News Highlights

  • All Meadows Publishing Solutions software products, including DesignMerge® Pro VDP software, and AutoPrice catalog software, are now available for use with Adobe InDesign CC 2015;
  • DesignMerge® Pro is an award-winning suite of VDP plug-in modules that allow users to quickly and easily create variable data output from any Adobe® InDesign® document;
  • AutoPrice links databases to Adobe® InDesign® documents, automating previously costly, time-intensive and tedious manual entry of prices and other data for catalog and retail publications;
  • Meadows will be demonstrating these software modules in booth #351 at the Graph Expo show, September 13–16, 2015 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL;

SCHAUMBURG, IL — September 9, 2015 — Meadows Publishing Solutions today announced the release of DesignMerge Pro and AutoPrice for Adobe InDesign Creative Cloud 2015, supporting both Macintosh and Windows platforms. With these releases, all Meadows software products are now fully compatible with the latest Adobe InDesign CC 2015 version.

About DesignMerge

DesignMerge Pro is a software suite that provides users with sophisticated variable data publishing and personalized printing features. DesignMerge supports variable text, picture, article, and even complete Adobe InDesign layouts and master pages. The software includes a powerful set of VDP features, including conditional processing (Rules), automatic copy-fitting of overset text, and multi-up support. All of the design features of Adobe InDesign are available when using DesignMerge software, so advanced typography such as variable type-on-a-curve, runarounds, and specialty colors are easily supported.

DesignMerge also outputs the most popular variable data printing formats including PostScript, PPML, Creo VPS and PDF/VT. The product is fully compatible with systems offered by all of the major digital print manufacturers, including Canon, Fujifilm, Kodak, and Konica Minolta. For more information about DesignMerge technology, please visit www.meadowsps.com/designmerge. To view DesignMerge video segments, please visit www.designmerge.com.

About AutoPrice

AutoPrice is a powerful, yet easy to use, tool for linking text and graphics in any type of database to Adobe InDesign documents, vastly streamlining production. Proven over 20 years by many of the largest catalog, retail, and financial publishers throughout the world, AutoPrice has set the standard for plug-in based data connectivity software.

As the name implies, AutoPrice is engineered to automate the process of inserting, updating and versioning prices for catalogs, retail flyers and similar publications, but it is also ideal for updating timetables, phone lists or any other type of information that can be referenced from a database or spreadsheet file. For more information about AutoPrice software, please visit www.meadowsps.com/autoprice.

About Meadows Publishing Solutions

Meadows Publishing Solutions is a software development and integration company specializing in commercial and custom plug-in modules for Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat as well as other extensible technologies. Meadows has developed a number of popular software packages for the database publishing and variable data printing markets, including their award-winning products AutoPrice™ and DesignMerge®. Founded in 1991, Meadows is based just outside of Chicago in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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