| We have been creating delight for our clients, who are the who’s who of the global publishing industry, universities around the world and Fortune 500 companies. |
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| Our range of pre-press services include: |
| A. Template Creation/Design |
Once you have finalized the concept, leave it to our talented and experienced team to create the templates that set the rules for every subsequent stage in the pre-press process. They will ensure that the final product is the true embodiment of your conceptual vision. They will do it, moreover, in whatever pre-press software you specify.
Template creation/design includes: |
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Setting up the page layout (recto/verso) |
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Creating master pages complete with headers and footers |
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Writing scripts to define every element given in the project specifications |
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Creation of styles for formatting the content |
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| Our design processes incorporate your close and continuous involvement at every stage. All designs will be constantly reviewed by you and every care will be taken to ensure that the final design does indeed represent your vision. |
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| B. Keyboarding |
| We have an excellent data entry team that has the experience and skills required to deliver quick, accurate, and efficient output when data conversion fails or is not an option. Keying can be single or double. |
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| C. Page Composition and Typesetting |
We understand that each client has unique requirements. We pride ourselves in our ability to understand your specific needs and use our expertise, skills and processes to create pages that are perfect for your preferred output media.
We are also constantly investing skills and technologies that streamline the “computer to plate” process in order to minimize the time to print.
We compose pages utilizing cutting edge technology. We are implementing technological services that would allow you to preview and update the composed pages via FTP.
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Composition of pages in Adobe FrameMaker and conversions using FrameMaker (MML, MIF, CRC, XML) |
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Composition of pages in Adobe InDesign and conversions using InDesign (InDesign Tagged Text & XML) |
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Composition of pages in Quark Xpress and conversions using Quark Xpress (XTG & XML) Composition in TeX/LaTeX (XML) |
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Composition in 3B2 (ASCII & XML) |
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| D. Image management |
| Scanning |
The scanning services that we provide are comprenensive. We have the skills and the technological expertise handle scanning for both monotones and color halftones.
Currently, we use the following types of scanners: |
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Flatbed Scanners |
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Microfilm Scanners |
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Drum Scanners |
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| Redrawing and relabelling |
| Our scanning capabilities include graphic origination for linearts and lines and tones, which also involves relabelling and redrawing to the highest standard. |
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| Disk processing and color corrections |
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Global font change |
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Conversion of RGB to CMYK or Grayscale (BW) |
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Resizing and Cropping Images |
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Correcting existing callouts |
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Adding additional callouts |
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Resizing with additional manipulation |
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Handling change to design or content |
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Color correcting of Raster Images |
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Colorization of raster line drawing |
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Conversion of RGB to CMYK or Grayscale (BW) |
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| Rendering of comp-set art |
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Rendering line art, complex 3-D elements and line art clip arts images |
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Line Drawings rendered in flat or perspective style |
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Rendering of Mathematical images (i.e. cones, cubes, spheres etc.) |
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Line graphs, Bar graphs, Pie graphs with 3D effect |
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Recreating art from rough hand drawn, computer generated or tear sheet manuscripts |
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Generating chemical structure from rough manuscript |
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| SGML and XML workflows |
We use our optimized workflows to deliver multiple-format output from a single data input file. This ensures data integrity and minimizes the project duration.
We also provide integration services to implement Adobe FrameMaker + SGML and develop EDDs to format FrameMaker + SGML documents, build Read/Write rules to successfully translate data on import or export, and develop style templates. We can define and setup integration with Adobe Acrobat, HTML, XML output or automated printing. |
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| Creative art rendering |
Our team of experienced and creative designers are qualified in graphic designing and architecture. They create artwork based on the color scheme chosen for your targeted end user.
Our graphic artists are highly skilled and experienced, having worked on a remarkable range of digital graphics, tables, graphs, maps, technical drawings, etc. The team also works on touching up and rendering art for reprint books. The colours used are handled with great care and the final output is matched with the inputs. You get to see multiple proofs of the art thus rendered/touched up before final delivery. Our team will incorporate whatever changes or improvements you want. No matter how many times we have to do it, we will keep going back to the drawing board to ensure that the final output is exactly as you want it.
Our software skills range from Word for plain pictorials to Illustrator for complicated decorative arts. |
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| Illustrations & Line Art |
| We also create outstanding Illustrations and Line Art for the following genres: |
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Corporate Illustrations |
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Natural Science Illustrations |
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Biological Illustrations |
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Engineering Illustrations |
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Mathematical graphs and charts |
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Logo Creations |
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| Book Pages Design (Inner and Cover pages design) |
| Our graphics design team also excels at planning and creating page/book cover designs. They make every effort to understand the requirements and the needs of the market before choosing color schemes that suit the feel of the book. They then produce progressive multiple designs which are sent to you for approval. |
