Usecases for Produce & Publish
The Produce & Publish components cover a wide range of use cases in the field of electronic publishin
Text-oriented publications
Produce & Publish supports the traditional usecases for publishing content in a perfect way. Automatic typesetting in a high quality is the key functionality of the Produce & Publish platfom. It can be used for book productions, manuals, various kinds of documentation or even journals. The typesetting features and the quality of the output are comparable to TeX. However Produce & Publish uses well-known standards like HTML/XML as content sources and CSS for any kind of styling.
Typesetting features of the Produce & Publish platform
- high-quality PDF production
- absolute positioning of blocks
- stylesheets
- tables (including tables in landscape mode)
- images (CMYK, RGB) + image captions
- Truetype and Openfont support
- high-quality hyphenation support (in various languages)
- page floats
- crop marks
- footnotes
- multi-column support
- marginal notes
- automatic table of contents
- cover pages
- full unicode support
- left-to-right, right-to-left support
Data-driven publishing & multi-source publishing
Business applications often have the need to produce documents with dynamic data that changes from time to time. For example a company database might contain informations on products and their prices and it is a regular task to provide customers with an updated price list. The Produce & Publish platform provides an open API for aggregating content from various data sources and processing the data in order to feed the data into a document template used for the generation of the output PDF document.
Content aggregation and processing can either be implemented on the application level or using the Python programming language on the Produce & Publish platform. This kind of business integration is usually very specific to a particular business or usecase and requires integration work.
