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Work as you would normally do in manual fashion with InDesign, in fact even easier, because Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 allows you to create and re-use design group objects AND receive a live feed of text and images from your product database or a simple text file. The benefit: Focus on design and layout and let Cacidi LiveMerge at all times control the state of content in your document with its live updating right in front of your eyes. No need for checking if your document content is correctly up to date since Cacidi LiveMerge handles that part for you! For the graphic designer, working with Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 is as simple as:
1. Selecting or searching the content/products you need
2. Dragging and dropping the design from the design library palette onto the page layout
Even creating new designs happens faster than you will believe. Any text you like to dynamically feed and update from the data source, you just place brackets [ ] around. Dynamic image links are just as easy. Live updates Ð Live objects
Click a button once, and your content is immediately updated to current state, should a colleague of yours, or even an automated process, parallel to your work have changed content in the data source. 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 CS4 puts an end to tiresome proof readings, even large documents are updated to current content in a matter of seconds and you can feel secure that your InDesign document has a perfect content match to your data source. Support for Cacidi BarCodes
Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 fully supports the Cacidi BarCodes CS4 features, allowing you to include barcodes in your design, which will be created and live updated by Cacidi LiveMerge CS4. Data search and selection (SQL queries)
Within the Cacidi LiveMerge design modules--an Adobe InDesign table for example--it is possible to include data string searches (so called SQL queries), enabling Cacidi LiveMerge designs to place content based on predefined query strings. For all table based productions, such as price lists and product catalogues, this is extremely efficient. New Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 features:
· New and improved user interface
The Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 has been optimised to take advantage of the most high-end technical and designer friendly features, and is now in full integration with the Cacidi Extreme CS4 product
· Built-in data grouping
Using an intuitive user interface, you can set up preferences for product group selections, directly within the Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 project settings. This feature makes it easy to create complex price lists and similar productions, without the necessity for external consultancy services.
· Custom data feed
The feature Custom data feed, brings an unique possibility to, by the means of scripts, influence import of data in Cacidi LiveMerge CS4.
It is not complex to create a script, which by a
XMLHttpRequest (part of Web 2.0 and AJAX), extracts data from all kinds of web services. Custom data feed provides information about product groups and queries from InDesign/Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 to the script.
· New data validation methods
Cacidi Extreme CS4 includes much more data validation features, such as built-in text field formatting, including a so called "image" of the actual formatting. Built-in "IF" statements allow for eg "0" or "1" values (equal to true or false), to easily make sense when included in data text fields. Even automatic removal of empty data lines, deletion of empty image frames, and new visual adjustment options for images.
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