Advanced Print Publisher with Arbortext
Advanced Print Publisher is used throughout the world to automate the production of complex printed documents such as STM (Scientific/Technical/Medical) journals, legal documents, technical documentation, catalogs and directories. In addition to reducing costs and production time, automation also gives publishers the flexibility to update information more frequently and to produce publications in more variations for multiple target audiences.Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher comes in two versions, Enterprise (formerly 3B2 Enterprise Server) and Desktop (formerly 3B2 Desktop). The Desktop version gives users three key capabilities: create the templates (also called stylesheets) that control document layout; initiate the automated publishing of a document; and manually adjust each page’s layout after publishing.The Enterprise version provides fully unattended publishing through a server-based system that can optionally run multiple simultaneous publishing jobs on additional servers in the same local area network. You can increase the number of simultaneous publishing jobs by purchasing a license for each additional job. The Enterprise version provides server functionality such as queue management, priority handling and load balancing. The Enterprise version can be purchased standalone or as an add-on to Arbortext Publishing Engine.Templates that you create in the Desktop version may be used for publishing in both the Desktop and Enterprise versions. And you can use the Desktop version to touch up documents published by both the Desktop and Enterprise versions.There are two typical implementations of Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher:
- Attended: Each author uses the Desktop version (one copy for each author) to create templates, initiate publishing, and touch up the result
- Unattended: Each author uses Arbortext Editor (one copy for each author) to create content, and a designer uses the Desktop version to create templates. An Enterprise server performs publishing, and a production manager uses the Desktop version to touch up the result.
Key Benefits Increased Efficiency By automating processes and eliminating content conversions, you can improve productivity and increase the efficiency of your publishing process Reduced Production Costs Reducing manual effort and eliminating unnecessary tasks enables you to reduce your publishing costs High Quality and Consistency Automated, single source publishing ensures that your information is consistent across all types of documents and media, and Advanced Print Publisher’s high-quality output ensures high-quality, professional publications. Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher Desktop provides the user interface to creating templates and touching up finished documents; both products perform publishing, but Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher Enterprise performs unattended publishing in a server-based environment. Features Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher provides a sophisticated solution that helps customers reduce overall publication production costs and shorten production turnaround time, thereby ensuring fast time to market for their publications and timely information delivery. Complex Page Layouts The Desktop version lets you create templates that specify the formatting of each element of the document. You can apply the same formatting to all elements of the same type, or you can create rules that vary the formatting based on many factors such as the element’s position in the document, its relative position to other elements, its content, the content of other elements, and so on. Within a template, you can also specify automatic generation of text, varying from simple items such as bullets and numbering to complex manipulations such as tables of contents, lists of figures, lists of tables, and indexes. Large Volumes The Enterprise version has been stress tested to 2 million formatted pages per day Manual Post-composition Touch-up The Desktop version allows manual adjustment of documents published in both the Desktop and Enterprise versions. This allows you to fine-tune your document’s design and squeeze the layout to reduce page count and printing costs. Multiple Languages Unicode support handles most multi-lingual requirements including all languages with Latin-based alphabets, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Arabic, Hebrew and Cyrillic languages Customization You can fully customize these products to meet your specific requirements Standards-based, Open Architecture Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher supports international standards including SGML, XML, XSLT, XPath and SVG and provides an open interface to third-party software products. This enables customers to easily integrate Advanced Print Publisher with a wide range of database management, content management and information technology products they employ in their workflows. Advanced Print Publisher embraces XML/SGML standards to create end-to-end standards compliance in the composition process. Due to its native support for XML, no pre-processing or file conversion steps are required to bring in content from other information systems. Related Products Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher Enterprise may run under the control of Arbortext Publishing Engine or standalone. Customers who produce only print documents should consider purchasing the standalone Enterprise version. Customers who produce publications in both print and electronic forms, or customers who produce publications in many variations, should purchase the Enterprise version as well as Arbortext Publishing Engine.
