IGP:Document Designer
Design Freedom. XML Power
IGP:Document Designer is a breakthrough in XML publishing and brings the flexibility of desktop application document and book design IGP:FLIP (Front List Interactive Publishing) to advanced XML content in a powerful collaborative environment.
Introduction to IGP:Document Designer
Changing XML Publishing
IGP:Document Designer is a breakthrough in XML publishing and brings the flexibility of desktop application document and book design IGP:FLIP (Front List Interactive Publishing). The easy to use, what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) interface makes sophisticated book design available to a wide range of users.
Because it is an online application, it can be accessed by authorized users from anywhere. Design and review can be carried out even before manuscript preparation is complete. IGP:Document Designer means every book or document produced from IGP:FoundationXHTML can have different designs breaking the rigidity of XML template systems.
Benefits
Any number of book designs from a single XML source and single master template, instantly.
Visual WYSIWIG interface. See your design decisions instantly reflect in the interface in real time.
Because it starts from one master template, every book or document produced can have its own distinctive design characteristics.
Page Extent Calculator. The built in PEC give highly accurate page count for any specific design. Change your design and see the page count change.
Design preview PDF. Create a design PDF and specification for review and authorization by interested parties.
Create standard and large print versions of your PDFs, each with their own design and typography, while still producing e-books, online, package and content object versions.
Fully integrated into IGP:FLIP. No need to have XML/CSS experts maintaining complex templates and transformation processes.
XML strategies instantly become easy, affordable and non-threatening as your current flexibility and design standards are all available in an XML production environment.
Features
Page Make up. Page size, margins-left and right or inner and outer, bodytext base font-family, font-size, page line count.
Flow: hyphenation on/off, Widow/orphan.
Headers, footers and folios. Assignable patterns and content.
Section styles. All frontmatter, body and backmatter sections. Frontmatter
Openers. Part, Chapter - change font, alignment, position and size for: number, title, sub-title, author, contributor
Drop and Raised Caps. Multiline drop caps and raised caps with typographical correct of run-ins.
Lists. Ordered, unordered and simple lists...
Block styles. extracts, letters, poetry, figure, illustration and many more...
