Client:
The Society of the Cincinatti
Project Name: Annual Member
Directory
Description: The Society
of the Cincinatti is an historic organization of descendants
of American Revolutionary War participants. The Society
prints a member’s directory classifying its roster
of members by constituents societies, geographical location
necrology and other criteria, and identifying individual
members and their predecessors by address, title and attributes
such as military honors received. All of this data is consolidated
into an intricate directory of several hundred pages where
members often appear in multiple chapters according to classification.
For this project CPS executed both page layout and printing.
To save time and ensure accuracy of the printed piece, a
bespoke database was created to receive the detailed information
provided by The Society. Using XML markup language, a series
of sorting rules were encoded to classify the data into
the various categories and create unique XML files for each
chapter. At the same time, master pages and paragraph styles
were created in Adobe Indesign and tagged to the corresponding
XML file name. By then importing the presorted data as XML
code instead of text, typeface styling, the page layout
was almost completely automated, avoiding what would otherwise
require countless hours of tedious text styling, insertion
of paragraph breaks and editing by hand.
Key Challenges: With tens
of thousands of individual bits of data and crossover of
the data into multiple classifications, it was necessary
to write and test the sorting code carefully to ensure an
accurate result. Tests were conducted whereby the entire
book was digitally published and reviewed in pdf format
before accepting that the data was all precisely correct.
Techniques Used: XML workflow,
Offset Printing, Perfect Binding
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