- InDesign plug-ins control templates and workflows
- Simple to use, no programming skills, drag and drop
- On-the-fly production by drag and drop for fast publications
- Static pages and elements included without effort
Print modulePrint Engine
Catalogs from the same data as the web, set in Adobe InDesign.
Adobe InDesign is the publishing engine. Plug-ins put every hub function right inside it, so your team keeps working in the environment it knows, whether it creates new templates, works on the fine layout or updates prices and texts.
01Structure in the hub
The catalog is a tree. The products are linked.
Catalog, sections and documents are a structure of their own in the hub. Products are only linked into it. When a value changes, the hub knows which pages show it.
CatalogValves 2027de · en
SectionBall valves
DocumentSeries BV-4400template “series, 2 pages”
ProductsART-4471-A … ART-4474-Alinked, not copied
DocumentSeries BV-5200template “series, 1 page”
SectionIndexbuilt automatically
- One structure per edition: main catalog, price list, country edition, each with its own sections
- The same products appear in several editions and are maintained in one place
- A template per document: which design applies to which series is stored with the document
- Multilingual: the same structure produces every language edition
02Production
Four phases, from an empty layout to a finished catalog.
Each phase is a job of its own in InDesign. A customer can replace any of them with its own script, by a setting rather than a change to the software.
01Create template
Lay out a template family; InDesign reports which frames exist.
02Produce
Apply the template to the products, page by page.
03Update
Bring existing documents to the current data, without resetting them.
04Finish
Indexes, keyword lists, cross references, mirrored pages.
03AI draft
The AI proposes the layout. InDesign sets it.
Once a template is created, InDesign reports the page geometry and every possible frame, each bound to an attribute. The AI proposes position and size and may leave frames out on purpose. Your team reviews and approves in InDesign.
text · product name
text · description
image · photo
image · drawing
table · variants
text · approvals
product name
photo
description
drawing
approvals
variants
04Tables and matrices
Presentation quality that survives print.
Variant tables are built from the linked values. What is the same for every variant is pulled together; what differs gets its column. No mapping required.
| Article | Connection | DN | Max. pressure | Material | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series BV-4400 · for every variant: material 1.4404, approved for drinking water | |||||
| ART-4471-A | G 1/2″ | 15 | 16 bar | 1.4404 | 284 g |
| ART-4472-A | G 3/4″ | 20 | 16 bar | 1.4404 | 392 g |
| ART-4473-A | G 1″ | 25 | 16 bar | 1.4404 | 575 g |
| ART-4474-A | G 1 1/4″ | 32 | 10 bar | 1.4404 | 910 g |
Example series. Values are illustrative.
05Features
Everything the Print Engine does.
Design, fine-tuning and approval happen in InDesign, where your team already works. The hub supplies the data and takes changes back.
- Clear planning of catalogs, flyers, brochures, price lists and labels
- Template-driven production with a high degree of automation
- Your own start scripts, by a setting rather than a code change
- Dynamic layout for text, images and tables
- Tables, overviews and matrices, including aggregated values
- AI-assisted draft proposals for new templates
- Bidirectional data updates with change tracking
- Update prices and texts without resetting the page
- Catalog, Product Finder and assistant show the same data
- Country profiles, languages, currencies and units
- Country-specific attributes
- International hyphenation
- Indexes with freely defined keywords
- Overviews and tables of contents
- Dynamic page references