That sounds like it requires extensive and intense “product knowledge”. No doubt you were good in outside sales and management if you can create catalogues and promos.
I’m a numbers person. I’ll just keep the books for various companies that I have built a relationship with thru the years.
I sure hope I won’t need Quark!! That maybe above my paygrade, lol.
Quark is the easy part of the task. The real heavy lifting is getting the data string in shape to import. Once it is organized I can import 500 pages of data in less than 3 minutes. Then takes a while to clean up the columns and tabs that the extrusion process does not place properly.
The data stream is a total IT hack. The repeat process, is my own design. Once I have done a catalog section or promotion, I have developed a method to extract the item sequence from the .pdf document. Using PDFTK and Grep. Then through a database. Works great, use same process to extract page numbers for the items in the section. Requires a little preconditioning of the .pdf to take care of the repeating “1’s” in the document. (proportional spacing issue)
Anyway, it take some time.