Smart Catalog Pro

Smart Connection Enterprise - Publishing Platform

Produce data based documents

WoodWing’s Smart Catalog Pro for Adobe InDesign is an extremely powerful and scalable solution to help you efficiently produce catalogs, price lists, brochures and other publications alike. This is what true automation is all about.

Why to buy?

Speed up your production of catalogs, price lists and much more
Create and update your documents fully automatically
Get the designer back to his job – being creative
Connect to any of your data sources, using ODBC or XML
Tailor to your needs through endless scripting possibilities
Enterprise-level integration

Save time, avoid mistakes

Producing catalog-type publications often is a cumbersome process. Although the relevant information is likely to be available in a structured way, like a database, the process often consists of lots of manual copy-and-paste work. This is not only a burden for designers who would rather be spending their time being creative, it also leaves plenty of room for errors in the final document.

Not with Smart Catalog Pro! By establishing a link between your structured data and InDesign documents, data can be published fully automatically, and updating your complete document is as simple as pressing the update button. Now, designers can put their creativity into the design of templates; automated processes will fill the templates with relevant data.

Format, connect and script

Smart Catalog Pro is shipped with a number of additional modules that offer extended automation possibilities. The included Smart Layout and Smart Styles deliver powerful formatting and layout capabilities, removing repetitive tasks. The ODBC module offers live connection to virtually any database. Any type of filter can be set, to publish the exact data you need.

The XML module connects Smart Catalog Pro to, for example, a database-driven ERP or Content Management System (CMS). Now, XML data from your other systems can be used inside your InDesign documents. Finally, the Robot module enables both automatic creation, as well as formatting of the catalog. Using scripting, you can define a variable page layout that will perform intelligent automated placement of your content.

Server version

Smart Catalog Pro can be delivered in a server version which empowers you to run it on a server and allow access to the software by both internal and external users. Download your 30-day trial version of Smart Catalog Pro today, and experience true data based documents!