Co-Branded Collateral at Scale — From One PDF Template
Your designers create the master layout. PDFDancer swaps in partner logos, names, and contact details via API — preserving every font, color, and layout choice. One template, hundreds of print-ready variants.
The Problem
Manual Versioning Doesn't Scale Past a Handful of Partners
Marketing teams design beautiful collateral — then spend days producing partner-specific versions by hand. Open the InDesign file, swap the logo, update the phone number, export, repeat. For five partners, that's manageable. For fifty or five hundred, it's a bottleneck.
The Bottleneck
- Every partner variant requires a designer to open the source file, make edits, and re-export
- Logo swaps often break alignment, and text changes can shift layouts
- Updating a phone number across 200 versions means touching 200 files
- Design tools aren't APIs — you can't automate InDesign from a web platform or CRM
- Co-branding guidelines vary by partner — one template, many rules
What PDFDancer Changes
- Edits the exported PDF directly — no need to reopen InDesign or the source file
- apply_replacements() swaps text and images at the exact position of the placeholder
- Fonts are preserved automatically — the replacement inherits the formatting of the placeholder
- SDKs for Python, Java, and TypeScript — integrate with your CRM, partner portal, or build pipeline
- One template PDF + a spreadsheet of partner data = hundreds of print-ready variants
Fonts just work. When apply_replacements() swaps a placeholder for real content, the replacement text inherits the original font, size, and color automatically. No font registration, no CSS overrides, no "why did the font change" tickets from your design team.
See It in Action
Swap in Partner Content — in Any Language
Design the template once with placeholders. The SDK swaps in partner-specific logos, names, and contact details. Fonts and layout are preserved automatically.
At Scale
One Template + a CSV = Hundreds of Variants
Loop over a spreadsheet of partner data and produce a branded PDF for each one. The entire batch runs in minutes — no designer in the loop, no manual exports.
Batch Production from Partner Data
Feed in a CSV with partner names, logos, and contact details. Get a folder of print-ready PDFs.
This is the way! Creating templates manually was not practical — we needed to automate. The initial integration with PDFDancer only took a few hours, and the font formatting on our InDesign exports was preserved perfectly.— Marketing technologist, insurance co-branding workflow
Use Cases
One Template. Every Partner. Every Campaign.
Co-Branded Partner Collateral
One master design, dozens or hundreds of partner variants. Insurance co-branding, franchise marketing, channel partner kits — swap logos, names, phone numbers, and URLs while the layout and typography stay pixel-perfect.
Campaign Variant Production
Regional campaigns, A/B test variants, seasonal updates. Change copy, images, and offers across existing PDFs without going back to the design tool every time. Push updates in minutes, not days.
Personalized Direct Mail & Print
Generate thousands of personalized print-ready PDFs from a single template. Names, addresses, account details, QR codes — all placed exactly where the designer intended, with the right fonts preserved.
How It Works
From Design to Production in Three Steps
Design in Your Tool
Create the master layout in InDesign, Canva, or whatever your design team uses. Add shortcode placeholders where variable content goes — {PartnerName}, {Logo}, {Phone}. Export to PDF.
Connect via SDK
Use our Python, Java, or TypeScript SDK to call apply_replacements(). Each placeholder gets swapped for real content — text, images, or logos. Fonts and formatting are preserved automatically.
Produce at Scale
Loop over a CSV, database, or API. Generate hundreds of partner-specific PDFs in a single batch run. Print-ready, pixel-perfect, no manual touches.
Get Started
Send Us a Template. We'll Produce the Variants.
No pitch deck, no generic demo. Send a real PDF template from your marketing workflow — with placeholders or without — and we'll show you what automated co-branding looks like on your actual collateral.