XyEnterprise XPP customers have chosen the most powerful batch pagination system available. Nothing rivals its flexibility, automation, and integration capabilities. But all this power comes with a complexity that requires significant training before you begin seeing the return on investment. DMSi XPP consultants are professionals who have hands on expertise in effectively and efficiently integrating and implementing XPP -- developing styles to automate pagination, processing scripts to automate production, and translation programs to automate conversion. The result is a much faster ROI, a system optimized to take advantage of the software capabilities, and a customized training program to teach your staff how to maintain and implement new styles.

 Automatic Management of Loose-Leaf Updates

To manage the requirements of publishing for both print and electronic distribution several companies have developed large SGML or XML databases. A challenge for many publishers, however, is managing the loose-leaf update page process for a publication when changes are made to the SGML database.

Many publishers have turned to XyEnterprise’s XML Professional Publisher (XPP) Auto Loose-leaf software to meet the print update requirements of their products. Changes made in an external XML or SGML database must be updated into composed XPP pages and new overflow pages; pages that do not change need to be left frozen and untouched. The update process must also be automated and tracked.

To provide the glue between the external database and the XPP Auto Loose-leaf application, DMSi developed Remote Interface for Paginating Loose-leaf Updates (RIPL). RIPL provides the automation controls needed for an external database to independently manage an auto loose-leaf update process. In a typical auto loose-leaf workflow, RIPL validates the process request and manages the hand-off between each component of the update process including data conversion, replacing, composing and printing update pages, adding change bars, tracking approved updates and creating a List of Effective Pages. RIPL keeps track of the update process by maintaining a log file—important information for a busy production environment. RIPL automates the XPP loose-leaf update process—greatly reducing errors and the time required for creating and distributing update pages.

Several DMSi clients have included RIPL in their loose-leaf document management workflow. RIPL manages proven software tools—it was developed with the knowledge of real-life production experiences in paginating loose-leaf updates with XPP Auto Loose-leaf software. RIPL was designed to be flexible, and to be easily integrated into any XPP Auto Loose-leaf environment.