PRE-PRESS SERVICES
DNC offers a full range of pre-press production services to help clients publish Books, Journals and Technical documents in both print and electronic media. DNC provides these services to industry-leading publishers and maintains a team of skilled production specialist's equipped with proprietary tools and systems.
- Page composition and typesetting
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TEX and LATE X
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Scanning
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Copy Editing Services
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Electronic Proofing System
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Double Capture System
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Document dispatch by client
Page composition and typesetting
DNC Pre-Press Services delivers a full range of composition services, including typesetting and production of PostScript or PDF files for print or electronic media. DNC also delivers graphic files and PDF files, with bookmarks and links, for delivery in online environments. We are experienced in a broad range of content and layout complexities. Our experienced team has worked with formats, fonts, and special characters required in a variety of fields like Mathematics, Bio-Chemistry, Medicine, Etc. We use tools such as MathML, TeX, LaTeX and ChemDraw for rendering complex content.
TEX and LATEX
For STM and Academic publishers and Universities, TeX is the best available medium of digitizing text data compared to other software's. This is more relevant when TeX has formidable capabilities in handling math equations and formulae. TeX offers the versatility of being platform-independent. We specialize in high quality typesetting and composing of scientific, technical and medical books as well as journals. We use TeX as our typesetting system and we are specialized in handling heavy complex mathematical composition. We can work from author prepared TeX, LaTeX files by using client-provided style/class files; alternatively, we can develop LaTeX class files based on your composition specifications.
We have in-house experts of vast experience in scientific composition and our production set-up with LaTeX2e is a high speed and versatile auto-pagination and conversion system that can paginate from SGML/XML source files. We can undertake a variety of document preparation operations: Hard copy (Manuscripts) supplied by the author Electronic file supplied by the author irrespective of its native format Redrawing the graphic part of the author documents, if they are not of CRC quality Copy-editing and proofing Varieties of outputs offered are:
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PostScript
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Portable Document Format
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Standard Generalized Markup Language
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Extensible Markup Language
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Mathematical Markup Language
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Hypertext Markup Language
Scanning
High end Flat bed Scanners for scanning line art, transparencies, b/w and colour halftones either from bromides or slides (negatives or positives) with high resolution. We offer a comprehensive range of scanning solutions for line illustrations, half-tones, image-editing, color correction, etc.
Copy Editing Services
DNC copyedits materials in various disciplines like: Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Economics, Pharmacology, Finance, Marketing, Information Technology, Engineering, and Physics. Our staff consists of well-educated, English-speaking top graduates from various reputed universities.
Electronic Proofing System
DNC has devised a unique electronic proofing system 'EzProofs', which reduces time and cost of production. DNC supplies it's client with a tool which allows them to do online proofing which eliminates the need of sending print outs for proofing purposes. This facilitates quick and accurate proofing of the manuscripts.
Double Capture System
Double capture method is adopted for the generation of electronic file from author supplied hard copy (Manuscripts). Two electronic files are made by two operators of the same document and online comparison is made between these two versions so that the computer will point out the mismatches which are corrected in consultation with the author's manuscript. So the first galley proof sent to the author will be 99.995% error free.
Document dispatch by client
The client can dispatch document either through Internet by scanning the hardcopy and sending as a PDF file or tiff image files, though PDF is much preferred or they can courier the documents, if the delivery schedules can tolerate the delays involved. A variety of archiving formats like *.tar, *.zip, *.gz, *.arj, *.lhz, *.tgz, etc., are all acceptable to us. Alternatively, the client can dump the archive at our ftp site so that we can access the files immediately. Document delivery: In the same way shown above, perfected documents can be delivered to the client. DNC has access to high speed internet connection.
