Articles tagged with Automated catalogs
Updating item groups with PageBuilder 4

PageBuilder 4 allows you to update previously built catalogs, i.e. refresh the data while preserving the original lay-out. Because the lay-out does not need to be recalculated, updating a catalog is ...

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Price Strikethrough ItemGroup Builder

Everyone knows these advertisements where the original price of a product is striked through and the promo price is put bigger? For tho ...

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Working with rich text in PageBuilder 4

One of the new features of PageBuilder 4 is that tags in templates can be resolved with rich text content. When HTML field values are encountered, the HTML content is mapped to semantically equivalen ...

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Detecting obsolete item groups

PageBuilder 4 allows you to build an entire catalog at once, but you can also build separate sections or chapters, or you can build item groups for specific products. When you build a full catalog, ...

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Adding inline images to table cells

A few weeks ago we received the following request from one of our partners: We would like to create a table with icons in the headers of the columns. It would be interesting to see a blog post show ...

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ABC Positioning Catalog builder

To wrap up 2011 we will look at another advanced example of custom development for PageBuilder: ABC Positioning. ...

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Using custom InDesign tags in PageBuilder 4

Today we will look at a more advanced way of extending PageBuilder through custom development. In InDesign, you can add structured metadata to the content in your documents. In fact, this is how the ...

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How to suffix repeated product headers

One of the key new features of PageBuilder 4 is the ability to automatically split item groups for single products across multiple columns or pages in a catalog. The PageBuilder plug-in for InDesign ...

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Generating an index for your automated catalog

In our ongoing series on custom development for PageBuilder, we illustrate how the PageBuilder 4 API can be used to customize the default behavior, to extend the available features, or to implement e ...

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Adding an ad to your catalog

Lets say we are creating a new version of the yellow pages, and we want to add an advertisement on every even page. In our previous blogpost we've seen how easy it is to add a variable header into y ...

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