
Innodata Isogen's new Batch Composition Service provides an innovative solution for publishers seeking to reduce costs and ensure style consistency in batch production runs.
In addition to enabling clients to produce multiple deliverables such as high-resolution and Web-based PDF documents, our hosted technology platform will also allow clients to better manage content and style assets, greatly minimizing the risks associated with switching vendors or changing technologies during the batch composition process.
Using TALS™ (Tool Agnostic Layout System) to capture batch layout and formatting requirements, the Innodata Isogen solution enables centralized management of Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (formerly 3B2), XPP, and XSL-FO composition workflows with no additional technology or staff required.
While this solution can benefit a wide range of publishing operations, it's perfectly suited for rules-based publications such as textbooks and scientific, medical and technical journals. These publications are also under tremendous pressure to cut costs, which makes a solution like TALS even more timely.
In fact, this solution will enable publishers to realize a host of benefits:
Our new batch page composition offering enables publishers to reduce costs by minimizing the amount of labor required to capture basic composition requirements. Translating XML composition requirements into platform specific style assets saves an estimated 50% of the cost required to create those assets.