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This article provides a high-level overview of Print & Publish, including key benefits and features.
About Inriver Print & Publish
Inriver Print & Publish makes producing printed materials fast and easy. Directly from your Inriver dashboard, you can connect Print & Publish with Adobe InDesign, using the 65bit EasyCatalog plugin. This provides your designers with access to the latest product information and, using Print's table configurator, allows them to visualize detailed technical information effortlessly.
Before you continue
To use Print & Publish with InDesign, you need the EasyCatalog plugin. Both Adobe InDesign and the 65bit EasyCatalog plugin are separate products.
You need the 65bit EasyCatalog plugin to connect Print & Publish to Adobe InDesign.
Key features of Print & Publish
- Configure and compile complex data sets by selecting necessary data fields.
- Create table configurations.
- Create different language versions in a single click with the multi-language export.
- Select one of the many online templates with real-time output preview.
- Choose multiple print marketing channels: XML, InDesign, InDesign Server with EasyCatalog, or other Adobe InDesign print plugins.
Key benefits of using Print & Publish
- No customization is necessary
- Speedier production time
- Custom catalogs for specific audiences
- Multilingual channels
- Reuse of data sources for different publications
- Reuse of table configurations for multiple publications
Data flow
After setting up a structure with Publications, Sections, and Entities from Plan & Release, you use Print & Publish to access an online environment where you can configure and compile the Inriver data to be used in InDesign. The Inriver fields are shown in specific datasets.
Standard functionality
Below is the standard functionality of Print & Publish. Each area serves a separate Print & Publish operation.
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Dashboard
Gives you access to information that helps you set up each step of the print process.
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Users
Allows you to create new users with specific user roles or update the role of current users.
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Source
Allows you to review the catalog structure for the publications created in Plan & Release.
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Configuration
Creates the datasets used in InDesign, via the EasyCatalog plugin, to set up the templates and produce the documents.
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Configuration (for tables)
Selects data from different entity levels to be visualized as tables in InDesign, with formatting and orientation options.
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File import
Uploads CSV files containing data used in publications that typically don't go into Inriver, such as pricing or promotional information.
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Extensions
Allows you to configure uploaded custom extensions for use in configurations.
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Packages
Uploads external packages that contain custom extensions.
Add-ons
In addition to the core functionality, we offer add-ons that provide advanced data transformation and automation capabilities.
Print & Publish add-ons will only be available if your organization has purchased the add-on functionality.
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Advanced field formulas (in Configuration)
Compiles the data of a specific field in advanced ways.
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Prints
Combines the Inriver source data, the configuration dataset, and the correct output language in an XML file, which you can preview for correctness.
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Organizer
Creates filtered versions of a source based on an Inriver attribute.
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Lookup
Replaces table data with other words or characters.
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Templates
Helps you upload and manage InDesign templates used by Automation.
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Automation
Assigns previously created templates to prints and generates PDF or InDesign output.
Further reading
Navigating the Print & Publish user interface
Print vs Print & Publish
Comments
5 comments
When will this functionality be available. It is not part of N-6.
Also, will it be possible to run Print and Print 2.0 alongside each other?
Hi Mark,
This functionality is already available.
It is not indicated to use them alongside each other.
Hi Gabriela
I was expecting to find an additional app or menu option and could not find anything.
The missing information in the above is that it is a paid for option which will not appear in the environment until it is puchased. I see that an additonal note has been added.
I have since spoken to inRiver representation and now have a demonstration booked.
I'm missing information on how to activate/install the Print 2.0 on the inriver side. Is that information available?
There are some extensions to install within your environment.
In our case this was done by the BSC who was assisting us at the time - Gabriela at the time.
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