Local directories is a huge task for most people. With the use of Cacidi Extreme and the auto pagination engine called “AutoCalc”, Extreme are able to layout hundreds or thousand of pages with a very limited manual efforts. This tutorial will show you what you can achieve with just a data file, a small prescript to manipulate some of the data structure of the data, a templates and Cacidi Extreme. Continue reading
Creating Snippets for Magazines
To create magazines with free floating text and image frames is a tedious task most designers will love to automate. This tutorial show you how to create several designs for easy drag ‘n drop to the InDesign template and with all text styling, connected to each data field, and automatically placing of images with basic scaling and position. Continue reading
Cacidi Expanding Try-Out Period to 30 Days
Today we are expanding our try-out period to 30 days. 30 days, to get familier with our software so you have a better posibillty to getting to know every detail. Feel free to contact sale support at sales@cacidi.com if you have any inquiries.
To try-out the software just download it from downloads and take it for a spin today.
To install the software, make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Extension Manager, double click the zxp package you just downloaded, and follow the instructions on the screen. On Windows you will have to restart your computer to load the libmySQL.dll file.
After you have downloaded the software you can find the palette in the Window menu (for Cacidi Cropmarks, it’s located in the Object menu.)
Numbered Tickets by Using Pre-Script
When creating lot of different jobs like tickets you will need to get a unique number of each ticket, and you will need to have the data sorted in a way that will make it easy to cut the tickets afterwards. The pattern the numbers in are really importance. Continue reading
Creating price lists using tables
The Price Lists tutorial project is showing the use of the advanced Data Grouping option as well as a utilizing tables and the Prototype Placement Inline Calculation method . The project is designed to produce a full list of sanding papers. A large part of the tutorial are quite similar to the “Creating Price Lists Using Paragraphs” tutorial which shows a different approach to a price list production. Continue reading
Creating price lists using paragraphs
The Price Lists tutorial project is showing the use of the advanced Data Grouping option as well as a number of different AutoCalc methods of Cacidi Extreme. The project is designed to produce a full list of sanding papers . Continue reading
Changing design or data in a previous job
This tutorial continues the work done in the “Drag ‘n drop design with dynamic data” if you don’t have the finish job from that tutorial, go through the necessary steps to complete the 14-Music page. If you are using interested of being the co-opeeration between LiveMerge and Extreme, you could build the 14-Music using a simple step ‘n repeat production, and take it fra there. Continue reading
Drag ‘n drop design with dynamic data
In this lesson, you are going to create a design for a music store ad, using existing snippets and a template, so you get the feel of the basic functionality of the Cacidi LiveMerge panel.
If you’re already familiar with our Adobe InDesign plug-ins you will notice the new drag n’ drop functionality. Continue reading
Setting up the tutorial projects
Download all the tutorial files from here, unpack the zip file, and place the contents where you like. Continue reading
Dynamic scaling of text content
Cacidi Extreme and LiveMerge is able to, on individual text box level, automatically scale text to box by a priority scheme the user sets up. The options are: Autoscale point size, kerning and leading, all defined as percentage from original. It is even possible to have a text box automatically adjusting it’s size to match the amount of text content within it. Continue reading