Enterprise features
If either you or your organization is comfortable using Adobe InDesign, we have great news for you! Our enterprise product integrates directly with Adobe InDesign to help you in creating catalogs with unlimited flexibility. The below features sum up our enterprise offering.
Once you have created a customized template, you can use Spray to quickly create output for any number of selected products, or even entire sections of product. The Sprayer will take the template and replace the contained fields with whatever is in the datbase for the selected product(s). The best part is, all of the styling attached to your template remains in place, which means you can create many pages of content quickly with a single Spray step.
As your product templates are Sprayed on the page, over time these values will change in the database. Because the sprayed output is part of the document, it goes ‘stale’ once the databased content changes. To alleviate this, you can select any number of frames and perform a “Refresh” which checks each and every one of the two-way links in the templates. If newer data is found in the database, it will replace what is the in the selected frames–all while keeping styling the same!
Anyone who has built a manual Index can tell you that it is a nightmare task. This is because each and every Index entry has a corresponding page #, and the second you move a product from one page to another, it can completely throw it off. With Catalogforce, you can Index by any field in your database. In fact, you can create a merged index using up to 3 separate indexes! Once you choose your Index field, the plugin will search the entire book of documents and get the associated page numbers. Within minutes, you will have an Index that could have taken weeks or months otherwise. The best part? Because the entire process only takes a few minutes, as you alter the layout late in the process there is nothing to worry about because you can re-run the Index as often as you need.
The Catalogforce templates allow you to include linked product photos, so that the correct image from the database is included along with the product copy, pricing, and other fields. However, there may be times when you want to include more than just what is coming from the template. With Imagesource, you can select a product and view ALL images that correspond to a given product–not just the ones coming from your template! This allows you to drag and drop the image directly onto the page, or into a pre-existing style frame if you have one. Allows you to fully customize your output with an easy-to-access image pallet.
When it comes to doing larger jobs, sometimes a normal Spray makes sense, and other times it does not. In a case where you have multiple sections with many items that need spraying, each with customized templates, only Create Media will do the trick. Create Media allows you to select any number of your catalog sections for Spray, and assign both Master Pages AND template files for each section. These Master Pages and Templates could be the same across sections, or different if you needed them to be. Once you have these selected, it will go through section by section, spraying product output against your Master / Template combinations until everything is completed. This is a great way to produce thousands of individual spec sheets at one time.
Paragraph Styles are, of course, natively supported in InDesign. But, did you know you could also use these when bypassing InDesign to use the browser-based Catalog Editor? It’s true! You can define paragraph styles that account for font, style, size, color, etc. just as you would within InDesign. These styles are then applied to text or field references within your templates. Then, at the point of catalog creation, the tool will incorporate the styles just as if it were InDesign. Who said you needed fancy graphical designer software to do fancy graphic design?
Print catalog creation in today’s world is a multi-user, multi-channel publishing effort that requires simultaneous action between personnel across departments and roles. In such an information-driven world, you need print catalog software that is as dynamic and multi-functional as you are. Catalogforce has been designed as a multi-user, multi-channel print catalog software that will get your catalog out to the printers as quickly as the pace of your business.
Some of the other key features include:
Effective print catalogs are critical for driving sales. Your business is pressed to produce the most effective, creative, and accurate print catalogs you can make in your limited time and budget. Having the right print catalog software lets you do more with less. The right print catalog software can reduce ‘overhead’ tasks, offer an efficient interface, and expand your catalog’s accessibility. This saves time and money that can be better allocated to more crucial revenue-driving functions.
Forward-looking organizations are producing their print catalogs from the catalogforce cloud. Catalogforce offers a streamlined, easy-to-access interface to help you create better and smarter catalogs cheaper and more quickly. It allows you synchronize and streamline the workflow between your various departments to produce persuasive end products.
