PUBLISHING RELATED SERVICES
A wide range of page design, pagination and typesetting services are provided by DTP LABS in all languages, including Asian, European, Middle Eastern, African, and Indic. We collaborate with several publishers worldwide and have established a solid reputation for dependability and quality. We handle projects of all shapes, sizes, formats and operating systems. We provide dedicated staff along with a single point of contact account manager. Majority of our staff members are certified specialists, having over 19 years of expertise and technological know-how. We follow strict quality assurance processes.
Here are some of the desktop publishing services we provide:
- Multilingual and/or single language typesetting/pagination/layout
- Co-edition (translated) layouts
- Metadata and OCR scanning services for archiving old books and journals
- Conversion of formats, including cross-platform conversion from PageMaker to QuarkXPress, InDesign, etc.
TYPESETTING/PAGE LAYOUT SERVICES
At DTP LABS, our DTP experts transform your ideas, text, and images into innovative, attention-grabbing, and contemporary documents that are ready for both print and web platforms.
Our tailored and dedicated services offer a complete range of solutions for publishers, online authors, print media, e-commerce retailers, magazines, newspapers, business organizations (ranging from small scale to large scale), and advertising agencies. Our production team is proficient in all composition software, adeptly working with:
- InDesign
- QuarkXPress
- PageMaker
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Corel Draw
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Visio
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe After Effects
- AutoCAD
- Interleaf/ Quicksilver
- MadCap Flare
We have proficiency in page layout, typesetting, formatting, and pagination (including page make-up) across the following categories:
- Books: Mathematical, Scientific, Technical, Fiction, Non-fiction, and Educational
- Journals: Technical, Mathematical, Scientific and Educational
- Magazines: all types
- Brochures
- User Guides and Manuals
- Technical & Shop Manuals
- Newsletters
- Multimedia and slide presentations
- Localizing and formatting various localized materials like brochures, business cards, newsletters, technical manuals, user guides and manuals, flyers and much more
- Developing cutting-edge templates and documents for a variety of online and print publication tasks.
- Creating precise text and layouts for books, newsletters, magazines, journals, comics (including manga), dictionaries, directories, and more.
- Producing business eBooks, brochures, and menus that adhere to the EPUB3 standard, ensuring a well-formatted and visually appealing layout on handheld devices.
- Additionally, we excel in formatting large print documents
We are well-versed in all typesetting techniques and have specialists who use the latest typesetting tools and software. Moreover, we are experts in transferring content between different file formats while preserving all layout data. Besides authors, our clientele also includes publishers and translation companies. Putting English and non-English text on the same page while respecting the subtle differences in typography is one of our specialties. At DTP LABS, we aim to produce error-free documents that maximize customer satisfaction. All our fonts, programs, graphics, and formatting are top-notch and set the industry standard. We work in all languages. We handle a wide range of varied problems, from phone directories to appliance manuals, but our primary concentration is on typesetting books and journals while maintaining the typography that our clients have grown to expect from us. We may build a layout from scratch using the typefaces of your choosing, or we can match or modify already-existing specs. It is like your very own team working at an offshore location, with at least 50% cost saving and no issues of headcount, recruitment, infrastructure management, employee insurance, etc.
Being in the Indian time zone, we work while you are sleeping. We also provide a time overlap with your office hours. A dedicated account manager will handle all communication with you. Payment can be made in full upon satisfactory receipt of our services. References can be provided on request.
OCR AND SCANNING
DTP LABS can transform your hard-copy manuscripts into digital, editable text. Using state-of-the-art hardware and software, your hard-copy manuscripts or scans are converted into a format of your choice (like searchable PDFs, Word, e-books), ready for rapid, organized and simple storage and retrieval.
If you simply wish to reprint or archive without making any changes, we can scan at high resolution and deliver the output in a print-ready format. We also address any ‘crooked’ pages to guarantee that the new manuscript is perfectly aligned and not skewed.
We also clean-up the pages by getting rid of any dust particles. We can also generate searchable PDFs containing background-hidden text, enabling the text to show up in searches.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology provides a quick way to enter data. However, depending on factors like paper quality, font size, and font type, the accuracy may vary. Therefore, we perform thorough proofreading of the document to eliminate any OCR issues. Utilizing the method described above for conversion ensures greater accuracy and efficiency compared to simple keystroke data input. Additionally, we are skilled in XML/SGML coding, and we can tag the OCR result to meet your specifications.
In a nutshell, we provide a full range of digital conversion services, including imaging, to leading publishers, academic institutions, financial institutions, government agencies, and major corporations. To meet your e-publishing and e-content needs comprehensively, we convert paper, microfilm, and early-generation electronic content into digital data.
REPROGRAPHY
The DTP LABS production team has extensive image editing experience and has colour corrected over 1 million images.
Our service offerings include:
- Raw Conversion
- JPEG Color Correction
- Culling Services (editing unwanted images)
- Categorizing/Indexing
- Renumbering/Renaming the images
- Artistic Edits
All reprographic requests will be assessed by our team, and then we will provide a fixed price based on the amount of effort required. Upon confirmation, we will proceed to process the files and deliver the processed documents.
We want you to focus on the shoot and hand off the post-production headaches to us. We love doing it!