Printing and publishing companies worldwide are taking advantage of their ability to find specialists who can relieve them of the cost and burden of all forms of publishing – from brochures to e-books.
From basic functions like data entry, conversion, and digitisation to higher-end operations like content development and data management firms are seeing the benefits of placing these functions in the hands of proven professionals.
Digital Content Solutions’ Publishing Support Services (PSS) offers world-class production support for STM, legal, financial and academic book publishers. PSS delivers consistent quality services right from data capture to XML, SGML and/or HTML, extending to e-publishing through to online journals, e-books and CD ROMs
Pre-press and Digital Typesetting
DCS’s prepress team brings unmatched expertise in manuscript management, copy editing, proof-reading, data entry and digital typesetting in any language, discipline or format.
For digital typesetting, the data can be received in the form of discs, images (scanned) or hard copies (hand-written/printouts). Output is generated in PDF, Post-script or other customer specified format.
Support for Multiple Technologies
DCS supports the latest software to suit the diverse technology platforms of today’s businesses. These include:
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• Pagination software to achieve the best results in content layout
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• TeX and LaTeX for projects requiring heavy mathematical and scientific settings. DCS provides for use of in-house or client generated styles
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• Quark Xpress and InDesign for books, journals, magazines, research reports with extensions for tables and maths settings
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• The range of projects supported includes fiction, columnar texts, academic titles, school textbooks (K1 to K12), children’s books and mathematics books/journals.
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• FrameMaker, with pagination in XML or SGML
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• Automation Software – Xtags, Xpress tags, Autopage, and Powemath
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• Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop for image editing, graphic enrichment, drawing and labelling
Multilingual Support
DCS also offers support in several languages with experience gained catering to globally renowned clients.
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