Seeking European InDesign Server Partners for Automated Label Artwork Generation

[DNix2001]

Hi There ,

I represent a multinational labeling company who are looking at alternative automated label artwork generation engines.  We have in-house InDesign skills and would like to see what In design server could offer.

I've tried using the chat bot and visitng various (dead) links for a list of partners but am not having much luck.  Im questionining if indesign Server is even supported now?

If anybody point me in the direction of European indesign consultants or think they are qualified to take on a challenge then please let me know!

Thx

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[Manan Joshi]

Hi @DNix2001,

What exactly do you need help with? Is it installing and trying out InDesign Server or you need someone who can migrate your current workflow to IDS? Also, IDS is not dead and very much being used

-Manan

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@DNix2001

What exactly are you looking for? 

[DNix2001]

Hi,

At this stage it's an introduction to InDesign server; it's capabiltities, required infrastruture, real world licensing cost (I see it's licensed per CPU) and experence with downstream workflow integrations. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I don't think it's per CPU - it's per server. 

[DNix2001]

Thansk Robert  - it says "The EULA makes it clear that a licence is required for each CPU that is enabled to run the software. "   This is in relation to virtualistion so unclear! 

...but this is exactly why we need an experienced partner.  We produce over a billion products per year, this isn't a small project for us to undertake.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

It's only in case of a virtualisation or partitioning hardware sever. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@DNix2001

You can have as many instance - separate processes of InDesign - as you want - as long as your server can handle.

[Manan Joshi]

So basically it is one license for a server. You can launch as many instances of IDS on that server as your machine can support. General rule of thumb is to have 1 instance per core. I suppose you could contact Adobe and discuss your needs and they should guide you on what you should buy and how to test it before you make a purchase.

-Manan

[tomr-leguptools]

They're not based in Europe, but if that's not a barrier then you might like to look at RunScript from Typefi, which is InDesign Server as a Service - so you don't need to purchase and setup the hardware and server licences.

[Manan Joshi]

Something similiar is being provided by Adobe. See https://github.com/AdobeDocs/indesign-api-docs. This is in beta currently but could be an alternative to in house IDS installation.

-Manan

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Something similiar is being provided by Adobe. See https://github.com/AdobeDocs/indesign-api-docs. This is in beta currently but could be an alternative to in house IDS installation.

By @Manan Joshi

And that's another area where my IDT would shine 😉 instead of creating script from scratch - which would require extremely deep scripting knowledge - user can create a Task, manual steps that he would otherwise perform in non-server version of InDesign - and use this Task on Server. 

[Peter Spier]

You might also want to take a look at Santa Cruz Software: https://santacruzsoftware.com/.

I used to do tech support for their PrintUI segment.

[TᴀW]

I'll just put my name down here as well.

I've been working on a massive automated labelling project for InDesign server for a large multinational company, with ~10,000 products, each of which needs a complete label set (including front and back labels, shipper labels, pallet labels, etc.).

The whole thing is done with InDesign Server, and completely automated. So employees worldwide simply need to enter the required data into the (custom-made) web portal, and within seconds a complete label set for the product is produced, including barcodes, any required hazard symbols, complete multi-page booklets, and so on.