InDesign : Catalogue automatisé

Bonjour tout le monde.
Permettez moi de vous expliquer ma situation :
Actuellement en stage en tant qu'infographiste dans une entreprise de vente en ligne, je dois faire un catalogue pdf sous InDesign.
Je dispose des toutes les informations nécessaires vis à vis des articles dans un fichier .csv. Avec la fusion de données, tout marche très bien.
Seulement voilà : mon patron souhaiterais pouvoir mettre à jour ce catalogue chaque semaine environ. Or, ce catalogue contient évidement une page de garde et des "intercalaires" pour séparé le séparer en plusieurs (séparation selon es catégories d'articles), ce qui ne peut être insérer automatiquement par la fusion de données. Les ajoutés manuellement chaque semaine serait trop long.
Ma question est donc la suivante : Connaissez-vous un script ou un plugin qui permettrait d'automatiser ce genre d'actions sur InDesign ? (hormis EasyCatalog, bien trop chèr par rapport à notre besoin).
Je vous remercie d'avance !

Re bonjour,
Merci pour votre réponse ^^
Je suis passé du .csv au XML, grâce à Excel.
J'ai pu obtenir une structure logique en accord avec la structure souhaité pour notre catalogue :
<produits>
     <categorie>Catégorie
          <produit>
               <nom>Nom</nom>
               <ref>Référence</ref>
               <image href="file://..." />
          </produit>
          <produit>
     </categorie>
</produits>
Mon document InDesign comporte cette même structure, mais sans utiliser de DTD, j'ai simplement balisé mon document.
Basiquement, la fusion marche, dans le sens où toutes les informations désirées s'affiche.
Seulement, il semble que la programmation XML (et plus précisement l'utilisation du XML dans InDesign) soit plus compliqué que je ne l'aurais pensé... (Je ne connaissais même pas l'existance du XLST...).
Bref, je bloque sur 2 choses simples : insérer des sauts de page automatique à la fin de chaque catégorie d'articles, et redimentionner automatiquement les blocs image.
Malgrès des recherches je ne trouve pas de solution...
Le XLST permet-il d'insérer des sauts de page forcés pour InDesign ? Ou tout autre méthode pemettant d'y parvenir...
Merci

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