Newbook's Technical Publishing Solutions benefit from a wealth of experience and skills gained through many years of publishing systems development and support. XML and SGML are key architectural components of our solutions, which focus on content creation as well as its ongoing management and publishing requirements. Newbook Technical Publishing Solutions are designed and implemented with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach that accommodates the ever-present production deadlines of commercial and technical publishing.

Database Authoring and Publishing Solutions
Newbook’s Database Authoring and Publishing Solutions framework transforms a relational database management system (RDBMS) into a versatile, cost-effective platform that provides operational benefits as well as new product-offering opportunities to technical publishers. Features include:

• Best of breed commercial XML editing tools as a consistent content authoring environment for both text and relational data
• A Web-browser based authoring preview and QA capability that effectively allows content creators to review their ‘in progress’ work in the context of the entire assembled information product
• Automated print and web publishing functionality using standard XML transformation and rendering technology to support “print-on-demand” and real-time database publishing.
• Support for custom database extracts via standard database query capabilities and data transformation/validation tools. This feature enables publishers to offer additional commercial products in XML for customers to seamlessly integrate into their own information systems.

Print Composition Solutions
Newbook’s Print Composition Solutions provide a level of formatting accuracy, page fidelity, style consistency and maximum throughput that technical information publishers require.

Newbook possesses years of experience and expertise with leading print composition tools such as Arbortext 3B2 and Adobe Framemaker. Newbook also designs and produces production-ready, automated print composition solutions using open standards such as XSL-FO. Our solutions can be deployed in a desktop configuration or in a back-end, automated batch configuration.

Newbook’s print composition solutions include:

• Design and development of effective style templates, complex search and replace functions, and time-saving automation scripts
• Capability for high-volume, high typographical quality automated processing
• Support for diverse input processing streams such as plain-text, XML or SGML, or TeX;
• A WYSIWYG editing capability, while ensuring structural validation (e.g. DTD compliance) throughout the production cycle, even for last minute changes
• Comprehensive math and equation support (MathML, LaTeX)
• Capability to handle the most complex table rendering requirements

Electronic Publishing Solutions
Newbook provides a full range of Electronic Publishing Solutions designed for commercial publishers, manufacturers who must publish product support information, as well as small to medium sized organizations who publish industry-specific information.

Our solutions provide intellectual property protection, security, and support for subscription-based distribution. CD-ROM/DVD solutions provide support for incremental revisions and updates and can be integrated with web-based delivery to provide a “multi-channel” publishing solution. When the source data is XML or SGML, Newbook’s electronic publishing solutions can be integrated with the content creation process to provide print, CD-ROM/DVD and web output from a single set of source data.

Newbook electronic publishing solutions involve a product requirements analysis and design phase, which identifies the customer’s core business objectives. An appropriate technology platform is then selected from “best-of-breed”, leading commercial tools such as FAST NXT and Folio, Arbortext E3, or Newbook’s own cross-platform, browser-based Newbook Publisher Framework. A “product build” phase then focuses on meeting those business objectives and establishing a production process for the information product. This production process may be transferred to the customer or Newbook may continue to provide on going production support services.

Production Support Services
Newbook has established production support and service relationships with many of its customers. These engagements can be short-term, focusing on critical and specialized components of a larger project, or a longer term, full-service, production support engagement. Long-term production support may span the entire life of a particular product line and can incorporate refinements to data structures, style templates, and processing scripts to account for content changes and the introduction of new content over time. Past engagements include:

• CD-ROM/Print revision services
• Print composition template/stylesheet design and development (XSLT; XSL-FO)
• Content model design and development (DTD; XML Schema);
• Data conversion services
• Software upgrade/migration services

Scientific/Technical/Medical (STM) Publishing Solutions
Newbook’s Scientific/Technical/Medical (STM) Publishing Solutions address the rigorous, highly specialized production and composition needs of journal publishers. Our STM solutions provide the leading technology in STM publishing, Arbortext 3B2, configured to meet your layout and publishing requirements, including:

• Design and development of effective style templates, complex search and replace functions, and time-saving automation scripts
• Capability for high-volume, high typographical quality automated processing
• Support for diverse input processing streams such as plain-text, XML or SGML, or TeX;
• A WYSIWYG editing capability, while ensuring structural validation (e.g. DTD compliance) throughout the production cycle, even for last minute changes
• Comprehensive math and equation support (MathML, LaTeX)
• Capability to handle the most complex table rendering requirements
• Support for changed-page service
• Capability to handle the most complex table rendering requirements

TPS Consulting & Management Services
Newbook can provide a variety of management consulting engagements to organizations that wish to transition from a desktop publishing paradigm to a more automated approach that uses structured data, or are in the early stages of implementing a new publishing system. These engagements allow organizations to benefit from the extensive experience of the Technical Publishing Solutions Practice and remain competitive in today's technical information marketplace. Engagements include:

• Education and Seminars
• Business Case Development
• Publishing System/Process Review & Assessment
• Strategic Planning
• Business, Technical or Document Analysis & Architecture Assessment
• Implementation Planning, Transition Planning
• Cost Benefits Analysis, Procurement Support, Project Management