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SDL XPP Functionality

CapabilityDescriptionBenefit
Automated background composition
  • Automates composition and pagination by importing and formatting text; placing graphics; creating footnotes, sidebars and tables; and generating tables of contents and indexes
  • Shorten page turnaround time
  • Increase productivity
  • Unattended production
Interactive WYSIWYG editing
  • Full editing capabilities of composed output in both tagged and WYSIWYG views
  • Constrains changes to pages, paragraphs and even lines
  • Shorten page turnaround time
  • Access interactive editing capabilities for quick proofing, style development and edits during production
  • Contain the impact of changes
Sophisticated composition controls
  • User-definable macros and industry standard extensions automate complex formatting, extensive footnote capabilities, robust tabular and math composition and multiple-language hyphenation within a single document
  • Eliminate the manual labor frequently required with desktop programs
  • Improve typographic quality
  • Shorten page turnaround time
XML and SGML support
  • Architecture and tools facilitate the composition of XML and SGML data
  • Formats output based on XML tags and attribute values
  • Capable of exporting XML when required
  • Streamline the process of turning XML, SGML and many other data types into PDF and print-ready Postscript
  • XML available throughout entire workflow
Loose-leaf
  • The most sophisticated range of loose-leaf features on the market: automated loose-leaf processing, creation of List Of Effected Pages (LOEP), creation of change page packets, change marks on delivered pages
  • Provide only changed pages
  • Reconcile pages changed due to edits in XML source data
  • Reduce production costs
Multi-lingual support
  • Provides hyphenation and justification in over 30 languages including Chinese, Korean and Japanese
  • Native Unicode support
  • Simplify administration of multiple style sheets for multiple languages and media
  • Create publications in the supported languages
Multi-channel delivery
  • Formats data to automatically produce Postscript, PDF or XML output from various sources such as databases, XML editors, content management systems or structured word processing files
  • Ensure consistency across delivery channels
  • Shorten turnaround time for cross-media publishing
  • Faster time to market
  • Increase revenue opportunities
Scalability
  • High-speed automation scales readily
  • Increase throughput
Standards
  • Built on XML, SGML and Unicode
  • Available via Web services (SOAP, WSDL)
  • Complies with industry standards such as CALS, ATA, AECMA, DocBook, and others
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of integration
  • Compliance
  • Faster implementations
Extensible
  • Integrates with industry standard tools such as Perl, Omnimark and XSLT
  • Integrate easily with other applications
  • Facilitate use by developers