Prepress, Pre-media and Composition Services

Prepress and Pre-media from the Experts
Apex’s XML-based prepress system unifies important print and electronic publishing processes. We are renowned for our expertise in electronic workflows, from editing to composition to data conversion and multisource, multiproduct workflows. Frequently, we will build specific QA processes and tools to address the needs of your specific project. For over a decade, we have worked with and created scores of very specific and complex DTDs, as well as all leading standard DTDs. Our methodology:

• Eliminates the cost of converting print products to electronic products
• Allows simultaneous print and electronic publication (as well as “publish before print”)
• Reduces the combined cost of print and electronic publication

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Extensive Typographic Experience
Because of our extensive typographic experience and broad range of technologies, Apex clients have trusted us with some of their most complex and mission-critical work. Our expertise enables us to create templates and stylesheets for anything from a single small monograph to a large series to a complex reference work.

• We supply rich XML and complex typography for dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference content
• STM journals, monographs and books
• Legal content
• Foreign language and non-roman character text

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Manage Complex Artwork
Apex has extensive experience in the management of large projects with extensive art programs such as contributed volumes involving text and art from hundreds of authors. Other services include

• Plate section creation
• Quality assurance checks of artwork
• Origination and adjustment of illustrations and drawings
• Scanning, modification and rendering of artwork
• Incorporation of illustrations into typeset pages
• Certified PDF files to suit printer requirements

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Outputs to Satisfy Your Project Requirements
Apex designs flexible workflow in order to handle and deliver a wide range of formats. We can deliver almost any data format for print or electronic publication. Our most common deliverables combine Print PDFs, Web PDFs and XML. We also offer a wide variety of other formats such as NLM XML, HighWire SGML, APA SGML, OEB PS, XHTML, SPL XML, TEI, DocBook, and other standards.