Since Publisher currently does not support merging I was wondering what sort of options we would have for a workaround? Is there any documentation of the format of afpub? I was thinking I could potentially write a tool to generate a file that would walk a data source, create elements, size them and place them on pages, then apply the appropriate master page to the page. From there I could open it in Publisher and modify it appropriately.
Alternatively is there (or will there be) api or plugin support where we could develop such a plugin independently?
I am developing a Card game and being able to merge from my content source database (or csv export) would make this a perfect product.