Cacidi LiveMerge CS3

Introducing Cacidi LiveMerge, the perfect Adobe InDesign plug-in for graphic design workgroups to efficiently layout any kind of product data based Adobe InDesign document.
Work as you would normally do in manual fashion, in fact even easier, because Cacidi LiveMerge allows you to create and re-use design group objects – and totally innovating – receive a live feed of text and images from your product database. The benefit: Focus on design and layout and let Cacidi LiveMerge at all times control the state of content in your document - live updating right in front of your eyes. No need for checking if your document content is correctly up to date, Cacidi LiveMerge handles that part for you! In design driven variable data publishing, this is nothing less than a revolution!

Ease of use
For the graphic designer, working with Cacidi LiveMerge is as simple as:

1. Select or search the content/product you need
2. Drag and drop the design from the design library palette onto the page layout

Even creating new designs happen 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 just as easy.

Live updates – 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 puts an end to tiresome proof readings, even large dokuments are in matter of seconds updated to current content – and you are at any time secured that your InDesign document has a perfect content match to your data source.

Support for Extreme BarCodes
Cacidi LiveMerge fully supports the Extreme BarCodes 3.0 features, allowing you to include barcodes in your design, which will be created and live updated by Cacidi LiveMerge.

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 production, such as pricelists and product catalogues, this is extremely efficient.