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The impact of the web and the on-line world has hit all publishers hard. New demands arrive with increasing regularity: alternative media formats, parallel production flows and simultaneous delivery to market; a need for product differentiation; a constantly changing competitive environment with new players, new media and tougher competition.
As a result, publishers, production groups and suppliers are struggling to keep abreast, never mind forge the way. The new rules require ever more frequent product revisions, coupled with shorter delivery schedules necessitating shorter production cycles, all alongside of earnings and revenue pressures.
How can publishers resolve the seemingly conflicting goals of cross media publishing, cost reduction, and shorter time to market? Many are adopting xml as a fundamental component of their strategy to accomplish those objectives.
Successful publishers will choose powerful yet simple to use tools that are adaptable and can be adjusted to meet their evolving requirements.
As they seek integrated xml workflow solutions and components which mesh well with their myriad production processes many are seeing XML ToolWorks from Media entities as a good fit.
Book Publishers
Whether you outsource it all, from writing and design to production, or do everything in-house, there's a place for XML ToolWorks somewhere in your workflow.
External writers and editors do not need new software. XML ToolWorks can convert standard Word files at some later point in the workflow to meet your requirement.
Designers and production staff are freed up from the repetitive, time consuming, tedious tasks of production allowing them to concentrate on more challenging tasks such as design and layout.
If you need simultaneous delivery of several media formats, XML ToolWorks permits parallel production streams for print and electronic media - before the final copy is ready.
Publishers seeking to convert archive material to xml find the perfect answer in Export-only XML ToolWorks.
Magazine Publishers
XMl ToolWorks works well for many different type of magazine applications. Highly-designed magazines with many layout changes appreciate the power of XML ToolWorks to deal with complex layouts. Our interactive export tool option makes perfect export painless and fast.
For magazines using more straightforward design, or for those that use templated-pages, the text import is highly automated and breathtakingly fast. Placeholders are used for copy reservation and xml flows to the pages in seconds with perfect styling. Edits and revisions can occur in either the layout package, or in Word, with updates to the source file from either package.
Catalog Publishers
Catalog producers benefit from the ability of XML ToolWorks to maintain placeholders and update the layout page instantly from any xml file whether it's from a single source or multiple sources. Any changes made on the layout page can update the database.
Journals and STM Publishers
Journals and STM publishers often seek to publish to print and electronic versions simultaneously, a key capability of XMl ToolWorks. Additionally, the special requirements for STM publishing, such as MathML, complex tables, special characters, footnotes and bibliographic material, are built-in to XML ToolWorks. Our ability to produce one-step valid xml to any dtd without the need for xslt processing is unique in the industry.
Beyond the functionality of XML ToolWorks, our Word Plug-Ins, the "Preflighter" and "Bibliographer" tools help STM publishers streamline the process of getting manuscript to print and electronic media simultaneously.
Newspapers
Whether it's Web-to-Print, ADSML or NEWSML, converting archive material, or rapidly filling template pages with variable text, XML ToolWorks helps newspapers meet deadlines.
Our modular solutions for Quark XPress, and InDesign plug-in easily to newspaper editorial and advertising systems. And because of it's versatility, XML ToolWorks meets your requirements for either roundtrip, import-only, or export-only workflows.
Our ability to produce xml to any dtd means that while we easily produce xml complying with the current specifications of ADSML or NEWSML, you can equally be comfortable that however these standards evolve, XML ToolWorks software can adapt to the new requirements.
If you are using InDesign and want to add any kind of metadata to either advertising or editorial story components our customizable and searchable, metadata editor "MetaNotes" is the solution for which you've been waiting.
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