hi cecetka > Hi, Some years ago, I have seen a company having custom made software > which generated a pdf-catalogue out of their product-database > automatically. Since than, I did not come across something similar, > so I do not even know what is the right term to search for. Now I > want to have catalogue of products automatically generated from a > database (or table). Every product has its text, price, and pic > location in the form of text in the database. How can I mass-import > products (text + image) into pre-determined text-frame (kind of > "item-card"), one after another (f.e. 6 cards per page), so that > catalogue can be generated automatically? Many thanks in advance.
basically, you can do it with scribus but you need some simple python scripting. there are sample scripts in the wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Poor_man%27s_mail_merge ciao a.l.e
