts head back up ass
- Baskerville0
like jysta says, unless you have some custom made software (like many newspapers have for doing layout each day) then quark or indesign.
But there are no easy/quick ways to do it, just tell the client how complex changes etc may be, you can't do anything about it.
- komkrktprod0
no snugs...its a print document as I'm supporting sales folk who don't even know how to use blackberries, let alone laptops...
- Baskerville0
I'm confused, I thought this was a print question.
- komkrktprod0
You know it flies in the face of convention but I'm seriously about to set up a database in Access with a flag for current/not current and design a report the exact same way I would in Quark and just run the report on whats current.
It would also help because at some point in the near future I will be designing the front end and back end of a website that will basically do the same thing...among other things...
Then I will leave this horrid company with some professional web experience under my belt.
- moth0
quark or in-design.
I used to be a typesetter... If you wanted to use a database, you'd need to design that first and that could take ages.You just need a well set-up document with style-sheets (nothing to do with CSS) and a good typesetter/ cum artworker.
I would also probably veer towards quark for a document of this size, and split it into several documents.
You don't sound like a typesetter, but if I were you, I'd hire one. You'll never do it on your own...
- jysta0
(for InDesign)
That link should give you a better idea.make sure on your new document settings you have 'master text frame' checked.
Once u setup your master, on your first spread select 'overide all master page items' then 'get text' (apple+D) in first of your text boxes. Only one box is filled with text, but then the clever part...
...shift click threaded text between boxes and all of a sudden you got your 200 pages of text done to your master 3x3 grid.