Pagination turns your product data into technical catalogs, datasheets and price lists, generated automatically for every product family, market and language.
Whether you build motors, controls, luminaires or instruments, one data source and one InDesign template produce print-ready PDF, packaged InDesign or editable Excel, with no manual rebuilding of dense spec tables every time a value changes. This is catalog automation built for specification-heavy product lines.
Pull products, specifications and assets from your PIM or an Excel export, via API, SFTP or upload.
One InDesign template renders each product family, market and language, placing spec tables, icons and drawings automatically.
Export print-ready PDF, packaged InDesign or Excel, and keep every edition archived by date, market and product line.
Many catalog tools work for simple assortments. Electronics data is technical, the tables are dense, and the same catalog ships in several languages and regional editions, so the publishing logic has to be more structured. Pagination is built for database publishing, where product data, layout rules and InDesign templates work together.
A motor, a controller and a luminaire do not share the same specification columns. When column counts and content length vary by product family, standard data merge cannot guarantee clean results.
Pagination generates the parametric tables and adapts the layout so each family reads correctly, without a manual rebuild.
The same catalog ships as regional and language editions, and the details matter: local number and separator formatting (1.780 against 1,780), different column ordering per market, and the ability to show or hide pricing per edition. Pagination generates the whole set from one dataset, applying each market’s rules automatically.
Application and compliance icons, footnotes, accessories and drawings all belong to specific products and change on their own schedule.
Pagination maps icons and footnotes from the product attributes and places drawings as linked per-SKU assets, so when the source record changes, every generated edition follows.
A 500-page product catalog. US and Canadian price books. Motors, controls and accessories, each on its own template. Somfy, a US manufacturer of motorized window coverings and smart home systems, automated all of it on Pagination, generated from regular PIM exports so every market edition stays current.
An electronics or lighting SKU carries far more than a name and a price: technical specifications, parametric tables, performance values, compliance icons, footnotes, drawings, accessories and region-specific pricing. The same record feeds a product catalog, a datasheet and a price list, each with its own layout rules.
Pagination drives all of them from that one record, so an update to a specification or a price flows into every document automatically.
| What you publish | How Pagination handles it |
|---|---|
| Technical product catalogs | Dense, parametric spec tables generated per product family, with adaptive column handling |
| Datasheets and spec sheets per SKU | One sheet per product, with specifications, icons and drawings placed from your data |
| Multi-region, multi-language price lists | One edition per market and language, with local number formatting and legal notes |
| Product-family templates | Distinct layouts for motors, controls, luminaires, instruments or accessories from one source |
| Icons and footnotes from attributes | Application and compliance icons mapped to product attributes, footnotes placed automatically |
| Accessories and related products | Accessory tables and cross-references built from the product relationships in your data |
| Price visibility control | Show or hide pricing, or swap price versions, per edition and per market |
| Excel exports | Generated alongside PDF, with pricing formulas preserved for downstream edits |
Scheduled or on-demand output | Generate on a schedule you define, or trigger runs through the API |
Share a recent catalog, datasheet or price list, plus a CSV or PIM export of the underlying product data. A short review shows which sections can be automated, which table and formatting rules need to be defined, and what electronics catalog automation would look like across your product families and markets.