Offers J2S Publish
Streamline and accelerate the production of your catalogs, brochures, and marketing documents
J2S Product
Industrialize and simplify the creation of your product and technical sheets
J2S Display
Automate and personalize your localized, multilingual in-store campaigns in compliance with your brand guidelines
J2S Design
Automatically create and update your visual collection plans to streamline the monitoring of your collections
Your J2S
A tailored solution, designed for your specific needs. Create and optimize your publishing workflow
Solutions Interoperability of the portal
Connect your information systems to Simple Workspace
Simple MOM - the PIM for your publications
Manage data quality and production workflows to publish your offers on your Print and digital channels
Simple DAM - asset management
Centralize your marketing assets
Simple Brief - collaborative flatplan
Plan and annotate the layout of your content until final approval using the flatplan
Simple Runner - automate your publications
Use Simple Runner to automate the layout of your documents
Security & service continuity
Be prepared for industry-level performance
Business Consumer goods & manufacturing
Create and distribute multilingual product sheets with optimal data quality to your retailers
Distribution and e-commerce
Use your product data and images to create editable yet controlled documents for internal or customer use
Retail, Networks, Points of Sale and Franchises
Automate the creation of marketing materials for your network. Guarantee brand consistency, reduce franchisee errors, and deliver tailored templates for each point of sale
Fashion & design
Group products by material, season, colour, etc. and automate your collection plans and overviews.
Studios, Agencies & Printers
Create and strengthen the relationship with your customers, optimize your publishing workflow
Book, magazine & journal Publishing
Publishers of illustrated books, magazines, journals, etc. automate the layout generation and free up time
J2S Experts in Adobe solutions
J2S is the French leader in custom development based on InDesign and InDesign Server. We started our partnership as a certified reseller of Adobe InDesign Server and the Creative Cloud suite in 2002
Our partners
Since 1999, we have established a wide range of partnerships with technology partners, integrators and agencies
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Catalogue Design and Offer Placement using Simple Workspace

Catalogue Design and Offer Placement using Simple Workspace

After finalizing and inputting the offers, the next step in creating catalogs is determining their placement. Simple Workspace provides various solutions, such as automated page layout production, to generate a visual representation of the document. This document can be easily adjusted before being handed over to studio and layout artists.

The ability to preview the result immediately empowers non-designers to create their pages effortlessly, whether starting from scratch or picking up where they left off.

Manual Design and Placement

In Simple Workspace, you can divide your pages into zones and assign offers to each zone. An offer can be associated with several zones. For example, you can have a zone for the photo and price tag at the top, and another area at the bottom for the description and table.

A market manager, for instance, can let their imagination run wild and create a project that can serve as a basis for future steps. In the case of a renewal, to avoid disrupting a layout or to carry out tests, it’s easy to duplicate a project. This allows users to experiment without the risk of creating issues for the layout team.

And let’s not forget the collaborative features like workflows and annotations that make teamwork a breeze. With Simple Workspace, your team can seamlessly collaborate and bring your vision to life.

The grid

The grid tool in Simple Workspace divides pages into regular cells. You can define the number of rows, columns, gutters, and margins. This helps you to place zones precisely, as they will be perfectly aligned thanks to magnetism. For instance, if you drop several products on a page where a grid has been defined, they will automatically be placed in the grid cells.

The runner

“The runner” is the final stage, providing an additional level of turnkey automation. If you specify in advance which pages the offers are to be placed on, the “runner” can set them automatically.

It groups the offers by page, selects the grid based on the number of offers to be placed on the page, creates the zones, and assigns the offers to them.

After this stage, you can switch to manual mode for final adjustments.

Book generation process

When a page layout flows in chained boxes from one page to the next, it typically involves a large table where each line represents an offer. This scenario is well-suited for automation, often achieving close to a 100% success rate. The main task here is determining the order in which the offers are displayed. At any point, Simple Workspace can generate the content and review the result in the preview mode.

Using API

It is always possible to control the placement of offers through APIs. This can be automated by a system that organizes offers from outside the solution. For example, from a PIM interface to generate personalized catalogues for sales representatives (or POS, POP/IOP). Alternatively, it could be an automaton triggered directly from our railroad.

These methods offer ultimate flexibility and do not question the points made earlier. Once the documents have been produced, they can be finalized by hand!

As you can see, we are experts in this field. Contact us ; we will be delighted to help you with your project.

Jean-Yves Jourdain

JY. Jourdain

Cofounder of J2S

(Article from Chez J2S 1/22/2021)

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