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Metals Service Center Institute: Member Directory
Appearances can be deceiving. Take the simple member listing at right. What's special about it? It's special because it was generated by a database. And what's special about that is it allowed our client to tie in their membership database to our production worklfow, allowing them to receive round after round of proofs in hours instead of days, even though the publication was over 400 pages long. For this project we used QuarkXPress and XData to set up a template and code which would accomodate the layout design "rules" (e.g., a listing could not break across pages), automatically inserting the alpha side tabs, changing headers and footers, and other items as it auto-flowed into a new Quark document. More below… This is what the data looked like when it arrived (after exporting from MSCI's database) . . .
. . . and based on the XPress template we designed and the following XData prototype code . . .
. . . the data was imported, the final 400+ document was generated and sent to print. Here's a typical spread:
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