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Work as you would normally do in manual fashion with InDesign, in fact even easier, because Cacidi LiveMerge CC allow you to create and re-use design group objects and totally innovating receive a live feed of text and images from your product database or a simple textfile. 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 CC 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 tekst 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-UpdateÓ, and the document automatically polls the data source for changes, and updates your document on the fly!
Cacidi LiveMerge CC 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 Cacidi BarCodes
Cacidi LiveMerge CS4 fully supports the Cacidi BarCodes CC features, allowing you to include barcodes in your design, which will be created and live updated by Cacidi LiveMerge CC.

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

New Cacidi LiveMerge CC features:

New and improved user interface
The Cacidi LiveMerge CC has been optimized to take advantage of the most high-end technical and designer friendly features, and is now in full integration with the Cacidi Extreme CC product (see specific product sheet for Cacidi Extreme CC).

Built-in data grouping
Using an intuitive user interface, you can set up preferences for product group selections, directly within the Cacidi LiveMerge CC project settings. This feature makes it easy to create complex price lists and similar productions, without the necessity for external consultancy services.

Custom data feed
The feature Custom data feed, brings an unique possibility to by the means of scripts, influence import of data in Cacidi LiveMerge CC.
It is not complex to create a script, which by a
XMLHttpRequest (part of Web 2.0 and AJAX), extracts data from all kinds of web services.
Custom data feed provides information about product groups and queries from InDesign/Cacidi LiveMerge CC to the script.

New data validation methods
Cacidi Extreme CC includes much more data validation features, such as built-in text field formatting, including a so called "image" of the actual formatting ###.###.,##.
Built-in "IF" statements allows for eg "0" or "1" values (equal to true or false), to easily make sense when included in data text fields. Even automatic removal of empty data lines, deletion of empty image frames, and new visual adjustment options for images.