Pages that hold their shape, from first proof to final print.
Monographs, textbooks, journals, edited volumes and courseware, composed to your template in InDesign, LaTeX or 3B2 — and rebuilt without complaint when the author sends twelve more pages.
The work
Typesetting & composition
at Vivlio.
InDesignLaTeX3B2 / APPQuarkXPressPDF/X-1aPDF/X-4MathML 3Right-to-left scripts
Typesetting is where a publisher's house style stops being a document and starts being a book. Get it right and nobody notices. Get it wrong and every reviewer notices at once.
We rebuild your specification as a working template — grids, running heads, note styles, table treatments, maths settings, the lot — and then hold every page in your list to it. Because the same team stays with your titles, the template gets sharper over a season rather than being relearned every time.
What you get
Six things included
in every job.
Composition to your template
Grids, baselines, running heads, folios, part and chapter openers, note and reference styles all built from your style sheet and signed off before production.
Complex maths, set properly
Display and inline equations set in LaTeX or MathType, carried through to MathML for XML and ePub so the maths survives every output.
Tables that behave
Wide tables, landscape tables, straddle heads, footnoted tables and multi-page continuations handled without breaking the grid.
Figures placed, not dropped
Artwork sized, positioned and captioned against the text it belongs to, with the figure list reconciled at proof stage.
Corrections handled cleanly
Author corrections and proof rounds come back with a marked-up PDF showing exactly what changed, so nothing has to be hunted for.
Every output from one file
Print PDF/X, low-res proof PDFs, XML and ePub generated from the same composed source, so they can never drift apart.
Specification
The detail your
production team
will want to see.
Need something not listed? Ask. Most of what is missing here we have done for someone already.
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Software
Adobe InDesign, LaTeX and pdfLaTeX, Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (3B2), QuarkXPress
2
Print output
PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-4, press-ready CMYK, spot colour, bleed and trim marks to your printer's spec
3
Proof output
Low-resolution watermarked PDFs, annotated correction PDFs, first and second revise sets
4
Content types
Monographs, textbooks, journal issues, edited volumes, conference proceedings, reports, courseware, workbooks
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Maths
LaTeX, MathType, MathML 3, chemistry structures, numbered equation systems
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Scripts
Latin, Tamil, Devanagari, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati, Arabic and Urdu (right-to-left)
