Publishing Data with CatBase: an Overview

Just a few steps to publishing your data ...

1. Get your data into CatBase's database. You can enter it manually; import from a delimited text file; or (Data Chameleon Edition) import directly from a connection to a SQL database (such as MySQL or SQL Server) or ODBC data source.
2. Set up Publishing Style Sheets to tell CatBase what you want to publish and how you want it formatted.
3. (Optionally) Create Sets of data - e.g., all Products, or all companies in the UK, etc..
4. (Optionally) Set up Publishing Projects to organise your projects.
5. Publish your data using a Publishing Project or by selecting the data you want to publish and then selecting the Publishing Style Sheet you want to use; this creates a text file.
6. Import the text file into your chosen publishing destination.
7. All the data is automatically styled as you specified; pictures can be placed as well!

CatBase Works with all the Major Publishing Solutions

• QuarkXPress
• InDesign CS
• FrameMaker
• PageMaker
• Microsoft Word, or any program that supports RTF tags
• HTML
• XML
• Delimited text files
• SQL Server (Data Chameleon Edition)
• MySql (Data Chameleon Edition)
• An ODBC-compliant data source (Data Chameleon Edition)

See some examples of how this all works ...

We've created a number of mini-Tutorials that demonstrate how the publishing process works.

• Publish an illustrated Catalogue with QuarkXPress
• Publish an illustrated catalogue with InDesign
• Publish an illustrated catalogue with FrameMaker
• Publish a directory with QuarkXPress
• Publish a directory with InDesign

For a list of all the Tutorials, see the index page.