Composition Services

Innodata Isogen provides cost-effective composition services at scale to the leading publishing and information services companies.

Publishers and information-intensive enterprises alike are continually searching for new ways to speed print production time and lower cost per page. Fortunately, most textbooks, journals and trade books are consistent in style and therefore don't require extensive page-by-page intervention. This makes them well-suited for automated publishing.

Enter InnodataIsogen. Designed to ease the production of these rules-based publications, our composition offering provides an innovative and cost-effective solution for publishers seeking to reduce costs and ensure style consistency in batch production runs.

Big Potential Savings

In addition to potential savings of up to 30 percent, or even 50 percent in some cases, our offering also enables clients to better manage content and style assets, reducing the costs and risks associated with switching vendors or changing technologies during the batch composition process.

For example, we recently helped a publisher of travel guides convert the publications from one format to another, significantly reducing its typesetting costs.

We're also working with a leading publisher of handbooks and legal manuals to help them transfer a PDF-based document workflow to HTML and then automate the composition process through our hosted composition platform, which will allow the publisher's staff to upload content via our Web interface.

Another key benefit of our offering is its ability to deliver on the full promise of the on-demand value proposition. For example, we can help publishers transform composition into a standardized business process.Our Web-based project management tool allows editors and production staff to upload XML source materials directly into the composition engine. Finally, the on-demand platform enables publishers to ramp-up quickly, without the start-up involved in deploying a new system.

Contact us to learn more about how our composition services can help you speed production time and lower costs.

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Since its inception in 1933, Practising Law Institute (PLI) has served professionals in law and related fields with the up-to-date information they need to maintain a professional edge. It publishes about 75 treatises and 200 course handbooks totaling about 250,000 pages each year. Besides printed material, content is distributed through the institute’s Web site and by third-party content aggregators. Adding to the demand are the increasing number of states that require lawyers to maintain minimum continuing education requirements... Read More