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EmData is a document building tool that brings the full layout, design, typographic and picture publishing power of InDesign to bear on all your data-driven repetitive publishing tasks. Simply put, EmData works like a "mail merge on steroids." You write simple text statements to import and format your text and graphics. Then EmData's menu-driven tools, in a few clicks, build your documents at hundreds of pages per hour. Control your design and layouts:
Use InDesign's typographic controls for each variable field and for any intervening text, to get just the right look for your data.
EmData has a powerful English-like scripting language. You can put any field from your data source in any order in the text flow, force page breaks, generate headers/footers, apply master pages as needed and lots more. Control your content
Use EmData's scripting language to build simple or complex rules for including or excluding fields, pictures and static text. And there are no limits on your data: records and fields can be as many and as long as you need. Applications
EmData is perfect for product catalogs
· financial and legal reports
· conference guides
· abstracts
· real estate guides
· trader and swap magazine
· classified advertising
· timetables
· phone books
· course listings
· TV guides
· much more. Field-proven
EmData has been in production use, world-wide, since late 2000. It was even used to produce an 800-page phone directory when it was still in alpha test. Features include:
· 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
EmData 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 EmData under Mac OS and Windows for automation of repetitive single jobs, as well as large, complex jobs involving multiple imports in multiple documents.
· Supports EmCatalog
You can build your templates with EmCatalog links embedded. Later, using EmCatalog, you can update fields in place from updated data, or extract any document updates to your data.
· Full Unicode support
EmData can read the full Unicode character set (that InDesign supports), in various encodings (which are auto-detected at input time) including UTF-8.
Volume license pricing available on request, please e-mail sales@thepowerxchange.com for a quote. Manufacturer: Em Software Inc. |
