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Collaborative Online Publishing Tool
With the advent and proliferation of Internet,
it is a must requirement these days to work and collaborate
remotely. Also the future of software appears to be directed
toward the "rent rather than buy" mentality. Softmagic's
network-based page composition server called PageServer provides
the ASP business model for the publishing industry. Heretofore
the publishing process has been bottlenecked at the layout stage
where all the elements necessary for the pagination have to
be ready for a layout editor. This resulted in the discreet
workflow in which an writer or a photographer does not have
much control over final output and a layout editor having an
excessive pressure at the last minute. PageServer is revolutionary
new editing solution that lets you lay out and edit publications
over the Internet using only your browser.
Finally, DTP (Desktop Publishing) has come a way of WTP (Webtop
Publishing).
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Until now, any changes to a publication had to be performed
by the layout designer, creating a long queue, an unnecessary
bottleneck and finally a delay. But now with PageServer, a publication
can be sectioned off and delegated to individual writers, editors
and advertisers. They can then edit their sections either locally
or from remote, using just their Web browsers. PageServer instantly
repaginates the whole layout and the changes are reflected immediately
for others to see.
By leveraging the platform-independent power of the Internet
and PDF, PageServer frees you and your staff from being locked
into one type of hardware or software platform. A story can
begin locally on a Macintosh and later edited remotely from
a PC. You only need a Web browser. And the resulting document
is a PDF that can go directly to press. No more missing fonts
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PageServer Engine |
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PageServer’s core engine is based on MLayout. All of MLayout’s
powerful templating features are available through PageServer,
letting you automate document processing via the web. |
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PageServer Web Frontend |
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PageServer Web frontend is a web application that provides
various publication services to users depending on their task.
Business card, calendar, brochure, flyer,
The nature of large publications requires outsourcing of many
tasks to specialists who are working from remote. For example,
writer is in Seattle, editor in New York, photographer in Los
Angeles and designer in Miami. PageServer is a centralized collaboration
tool that brings them all together for a project, yet allowing
them to work in their preferred environments. And because it
brings them together using the most intuitive, visual interface,
everyone is literally on the same page. Much of the redundant
emails, faxes, telephone calls can be eliminated. This means
time saved could be put to better use for creativity and polishing
your publication.
A designer prepares a prototype template of a desired layout,
with images and dummy text. Then, all the writer or photographer
would need to do is to upload the contents, PageServer fits
them all into their allotted spaces and automatically prepares
the layout.
Corrections can be applied at any time, until it is finalized.
You can view it in either PDF or JPEG format, export it in high-resolution
PDF for commercial printing or as HTML for web.
All this, done through a single
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