Simple Workspace
In a few words Allowing any user to use the marketing material means allowing him to control the factory that will produce PDF, Excel, or InDesign documents, according to variable data and parameters.
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/31/2022)
Before Simple Workspace existed, we had developed a number of components that served as the basis for the solutions we developed for our customers. Layout automation was already an issue and the J2S Layout Toolbox family was used for these purposes. Other components completed it. But assembling these bricks was manual. The process made it possible to address various problems, however, even if the bricks were generic, the cement used to bind them was specific. This led to difficulties: the need to call upon development to finalize, the non-compressible manufacturing time, the complexity of maintenance over time, etc.
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/4/2021)
The Flatplan One of the key parts of Simple Workspace is the Simple Brief application, a flatplan created to manage the production of documents in InDesign format.
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/13/2021)
In the previous articles of the ” Building an offer ” series, we first described how to structure the data forms intended to manage the data to be published ( step 1 ), which led us to describe :
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/7/2021)
From writing to layout After homo sapiens invented farming 1, he quickly realized that it was complicated to rely strictly on his memory. Indeed, as exchanges multiplied, how could they keep their accounts up to date? This is how writing was born. We wrote on wax tablets, on papyrus 2, even on parchment rolls. Very quickly, it was no longer just a matter of managing one’s accounts, but also of writing stories. The same person holds all the roles: the author puts his own text on the page; and to disseminate it, it is necessary to recopy, recopy, recopy 3…
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/3/2021)
The role of a software editor is also to plan for future developments. This often leads to incremental improvements and sometimes to more significant revisions.
When preparing the J2S concept in 1999, we identified the need to rewrite the software every 3 years.
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/19/2021)
While rereading my last articles, I came across the following sentence:
– I would like to automate the layout of my documents with Simple Workspace, but how does it work?
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/12/2021)
In the previous article entitled Building an offer, step 1 , we presented a functional approach to model offer sheets according to their use: web, email, RS, catalog, flyer, tags, labels, etc.
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/5/2021)
The analysis of a recent client project in the world of B2C sales reminded us of the extent to which images are at the heart of e-commerce.
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/28/2021)
Again and again, there is not a day that goes by without someone asking me:
– I would like to automate the layout of my documents with Simple Workspace, but how does it work?
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/21/2021)
