I'm trying to find out what would be the best way to import data from a database into InDesign CS6 (no .txt or .csv)?
I would like to use this to create folders/posters for in-store use.
Example:
A standard poster with editable fields will be created to serve as a template.
When an employee wishes to print a new poster for a product with detailled information the following should happen:
- he/she gets a prompt with, for example, 'input article ID:'
- InDesign looks up the article ID in a database and gets the detailed information
- the information (name, picture, category, ...) is put into textfields/imageboxes on the template
- the user is presented with either a 'Print now' screen or the file is exported to a pdf-file and saved to the harddrive of the employee's computer
I've been looking around and found a few (expensive) 3rd party plugins to extract data from a database.
Is there any (doable) way to script this myself or is a 3rd party plugin mandatory?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Kind regards,
Stijn DHondt