Cacidi LiveMerge for Mac

From Cacidi Systems:

Cacidi LiveMerge CS5, the perfect Adobe InDesign CS5 plug-in for graphic design workgroups to efficiently layout any kind of productdata based Adobe InDesign CS5 document. The live connected drag'n drop functionality makes data driven layout fun and easy. Work as you would normally do in manual fashion with InDesign, in fact even easier, because Cacidi LiveMerge CS5 allow you to create and re-use design group objects - and totally innovating- receive a live feed of text and images from your product database or a simple textfile. The benefit: Focus on design and layout and let Cacidi LiveMerge at all times control the state of content in your document - live updating right in front of your eyes. No need for checking if your document content is correctly up to date, Cacidi LiveMerge handles that part for you. In design driven variable data publishing, this is nothing less than a revolution.

Ease of use For the graphic designer, working with Cacidi LiveMerge CS5 is as simple as: 1. Select or search the content/product you need 2. Drag and drop the design from the design library palette onto the page layout Even creating new designs happen faster than you will believe. Any tekst you like to dynamically feed and update from the data source, you just place brackets [ ] around. Dynamic image links just as easy.

Automatic software controlled updating If you prefer Cacidi LiveMerge to monitor and handle all updating for you, simply choose Start Auto-Update, and the document automatically polls the data source for changes, and updates your document on the fly. Cacidi LiveMerge CS5 puts an end to tiresome proof readings, even large dokuments are in matter of seconds updated to current content and you are at any time secured that your InDesign document has a perfect content match to your data source.

Direct database connection or text file Cacidi LiveMerge CS5 allows you to connect directly to a MySQL database for a live feed of data. With no stops in between, you draw data directly from the database during your catalogue production. Cacidi LiveMerge CS5 also let's you connect to alsorts of databases using ODBC connections(a ODBC drive for your datase is required, and sold by third party). Cacidi LiveMerge CS5 also let's you connect to a xml or flat csv, comma or semicolon separated file.

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