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InData - 4.1.3b2

build complex documents from raw data

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Current Version:	4.1.3b2
Release Date:	2006-09-30
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	1,872
Downloads (all versions):	3,027
Price:	$400.00

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Product Description:

InData works like a bionically-enhanced mail merge, freeing you from endless manual formatting. Using an English-like scripting language, you define the rules that format your text and graphics. Based on the rules you write, you can include or exclude information — parts of a field or the entire field — and create sophisticated design templates. For example, you can apply different formats to a field based on its content, or based on the content of another field.

When you’re ready to build your document, simply point InData to your ASCII text file — and it will produce pages at jaw-dropping speeds (up to thousands of pages per hour). Here are just a few things you can produce with InData: catalogs, one-to-one marketing, TV guides, directories, real estate guides, trader and swap magazines, phone books, classified advertising, and much more!

InData lets you import in-line artwork, apply master pages, create headers and footers, and is Applescriptable for even more automation control. It integrates with InCatalog as well, allowing you to build a document and then update your data at any time without having to rebuild your document.

What's new in this version:

Added support for XPress Tagged data fields when used in conjunction with our Xtags for InDesign plug-in (versions 3.0.2b2 and 4.0.2b2 or later). Whether tags are treated as InDesign tags (the default) or XPress Tags is controlled by a new "Styled text contains" setting in the General Preferences dialog (InData > Preferences > General...).
XPress Tags handling is currently limited to character and paragraph settings; Xtags tags which create and group frames, etc., are not supported at this time.
Note that you'll have to have the Xtags for InDesign plug-in installed to use the "Styled text contains: XPress Tags" preference.
Added "Line feed in data becomes" entry to the Data Preferences dialog in order to support Microsoft Excel/Windows-generated snapshots containing multi-line cells where a LF (#10) is used as a line break. (Oddly, Excel/Mac uses a CR (#13) in the same situation.) This setting defaults to "Nothing" to remain backwards compatible and should be changed when working with Excel/Windows snapshots.
Fixed a long-standing problem where an empty picture path (in a "set filename of picture" statement, for example) could trigger a crash if the picfolders list happened to contain an entry lacking a terminating folder separator.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Adobe InDesign CS or higher

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