Composition & Publishing Services (CPS)
Key Capabilities:
- Composition
- Project/Author Management
- Copy Editing and Proofreading
- Design
- Pre-Media Services
A combination of content management and information processing with advanced typographic and pagination capabilities has made DSCS a leading service provider to the publishing industry for more than 25 years. We provide total prepress and electronic composition services for a large variety of publication formats across all subject areas, on a scale that ranges from desktop publishing to high-speed automated batch composition.
The ability to virtually render any tagged file format into a press-ready composed volume is ideal for publishers of structured documents and databases but also provides efficiencies to less structured publications. Our experience in producing publications with complex text and graphics, tabular data, multi-level indexes, equations and mathematical formulas can be applied to journals, buyers' guides, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and loose-leaf publications.
Composition & Publishing Services examples:
Large Government Entity: Multi-Volume Reference Guide
Challenge:
- Turn a database containing more than two million complex bibliographic records into 8,000 fully composed pages.
- Pages must be ready for printing and binding within one week of final database release, including a proofing cycle.
- Data is not ordered for print, nor is it sorted or arranged for the desired output format.
Solution:
- Develop programs to transform records into print-ordered, semantic XML format ready for validation and further processing.
- Sort and prepare XML content into composition-ready input files.
- Create a custom publishing solution to process the derived XML into fully composed pages with dynamically generated dictionary headings.
- Generate laser proofs and print-ready .pdf files for delivery to printer.
Results:
- Replace legacy system with a new efficient, timely and cost-effective process.
- Create an efficient method for future editions of a revenue-producing product.
- Save considerable time and money.
International Publisher: Drug Guide
Challenge:
- Create a system to leverage the content of more than 1,000 drug monographs for multiple print and on-line products.
- Solution needs to support a collaborative editorial process that includes pharmacologists, copy editors and production personnel.
Solution:
- Develop XML data transformation programs that support the editorial process and facilitate production of the time-sensitive print products.
- Deliver fully assembled pages and automatically generated indexes that yield print-ready PDF files, meeting stringent deadlines without compromising data quality.
Results:
- A new system with improved content validation capabilities.
- Intelligent data descriptions automate tasks that were performed manually and prone to errors.
- Multiple print products produced faster to meet competitive time-to-market challenges with greater data integrity.
Publisher: Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook
Challenge:
- Create an information management system to support a flexible, dynamic sourcebook directory and companion website for an educational publisher.
- Publisher has never produced a directory of this kind before.
Solution:
- Design a database and companion web-based data collection site to support company profiles and multiple category listings for print and on-line directory.
- Develop a comprehensive, easy-to-use system to support revenue generation through dynamic expanded (paid) listings and ad placement options, with electronic fulfillment, and flexibility for growth to expand the market in mind.
Results:
- Enhanced listing participation and advertising make sourcebook profitable in its first year of publication.
- Print circulation exceeds 175,000 copies.
International Professional Organization: Printed and Online Directories
Challenge:
- Create a system to improve collection, management and dissemination of valuable information for one of the largest professional membership organizations in the world.
- Data includes more than 700 institutions and 13,000 staff member profiles for a directory and companion website.
Solution:
- Provide a web-based data collection and review system that enables members to update information on line and review the content before publication.
- Develop processes to deliver press-ready PDFs and web-ready content for the companion website.
Results:
- New electronic workflow solution replaces a slower, more costly and paper-intensive manual process, significantly lowering editorial costs.
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