Create data sheets with RagTime (Video Tutorial)

09/30/2012

Inventory & style sheets

• Paragraph and character settings
  
• Paragraph settings are usually bound to the corporate design
• Fonts, sizes, etc.
• Few formats, e.g. CopyText, CopyTextHeavy, etc.

Created PDF

• Several data sheets required, one for each product
  
• Further requirements: German, English, and French language versions, more on demand
  

Data sheet layout – structure

• Image
• Copytext
  
• Product benefits
  
• System requirements
  
• Product features
  

Master layout

• Two pages, main page and second page featuring details
• Third page used for overflow text of pages 1 & 2
• Changes in the master layout are automatically applied in all data sheets
  

Inventory

• One folder per data sheet
  
• Several components per data shee, organized in folder

New data sheet

• New components, layout, the master layout is inherited
  
• Drag & drop of individual components
  
• Edit red markers in copytext and fixate per paragraph format
  

PDF export

• In any case with Acrobat Distiller
• The advantage are compressed PDFs
• Images are limited or converted to a certain resolution
• RagTime transparencies are preserved (using Distiller)

Summary

• Create a basic layout once
• Works very well over many data sheets since years
  
• High-quality PDF generation
  
• The RagTime price of 800.00 € is a small investment compared to the benefit and production security
• Extremly productive

Here's a video which visualizes the items above.

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