ProjectM (by SoftMagic) is a modular-designs application for publishing industry runs on Mac OS X. It consists of six modules - Media Plan, Issue Plan, Book Assembler, e-Desk, MLayout and Send Story. It offers the comprehensive publishing work-flow from editorial, design, layout, formatting, approving, mark-up, progress tracing etc. It is fully customizable for different company's work-flow, setting up a real electronic and automation working environment, eliminating redundant works, maximizing the productivity and resulting in cost-saving. Our service includes:
Cross-department Workflow Analysis of your company, understanding the business characteristics, the culture and identifying the overlapped works in different departments
Planning of high-efficiency but feasible work-flow
Customization of ProjectM / MLayout adapting the planning
It could be a night-mare when tonnes of data needed to print on a book, creating tonnes of work consuming a lot of time, man-power and money to deal with them. Exporting data from database, convert them into text format, layout, formatting, proof-reading and amending again again and again.... ensuring no mistakes in the contents then finally output. But our Database-to-Publish Solution is different - you can now put data directly from the database to a book!
Here below are some sound usage:
Stock Research Report contains a lot of data needed to be collected in the last minutes;
Yellow Page Phone Directory can have more styles neatly show-up the data rather than just 'plain text';
Classified Post - People don't have to post their ad by fax but thru your website. Data are input by the user, saved in the Server and ready to output. No data-input (by your side), no proof-reading needed. You can even use the payment gateway to do online payment to facilitate a true man-free work-flow!
Other examples like Price Book, Catalog, Member Directory etc.
The advantages of Database-to-Publish Solution:
Print Data = Source Data - Data are extracting out and mapping to the layout, therefore the data on the printout will be the same as the data in your database. This can avoid human-mistakes caused by traditional DTP and ensuring the preciseness of the information on the final printout.
Time Saving whilst Cost Saving - In contrast to traditional DTP, our Solution does not need donkeywork. One time only layouting, no repeating proof-reading, no amending required save a great deal of time and man-power, and therefore your money.
Support any Database - We support any type of database such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Access etc.
Support Multi-language - We support English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and other 12 languages.
NGI-DbP Server Data Security - If you have sensitive data need to be print, NGI-DbP Server could make you keep your data, layout, and all the printout contents at your server. The Server will generate PDF file and send to a output bureau just before printing.
MLayout is the latest released page layout application runs on Mac OS X. As the layout module of ProjectM, it offers basic and advance operation of DTP like PageMaker or QuarkXpress do. However, MLayout is more than that. Its unique features such as modeling, GIM, XML import, HTML output enormously increase productivity for your company.
We offer on-site training for MLayout for your staffs. Training will be customized for every company fits different needs. Topics include:
Introduction to MLayout
Basic Operation - text handling, graphics handling, import text and XML, applying model and GIM etc.
ProjectM Integration