PDF catalogue generation

A catalogue from the data you already have

By the time a catalogue is numbered, everything it needs is in Selloff: descriptions, estimates, categories, lot numbers and photos. Producing the catalogue should not mean copying it all again.

PDF catalogue in a few clicks

From the catalogue page, the PDF catalogue is generated in the order you applied to the lots. Its layout comes from an editable template in the document engine: title and first page, the columns of the lots table (lot number, reference, heading, description, alternative texts, estimates, main image or all images, categories, tags, a custom field), which scan types to include, grouping by category over several levels, one to six images per row and a maximum image height. Large catalogues are generated in the background. A numbering list can also be printed for the saleroom and, after the sale, the prices realised list as a PDF, with or without unsold lots, or as an XLSX file.

Page layout in InDesign

For a designed print catalogue, the XML export delivers the lot texts, category levels and page-number markers, and the images are exported alongside. With EasyCatalog in Adobe InDesign, and the Adobe scripts available on request, the layout places in-text images, fills the photo pages and replaces the markers with page numbers. Catalogue image sizes, set per lot, define how each photo is resized, its maximum width and height in millimetres, and whether it goes in the text or on a photo page.

Exports for every destination

Export templates turn a catalogue, or a whole sale, into data files and image sets for printers, partners and platforms: CSV, XLSX, JSON or XML, images renamed with patterns such as the lot number, in original, medium or thumbnail size. Ready-made templates are provided, and fields can be mapped, cleaned or transformed in your own. Finished PDFs of the catalogue, terms of sale and prices realised can be attached to the catalogue for publishing online.