E-publishing services

e-Publishing Services Softsys Infotek Solutions, an e-Publishing company , undertake text documents, web based information articles, books etc, to complex manuals and structured financial and legal documents in e-publishing. Using our extensive expertise we have developed our own in-house processes which enable us to easily and efficiently replicate the original data or documents to an e-book.

Our dedicated electronic publishing department create the desired file output to maximize portability, versatility and the interactivity of electronic books enabling e-books to be read on a notebook, palm or desktop computer, tailored to suit the individual requirements of the reader. We create electronic books from hard copy source material including images/photos and graphic displays, and from all types of electronic formats for example: HTML, FrameMaker, Quark, MSWord and many other formats for many of the world's largest international publishers and organizations. The Prepress & e-Publishing Services from Softsys begins with the receiving manuscript and work specifications (Style Sheet) from the client.

The second stage is that of job discussion. The feasibility of the project undertaken and the complexity associated with it are accessed and platform on which the jobs is to be delivered are discussed during this stage. The manuscript and specifications are sent to our copy editor for Copy Editing. The Copy Editor is accountable for understanding the subject of the manuscript thoroughly and ensures that the content of the manuscript is correct and copy editors check the script for the grammatical and syntactically accuracy and finally script is readied with the required figures and diagrams. In case of any errors our QC Department will be notified and necessary corrections are made to the manuscript. The revisions are notified, in writing to the Production Department and final draft is sent to the author of the manuscript for approval.

Publisher's specifications and requirement are laid out in the form of a ‘Style Sheet'. The style sheet is prepared as required by the publisher or author and necessary procedures or steps are taken to implement the exact style as requested by the author. The style sheet requirement will be prepared parallel to copy editor's editing work of Manuscript and the specifications are finalized by our layout specialist.

The pictures are handed over to the scanning and graphics department to ensure quality of scanning for halftones line artwork and color artwork and the quality of relabeling and retouching the artworks are as per the requirements the artwork as per the requirements specified. The scanned, images are analyzed and the optimal settings such as sharpening and resolution and compression are chosen depending on the requirements of the job. The images are also accepted in any digital format from the authors itself and further improvements to be made are done.

The texts and contents are entered by operators. To ensure that the data being entered is 99% accurate they are verified by editors and Paginators receives the inputs such as approved Layout from the layout specialist and the scanned Pictures/images from the scanning and graphics Department. Paginators also ensure the layout of the content as per specifications given and paginate the entire material as per the specifications given and he place the figures and tables etc as per the content and incase of any discrepancy they are checked with layout specialist and proof readers for connections.

Typed contents are proof readed by proof readers to check for accuracy and to ensure that the delivered output exactly matches the requirements of the client. The responsibility of the proof readers is to ensure that the layout of the content is as per specifications in the style sheet. After completion of proof reading the contents are checked by our quality controllers before dispatching final output.