| Capability |
Description |
Benefit |
| Automated background composition |
- Automates composition and pagination by importing and formatting text; placing graphics; creating footnotes, sidebars and tables; and generating tables of contents and indexes
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- Shorten page turnaround time
- Increase productivity
- Unattended production
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| Interactive WYSIWYG editing |
- Full editing capabilities of composed output in both tagged and WYSIWYG views
- Constrains changes to pages, paragraphs and even lines
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- Shorten page turnaround time
- Access interactive editing capabilities for quick proofing, style development and edits during production
- Contain the impact of changes
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| Sophisticated composition controls |
- User-definable macros and industry standard extensions automate complex formatting, extensive footnote capabilities, robust tabular and math composition and multiple-language hyphenation within a single document
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- Eliminate the manual labor frequently required with desktop programs
- Improve typographic quality
- Shorten page turnaround time
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| XML and SGML support |
- Architecture and tools facilitate the composition of XML and SGML data
- Formats output based on XML tags and attribute values
- Capable of exporting XML when required
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- Streamline the process of turning XML, SGML and many other data types into PDF and print-ready Postscript
- XML available throughout entire workflow
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| Loose-leaf |
- The most sophisticated range of loose-leaf features on the market: automated loose-leaf processing, creation of List Of Effected Pages (LOEP), creation of change page packets, change marks on delivered pages
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- Provide only changed pages
- Reconcile pages changed due to edits in XML source data
- Reduce production costs
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| Multi-lingual support |
- Provides hyphenation and justification in over 30 languages including Chinese, Korean and Japanese
- Native Unicode support
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- Simplify administration of multiple style sheets for multiple languages and media
- Create publications in the supported languages
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| Multi-channel delivery |
- Formats data to automatically produce Postscript, PDF or XML output from various sources such as databases, XML editors, content management systems or structured word processing files
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- Ensure consistency across delivery channels
- Shorten turnaround time for cross-media publishing
- Faster time to market
- Increase revenue opportunities
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| Scalability |
- High-speed automation scales readily
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- Increase throughput
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| Standards |
- Built on XML, SGML and Unicode
- Available via Web services (SOAP, WSDL)
- Complies with industry standards such as CALS, ATA, AECMA, DocBook, and others
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- Ease of use
- Ease of integration
- Compliance
- Faster implementations
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| Extensible |
- Integrates with industry standard tools such as Perl, Omnimark and XSLT
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- Integrate easily with other applications
- Facilitate use by developers
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