Catalogue automatization help

[Cláudia25336201ujpi]

Hey Guys,

So, I don’t know if any of you know can help me with this, but I have a new Project where I must create a Digital Catalogue for a brand that sells ovens. They sent me several pages with information and symbols/features (see image bellow) and they want to create a box with text for each symbol (which is easy to do individually) but I would like to know if there is any plugin or InDesign feature that allows me to create a symbol database where it automatically knows the symbol and each description, without having to copy paste to each page.

Thank you for your help.

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

IndyFont may be a soluton for you. It lets you create a font with each character being one of your symbols. 

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

@SJRiegel has one part of the solution if your symbols are only colored with one swatch.

What I do not know is how your customer provides the information for every symbol.

Could you tell more about that?

After creating a font with all the symbols you still have to find specific text your customer provides and change it to the right symbol. This may be done with a series of GREP Find/Change actions. You may be able to do this with the FindChangeByList.jsx script that comes with every InDesign. But I'm not sure if that is sufficient for your use case.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )