Parallel processing
School books, technical textbooks, and all other publications featuring a large amount of charts and info boxes require considerable layout effort. In projects like these, the ability to work on text and visuals in parallel is a tremendous advantage. While authors, editors, and proofreaders are still writing and revising the text for each chapter, your layout people can begin loading these texts to the page layouts. If an editor changes an article, vjoon K4 automatically informs the layout person, who can then easily reload the revised article with a simple mouse click. This cuts down on time spent in editorial meetings and coordinative sessions. Another great feature for non-fiction books is that layouts can accommodate Excel tables. The system even lets the layout person know if the numbers change.
In contrast to newspapers and magazines, books tend to be longer-term projects, and their content and concept may evolve during the course of production. So when editors want to add or modify content later on down the line, the ability to access individual layout or text versions stored by vjoon K4 in the database can spare them a great deal of effort. vjoon K4 provides a precise versioning feature that ensures everyone with a stake in the project always works with the current version. This lets you easily create variants of any book to target specific audiences. In the USA, for example, school textbook publishers are compelled to adapt their books to the laws of each state. This is easily done with variants. A tailored book — a book-on-demand, if you will — is just a few clicks away.
