Prepress Services
Project management solutions for Books/Journals including XML workflow
Multilingual Typesetting
Typesetting (Indesign, Word Pagination, 3B2, Quark, etc.,)
Indexing
Copyediting
Quality Control
Artwork/Illustrations processing
The project management solutions provided by EWDS are best described as a creative amalgamation of sophisticated technology and high quality resources. We do Full Service Management covering the stages from copyediting to delivery of the printer file by doing the Publisher and author management services. Offering a vast assortment of services under project management solutions, we fulfill all your business requirements in time and at a competitive cost structure. Our prompt and clear communication and customer relationship management with leading publishers, detail-oriented processing and adaptability sets us apart. We provide cast-off details as well as schedules for every process to the publisher once we check the manuscript, electronic copy as well as the artwork quality. Our project managers, production team leaders and customer service personnel aim to work towards meeting the job-specific demands of the clients, organizing and directing the work flow through the various stages of production. Most of our processes are automated through the communication infrastructure that we have built, which is matchless in the industry with hi-tech video conferencing facilities and interactive production tracking models.
EWDS handles end to end Multilingual Typesetting work for the leading clients in the industry. We have experts in foreign languages which is our strength to understand the terminologies and instructions given by the client and handle the projects in an effective manner.
Our experience and expertise in providing professional solutions has made us who we are today. Our skilled typesetters are experts at composing crisp and clean layouts with an outstanding ability to deliver your message clearly to the reader. We follow both conventional as well as innovative typesetting methods, giving you a wide range of options to choose the one best suited for your business. We are dedicated to persistently work at providing quality solutions to our clients in order to boost their business performance through advanced technology.
EWDS handles a wide range of books and journals from low complexity pagination levels to heavy complexity free style design projects. We have the capability to work on all the latest software used for typesetting needs while we also can work on any customer-specified product if suitable for the project. Our visual designers are committed to providing a creative, customized and cost-effective online-offline solution that would complement your brand identity in the market.
When page proofs of a publication are ready, we meticulously compile a map of the content to create a useful tool for the reader. Beginning with a computer-generated concordance, we group similar concepts and apply other intellectual analysis such as cross-referencing, then edit the index for structure, clarity and consistency and format it to your specifications.
Our indexing services are provided by subject matter experts, who have a vast knowledge on creating professional indexes. We always maintain a liaison with the author to meet personalized indexing needs. In case if you recommend an appropriate freelance indexer for any specific subject or domain, we build a good rapport and work as a team with them.
EWDS has a highly qualified and experienced team of copy editors who examine your document for grammar, conciseness, repetition, shifts in tone/voice and appropriate citation style, ensuring that the message in your document is direct and meaningful. We check for the factual correctness of your material and create an error-free document. We also prepare a style sheet for you on request. We have software engineers working on creating newer methods for the automation of copyediting processes, to speed up time and accuracy by many times.
Our editors are from various fields of interest with a very good command over the language. We recruit only post graduates with experience in writing for print and the web. This has brought us great success internationally with clients who look for oomph in their presentation. We are very competent in terms of turn-around time and have a strong track record of implementing corporate social responsibility.
Our experts will technically ensure the quality level of the document for errors (structural and language-based), incorporating author corrections, reading through at proof stages for typographical errors and ensure consistency. Quality checking and control depends on each project's specifications. The quality control process includes input and in-process inspections, sampling verifications, error analysis, corrective action, preventive action and final inspection.
We validate the material through our skilled and experienced audit team. Any externally processed content can be brought to us and we will help check its integrity for you using sophisticated QC tools and processes. This ensures there are no errors in the final output. We deliver the final content in the form of PDFs, XML or HTML to our clients.
Graphics are the platform on which your communication is based on. Any message is best conveyed when built on eye-catching artwork. With an experienced and adeptly skilled team of graphic designers, we are very confident with this production to help you realize the true potential of your business. We produce efficient and stylish business graphics and animation from raw business data. The creative output of our designers is out of the box. Our artwork services also include graphic reproduction and redrawing, resizing, grayscale/ color line arts & half tone scanning, color corrections, retouching, rendering, animations, digital proofing and disk conversions. Our experts make conversions from structured MSS to XML/PageMaker and Quark files to Indesign CS3.
The graphic designing and multimedia skills of our team working for both print and web are comprehensive. We are proficient at all the latest design software including but not limited to adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Matlab and Chemlab. EWDS has designed cover pages and illustrations for books and journals and leading magazines, including figurative tables and graphs for scientific content. We also assist publishers by providing easy to use templates, built-in images and production specs.