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Em Software: the Data-Driven Publishing People

If your data starts off (or ends up) in a database or spreadsheet, and needs the publishing power of QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign, our tools are the most powerful, flexible and affordable way to get there. And we guarantee them 100%.

Xdata & InData: Data publishing at hundreds of pages per hour

Xdata progress dialogXdata and InData are document building tools that bring the full layout, design, typographic and picture publishing power of your professional desktop publishing tool to bear on all your data-driven repetitive publishing tasks.

Simply put, Xdata (for XPress) or InData (for InDesign) works like a "mail merge on steroids." You write simple text statements to import and format your text and graphics. Then our menu-driven tools, in a few clicks, build your documents at hundreds of pages per hour.

Xcatalog & InCatalog: Say good-bye to double data entry

InCatalog linker paletteXcatalog and InCatalog are powerful bi-directional linking tools for creating transparent links between your documents and databases. You use them to update prices, graphics, or product information--even change versions or swap languages--automatically.

With Xcatalog (for XPress) or InCatalog (for InDesign), you can rest assured--your documents will always reflect your latest database contents.

Xtags for QuarkXPress and InDesign: XPress Tags on steroids

Xtags source Xtags is an import and export text filter supporting the full Quark XPress Tags language plus its own powerful tags for box creation, master page application, etc. Xtags for QuarkXPress and now InDesign is perfect for data-driven document layout, picture-based data publishing, books, classified ad building, code conversion, and more.

InFlow: Autoflow text for InDesign

InFlow is a plug-in for InDesign that answers the question "Why doesn't InDesign automatically add pages when I have overset text?"

InFlow can save you critical production/editing time and trouble when using InDesign.

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See the products comparison for a better understanding of how the products differ from one another, and how they work together.

 

Now that QuarkXPress 8 is shipping, we're happy to announce that we have a shipping version of Xtags 8, a shipping version of Xdata 8 coming within a day or two, and a shipping version of Xcatalog 8 by mid-September.

The Quark vs. InDesign website is featuring Xtags (for both XPress and InDesign) in one of their great giveaways.

X-Ray Magazine recently published a very detailed and helpful article on Xcatalog/InCatalog.

X-Ray Magazine published two great articles on Xdata/InData: 7 XTensions for 7 (in Español), and Xdata/InData: easy documents from data.

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