As I think you already know, EasyCatalog is one of the best-known and most popular InDesign catalog plugins in the world. On this page, we will showcase some of the most important features of EasyCatalog and some useful configurations to create a layout like the one above.
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EasyCatalog is a suite of plugins for Adobe InDesign that extend InDesign’s standard features with functions focused on creating and managing data-intensive documents.
EasyCatalog’s most important additions to InDesign:
- Extend the connection between documents and data sources. Multiformat, ordering, grouping, transformation.
- Extend the styling beyond the objects to create “product styles” that can be enriched with Pagination Rules and stored as assets in InDesign Libraries.
- Recall product styles based on the data source value and automatically place the product styles in the document filled with relative information from the data source.
- Preserve the linking between documents and data sources for updates.
- EasyCatalog Functions can be used with the same JavaScript you use for other InDesign automation tasks.
On this page, we will showcase some of the most important features of EasyCatalog and some useful configurations.
Table of Contents
1. Creating a data panel
2. Grouping data
3. Inserting a field specifier in the document
4. Creating a product style
5. Paginating a document
6. Updating a document
7. Setting paths correctly