I have spent most of this week getting my printed catalog up to date, which has brought back a recurring nightmare for me.
You see, I run a printed catalogue for retail, with prices, a reseller catalogue that is generic without pricing for my resellers, and a web site with buy now buttons for retail, as well as a generic hidden site for resellers.
For years I have been trying to figure a solution that will allow me to do the work once, and publish it to all the different outputs. Even just keeping price changes up to date across all these items is a major effort. I thought I had a solution with Ventura, hooking into a database, alas it is not that simple.
A graphic optimised for the web looks lousy when printed. A print run without prices will have different pagination to one with prices. And yes, a catalog with prices on the page sells better than one with a seperate price list, I've tested.
So, any ideas out there?