: Help with best programme for re-designing catalogue I'm not a design professional but I've been using PS Elements to layout our work product catalogue. However, even though it's easy to move

@Berryessa866

Here's a workflow which will allow you to salvage what you have:


place each Photoshop document in Adobe InDesign on the correct page
as pages are edited, send the PSD to a non-printing background template layer and lock it
open the .psd files in Photoshop to copy the text out and paste it in and re-create the pages (you could dupe the PSD using a _notext filename after hiding all the text to preserve the photos and so forth)


Alternately, to re-create the whole thing:


open your .psd files in Adobe Illustrator using settings which discard Photoshop effects and preserve text as text
from AI, save as a basic .pdf
concatenate all of the .pdfs together
use a tool to convert PDFs into InDesign documents (I think Markzware has one)


That said, 120 pages isn't all that many --- I'd really suggest breaking down and re-creating. If it was done in Photoshop, it probably needs a re-design anyway. Moreover, you'll want to look up / use the following things in InDesign:


master pages
text variables (including folios)
paragraph and character styles
cross references
index markers and index generation
Table of Content generation

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