InDesign documents as templates for Document Generation using PDF Services.

[#1]

I know this is probably better off being sent to the PDF Services Support so I will also submit it there if I can find a place. 

Description - Allow the use of InDesign documents as templates for the PDF Services Document Generation Module.

Why is this feature important to you - We require a system that can handle document generation to provide custom on-brand but templated documents to 1000+ stores. Unfortunately, Office documents will not be sufficient. Since we already use Workfront and InDesign quite heavily it would be nice to keep the users in one system.

How would you like the feature to work - It would be great to allow Workfront to be used as a front end to make requests for frequently used document designs. The requestor could fill out a custom form and then get either an InDesign document or a PDF file with the blanks/tokens filled in via Workfront Fusion and the PDF Services Document Generation Module.

Current Behavior - The PDF Services module does not allow InDesign documents.

[#2]

Hello Graham,

We do have exactly the same need, but I am quite sure, that this is a topic for PDF-Services Support.

From Workfront point of view this could be done using Fusion if there would be a fitting API on the other side.

Another possibility could be, that Adobe currently seems to put a lot of effort into the Photoshop API. Perhaps there will be a similar API for InDesign in the near future.

Regards

Lars