[strogonoff]

I agree that InDesign generally is clunky (the same reason it has a lot of typesetting black magic: business model where you make money by satisfying requests of perfectionist designers and their managers). However, in the past, while I was still doing relevant work, I had mild success abstracting some of it out by defining a template and populating it with data imported from JSON.

Now I’m not using ID much, and struggling with generating PDFs from HTML, so I really appreciated the example you gave. Great work!